Chapter 5 Study Guide

Question 1

What was the Stamp Act?

Answer 1

A Tax on Almost All Printed Material in the Colonies (newspapers, pamplets, playing cards, etc.)

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Smuggling

Question 3

What was the purpose of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 3

To Protect the Rights of the Colonists and Fight Taxation by the British

Question 4

How was the Sugar Act supposed to stop smuggling?

Answer 4

It Lowered 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

It Took Away the Right “Inoccent Until Proven Guilty”

Question 6

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

Answer 6

To Pay off Their Debt From the French and Indian (Seven Years) War

Question 7

What was important about the Townshend Acts?

Answer 7

Taxed Imported Goods Befire They Arrived in the Colonies

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Patrick Henry

Question 9

Who was the founder of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 9

Sam Adams

Question 10

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

Answer 10

They had to House British Soldiers in Barracks Provided by the Colonies

Question 11

What was important about the Declaratory Act?

Answer 11

Stated That England had the Right to Tax the Colonies in All Cases

Question 12

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

Answer 12

The Boston Massacure

Question 13

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

Answer 13

The Intolerable/Coercive Acts

Question 14

Who owned the ship Liberty?

Answer 14

John Hancock

Question 15

What Acts were repealed due to the Boston Massacre?

Answer 15

The Townshed Acts

Question 16

What occurs when only one company controls a product?

Answer 16

A Monopoly

Question 17

What is information designed to influence opinion?

Answer 17

Propaganda

Question 18

How many people were killed at the Boston Massacre?

Answer 18

5

Question 19

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

Answer 19

The Boston Tea Party

Question 20

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

Answer 20

The Battle of Lexington

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

Were the Coercive Acts successful in isolating Boston?

Answer 22

No, the Other Colonies Sent Food and Clothing to Help Them

Question 23

What is the name of the best militias in Massachusetts?

Answer 23

Minutemen

Question 24

What is the introduction of the Declaration of Independence called?

Answer 24

The Preamble

Question 25

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

Answer 25

"The Regulars Are Coming Out!"

Question 26

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

Answer 26

William Prescott

Question 27

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

Answer 27

It Showed Them That Defeating the Americans Wouldn't be Quick or Easy

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Patriots

Question 29

What pamphlet did Thomas Paine write?

Answer 29

"Common Sense"

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Loyalist

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Yes

Question 33

What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 33

To Explain to Britian Why the Colonies Chose to Form a New Nation

Question 34

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

Answer 34

British Taxes, Sugar Act, and Stamp Act

Question 35

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

Answer 35

The Liberty Bell

Question 36

Who headed up the first post office in America?

Answer 36

Benjamin Franklin

Question 37

What day was the Declaration of Independence accepted/approved?

Answer 37

July 4, 1776

Question 38

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

Answer 38

John Hancock

Question 39

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

Answer 39

The Continental Army

Question 41

What does salutary neglect mean?

Answer 41

Not Strictly Enforcing Laws

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Tyrants and Persecution

Question 41

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 41

Thomas Jefferson