Chapter 5

Question 1

What does salutary neglect mean?

Answer 1

They did not enforce laws.

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Great Britain did not enforce laws, the colonies made their own laws, and there were many more landowners in the colonies than in England.

Question 3

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

Answer 3

To pay for their war debts accumulated from 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

It lowered tax on molasses to influence people in the colonies to stop smuggling.

Question 6

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

Answer 6

If the guards found any illegal items they were instantly taken away.

Question 7

What was the Stamp Act?

Answer 7

A law that put a tax on all printed material in the colonies.

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Patrick Henerey

Question 9

What was the purpose of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 9

A secret society formed to protect the rights of the colonies.

Question 10

Who was the founder of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 10

Samuel Adams

Question 11

What was important about the Declaratory Act?

Answer 11

Stated that England had the right to tax the colonies.

Question 12

What was important about the Townshend Acts?

Answer 12

They taxed the goods before they went to the 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 that the colonies house British soldiers in barracks and even in their own homes.

Question 15

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

Answer 15

The 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What Acts were repealed due to the Boston Massacre?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

The Townshend acts

Question 19

What occurs when only one company controls a product?

Answer 19

A monopoly

Question 20

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

Answer 20

The 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

The British Empire

Question 22

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

Answer 22

The coercive acts that closed the Boston harbor

Question 23

Were the Coercive Acts successful in isolating Boston?

Answer 23

No

Question 24

What is the name of the best militias in Massachusetts?

Answer 24

The minutemen

Question 25

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

Answer 25

"The regulars are coming out."

Question 26

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

Answer 26

The battle of Lexington

Question 27

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

Answer 27

William Prescott said," 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

That defeating the Americans would not be quick or easy

Question 29

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

Answer 29

The loyalists

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Patriots

Question 31

Who headed up the first post office in America?

Answer 31

Benjamin Franklin

Question 32

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

Answer 32

The first continental army

Question 33

What pamphlet did Thomas Paine write?

Answer 33

Common Sense

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Tyrants and persecution

Question 35

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 35

Thomas Jefferson

Question 36

What day was the Declaration of Independence accepted/approved?

Answer 36

July 4, 1776

Question 37

What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 37

It was written to tell England that they were fighting so that they could become their own country

Question 38

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

Answer 38

John Hancock

Question 39

What is the introduction of the Declaration of Independence called?

Answer 39

The preamble

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Yes

Question 41

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

Answer 41

The Liberty bell