Chapter 6 Terms

Question 1

Boston Massacre

Answer 1

Incident between an angry colonial mob and British troops in Boston in which several colonists were killed or wounded

Question 2

Committee on Correspondance

Answer 2

Organized in the colonies to keep people informed and to publish American views abroad

Question 3

Boston Tea Party

Answer 3

Several colonists disguised as Indians dumped British tea into the Boston Harbor to protest the tea tax

Question 4

Quartering Act

Answer 4

Made it legal for British officials to quarter British soldiers in occupied buildings

Question 5

Boston Port Bill

Answer 5

Closed the port of Boston to all commerce

Question 6

Intolerance Acts

Answer 6

Acts imposed by Britain in response to the Boston Tea Party

Question 7

Quebec Act

Answer 7

Canceled all colonial claims to western lands and made Catholicism the official religion of Quebec

Question 8

First Continental Congress

Answer 8

Meeting of the colonial delegates in Philadelphia in 1774

Question 9

Declaration and Resolves

Answer 9

History’s most important human statement of political principles, declared the colonies to be independent of Britain

Question 10

Minutemen

Answer 10

Colonial militia who could be “ready in a minute” to fight the British

Question 11

War for Independence

Answer 11

1775-1783

Also called Revolutionary War, war between Britain and the American colonies, American victory

Question 12

Second Continental Congress

Answer 12

Meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia in 1775

Question 13

Olive Branch Petition

Answer 13

Attempt by Second Continental Congress to avoid any further conflict with Britain

Question 14

Hessians

Answer 14

German mercenaries hired by George III to fight for Britain

Question 15

Prohibitory Act

Answer 15

Act of Parliament (1775) which removed British protection from the colonies

Question 16

Common Sense

Answer 16

Pamphlet by Thomas Paine detailing English liberties and the abuses of the monarchy and Parliament

Question 17

Declaration of Independence

Answer 17

History’s most important human statement of political principles, declared the colonies to be independent of Britain

Question 18

Loyalists

Answer 18

Colonists who remained loyal to the king and opposed the War for Independence, also called Tories

Question 19

Privateers

Answer 19

Private vessels commissioned by the Congress or the state governments for use in the war

Question 20

Townshend Acts

Answer 20

Acts imposed on the colonies by Charles Townshend to raise money for the English treasury

Question 21

Treaty of Paris

Answer 21

Ended the War for Independence (1783), recognized the colonies as free and independent states