Chapter 5

Question 1

What does salutary neglect mean?

Answer 1

Not strictly enforcing most laws

Question 2

What three things lead to individualism being strong in the colonies?

Answer 2

Colonies basically made own laws
More landowners in colonies than England
Salutary neglect

Question 3

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

Answer 3

To pay for the debt of the French and Indian war

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Smuggling

Question 5

How was the Sugar Act supposed to stop smuggling?

Answer 5

Lowered tax on molasses to convince people to stop smuggling.

Question 6

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

Answer 6

In the act British officers were allowed to seize goods from smugglers without going to court “ “Innocent till proven guilty”

Question 7

What was the Stamp Act?

Answer 7

Placed tax on almost all printed material

Printed materials couldn’t be sold without stamp

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Patrick Henry

Question 9

What was the purpose of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 9

Secret society formed to protect rights of colonists and fight taxation.

Question 10

Who was the founder of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 10

Sam Adams

Question 11

What was important about the Declaratory Act?

Answer 11

England could tax as they saw fit, but stamp act was ended.

Question 12

What was important about the Townshend Acts?

Answer 12

The taxed imported goods before they arrived in colonies

Question 13

Who owned the ship Liberty?

Answer 13

John Hancock

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by colonies

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Boston Massacre

Question 16

What is information designed to influence opinion?

Answer 16

Propaganda

Question 17

How many people were killed at the Boston Massacre?

Answer 17

5 people

Question 18

What Acts were repealed due to the Boston Massacre?

Answer 18

Townshend Acts

Question 19

What occurs when only one company controls a product?

Answer 19

Monopoly

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Boston Tea Party

Question 21

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

Answer 21

British empire

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Intolerable Acts

Question 23

Were the Coercive Acts successful in isolating Boston?

Answer 23

No, other parts of the colonies sent them supplies.

Question 24

What is the name of the best militias in Massachusetts?

Answer 24

Minute men

Question 25

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

Answer 25

"The regulars are coming."

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Battle at Lexington

Question 27

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

Answer 27

William Prescott | "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."

Question 28

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

Answer 28

The Americans wouldn't be easy or quick to defeat

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Loyalist- colonists for British

Question 30

Who headed up the first post office in America?

Answer 30

Benjamin Franklin

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Continental Army.

Question 32

What pamphlet did Thomas Paine write?

Answer 32

Common Sense

Question 33

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

Answer 33

From tyrants and persecution

Question 34

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 34

Thomas Jefferson

Question 35

What day was the Declaration of Independence accepted/approved?

Answer 35

July 4th, 1776

Question 36

What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 36

Explain why the colonies chose to form a new nation.

Question 37

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

Answer 37

John Hancock

Question 38

What is the introduction of the Declaration of Independence called?

Answer 38

Preamble

Question 39

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

Answer 39

True

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Liberty Bell

Question 41

Who were determined to fight the British until independence is gained?

Answer 41

Patriots