Chapter 5 Study Guide

Question 1

How was the Sugar Act supposed to stop smuggling?

Answer 1

Lowered the tax on molasses

Question 2

What was the Stamp Act?

Answer 2

Placed a tax on almost all printed material in the colonies

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Patrick Henry

Question 4

What was the purpose of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 4

Was a secret society formed to protect the rights of the colonists and fight taxation by the British

Question 5

Who was the founder of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 5

Samuel Adams

Question 6

What was important about the Declaratory Act?

Answer 6

Stated that England had the right to tax the colonies in all cases

Question 7

What was important about the Townshend Acts?

Answer 7

Taxed imported goods before they arrived in the colonies

Question 8

Who owned the ship Liberty?

Answer 8

John Hancock

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Smuggling

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks

Question 11

What is information designed to influence opinion?

Answer 11

The Boston massacre was used successfully as a form of proganda

Question 12

How many people were killed at the Boston Massacre?

Answer 12

5 people

Question 13

What Acts were repealed due to the Boston Massacre?

Answer 13

Townshend Acts

Question 14

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

Answer 14

British Empire

Question 15

Were the Coercive Acts successful in isolating Boston?

Answer 15

No

Question 16

What is the name of the best militias in Massachusetts?

Answer 16

Minuteman

Question 17

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

Answer 17

“The Regulars Are Coming Out!”

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Showed the British that defeating the Americans wouldn’t be quick or easy

Question 19

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

Answer 19

To help pay off these war debts

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Loyalists (Tories)

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Patriots (Rebels)

Question 22

Who headed up the first post office in America?

Answer 22

Benjamin Franklin

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Continental Army

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Yes

Question 25

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

Answer 25

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

Question 26

What pamphlet did Thomas Paine write?

Answer 26

Common Sense

Question 27

What day was the Declaration of Independence accepted/approved?

Answer 27

July 4, 1776

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Lexington

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Tyrants and persecution

Question 30

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 30

Thomas Jefferson

Question 31

What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 31

Was to explain why the colonies chose to form a new nation

Question 32

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

Answer 32

John Hancock

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Intolerable Acts

Question 34

What is the introduction of the Declaration of Independence called?

Answer 34

The Preamble

Question 35

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

Answer 35

The Liberty's Bell

Question 36

What does salutary neglect mean?

Answer 36

Not strictly enforcing most laws

Question 37

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

Answer 37

British taxes, Sugar Act, and Stamp Act

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Took away the right innocent until proven guilty

Question 39

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

Answer 39

The Boston Massacre

Question 40

What occurs when only one company controls a product?

Answer 40

Monopoly

Question 41

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

Answer 41

The Boston Tea Party