Chapter 5

Question 1

What does salutary neglect mean?

Answer 1

Not strictly enforcing most laws

Question 2

Why did England place a number of taxes (acts) against the colonists?

Answer 2

The colonies basically made their own laws and acted very independent

Question 3

What is importing or exporting without paying proper taxes on goods? (Also GB’s top priority in the colonies at
this time

Answer 3

Stopping cononial smuggling a top pritory

Question 4

How was the Sugar Act supposed to stop smuggling?

Answer 4

Lowered the tax on molasses to try and convince people to stop smuggling

Question 5

What was the problem for the colonists with the Sugar Act? (What British law was contradicted?)

Answer 5

The British offers were allowed to seize goods from smugglers without going to the county

Question 6

What was the Stamp Act?

Answer 6

The stamp act placed a tax on almost all printed material in the colonies

Question 7

Who persuaded the House of Burgesses to take action against the Stamp Act?

Answer 7

Patrick Henry

Question 8

What was the purpose of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 8

A secret society formed to protect the rights of the colonists and fight taxation by the British and was founded by Samuel Adams

Question 9

Who was the founder of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 9

Samuel Adams

Question 10

What was important about the Declaratory Act?

Answer 10

That England had the right to tax the colonies in all cases

Question 11

What was important about the Townshend Acts?

Answer 11

Important good before they arrived in the colonies

Question 12

Who owned the ship Liberty?

Answer 12

John handcock

Question 13

What was required of colonial citizens when the Quartering Act was passed

Answer 13

Required the colonies to house soldiers in barracks provided by colonies

Question 14

What event did the Colonists use as an example of propaganda?

Answer 14

Boston massacre

Question 15

What is information designed to influence opinion?

Answer 15

Propaganda

Question 16

How many people were killed at the Boston Massacre?

Answer 16

5 people

Question 17

What Acts were repealed due to the Boston Massacre?

Answer 17

Townsend acts

Question 18

What occurs when only one company controls a product?

Answer 18

Monopoly

Question 19

What event was a response to the Tea Act of 1773?

Answer 19

Boston tea party

Question 20

During the time of the Boston Tea Party most colonists considered themselves to be part of what empire?

Answer 20

British empire

Question 21

As a punishment for the Boston Tea Party, what did King George III impose upon Massachusetts?

Answer 21

Intolerable acts

Question 22

Were the Coercive Acts successful in isolating Boston?

Answer 22

No other parts of the colonies sent them supplies

Question 23

What is the name of the best militias in Massachusetts?

Answer 23

Minute men

Question 24

What did Paul Revere shout to warn the colonists of an impending attack?

Answer 24

The regulars are coming

Question 25

What battle featured the “shot heard ‘round the world”?

Answer 25

Battle at Lexington

Question 26

Who was under command of the colonial troops at Bunker Hill and what was his famous quote?

Answer 26

Willam Prescott don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes

Question 27

What did the British find out after the Battle of Bunker Hill?

Answer 27

Defeating the Americans wouldn't be easy or quick to defeat

Question 28

Who were people who considered the unfair taxes upon the colonies not good reasons to rebel?

Answer 28

Loyalist-colonists for British

Question 29

Who headed up the first post office in America?

Answer 29

Benjamin Franklin

Question 30

What was created by the Second Continental Congress to better organize military efforts?

Answer 30

Continental Army

Question 31

What pamphlet did Thomas Paine write?

Answer 31

Common sense

Question 32

What does Paine believe the colonies should be a refuge from?

Answer 32

From tyrants and persecution

Question 33

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 33

Thomas Jefferson

Question 34

What day was the Declaration of Independence accepted/approved?

Answer 34

July 4th,1776

Question 35

What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 35

Explain why the colonies chose a new nation

Question 36

Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 36

John Hancock

Question 37

What is the introduction of the Declaration of Independence called?

Answer 37

Preamble

Question 38

Did the Declaration of Independence explain why the colonies chose to form a new nation?

Answer 38

Yes/true

Question 39

What was rung on July 8, 1776 at the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 39

Liberty bell