Revolutionary War

Question 1

Mercantilism

Answer 1

practice employed by the British in which raw goods traded from the colonies where they were then manufactured into a finished product

Question 2

Taxation without Representation

Answer 2

colonists had no representatives in the Parliament to either pass or object these taxes, leading to uprising

Question 3

Salutary Neglect

Answer 3

Britain ignores any rules or regulations they designed for the colonies. They did not enforce any of these rules for many years.

Question 4

What is are examples of Salutary Neglect?

Answer 4

the Navigation Acts and Deliberate Property

Question 5

What were the Navigation Acts?

Answer 5

designed to regulate colonial trade

Question 6

What was the Stamp Act?

Answer 6

it was an act passed by the parliament in which taxed legal documents, newspapers, and letters

Question 7

What was the Sugar Act?

Answer 7

it was an act passed by the parliament in which taxed molasses, sugar, wine, coffee, cambric, and calico.

Question 8

What was the Quartering Act?

Answer 8

the act in which forced colonists to house British soldiers

Question 9

What was the Tea Act?

Answer 9

the act in which taxed tea at a high rate.

Question 10

What were the Intolerable and Coercive Acts?

Answer 10

the acts in which punished the colonists due to the Boston Tea Party. EX. Quartering, Massachusetts Bay Regulating (No more self-government), Boston Port Act (closing of ports), etc.

Question 11

When was the Stamp Act passed?

Answer 11

1765

Question 12

When was the Sugar Act passed?

Answer 12

1764

Question 13

What were the Townshend Acts?

Answer 13

A series of acts passed meant to tax the colonist’s basic necessities: glass, lead. paints, and paper.

Question 14

When were the Townshend Acts passed?

Answer 14

1767

Question 15

When was the Quartering Act passed?

Answer 15

1765

Question 16

When was the Tea Act passed?

Answer 16

1773

Question 17

When were the Intolerable / Coercive Acts passed?

Answer 17

1774

Question 18

List all the Acts. (6)

Answer 18

Townshend, Intolerable/Coercive, Quartering, Tea, Sugar, and Stamp

Question 19

Boston Massacre

Answer 19

the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770.

Question 20

What was the Olive Branch Petition?

Answer 20

It was the colonists’ last attempt in warning Great Britain, but was turned down anyway.

Question 21

What are the three Natural Rights?

Answer 21

Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness

Question 22

What are Natural Rights?

Answer 22

rights that we are born with and cannot be taken away from us.

Question 23

What does “consent of the governed” mean?

Answer 23

Consent of the Governed means a government should depend on the consent of the people, as expressed by votes in elections.

Question 24

How did the Boston Massacre lead to the revolution?

Answer 24

Conflicts between the British and the colonists had been on the rise because the British government had been trying to increase control over the colonies and raise taxes at the same time. The event in Boston helped to unite the colonies against Britain. Basically, they lost their trust, and began to group together and led to the fight for their independence

Question 25

How did the Acts passed by the parliament lead to the revolution?

Answer 25

The colonists were extremely aggravated with the acts passed by the British. They were taxed heavily, without any representation at all.

Question 26

When was the Magna Carta written?

Answer 26

1215

Question 27

Who wrote the Magna Carta?

Answer 27

Angry Nobles of Great Britain

Question 28

What was the purpose of the Magna Carta?

Answer 28

Limited power of the king, and provided rights for the nobles.

Question 29

`What four big ideas were presented in the Magna Carta?

Answer 29

Due - Process, Limited Government, Rule of Law, & Rights

Question 30

When was Common Sense written?

Answer 30

1776

Question 31

Who wrote Common Sense?

Answer 31

Thomas Paine

Question 32

What was the purpose of Common Sense?

Answer 32

To encourage colonists to support the fight for their independence (ex. should not be governed by an island, independence is a natural right, there is no need for a king who abuses his powers)

Question 33

What big idea was presented in Common Sense?

Answer 33

Rights, Due - Process, Rule of Law and Self - Government

Question 34

What type of document was Common Sense?

Answer 34

A pamphlet

Question 35

Rule of Law

Answer 35

all people have to follow the law, and the laws should be enforced fairly

Question 36

Self - Government

Answer 36

People can make decisions on how their government should work

Question 37

Due-Process

Answer 37

People have the right of fair and reasonable laws Ex. Right to have trial

Question 38

Limited Government

Answer 38

A government that has been limited in a power by a constitution or written agreement

Question 39

Who wrote the Olive Branch Petition?

Answer 39

John Dickinson

Question 40

What was the purpose of the Olive Branch petition?

Answer 40

It was an attempt to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British crown.

Question 41

Who wrote Plain Truth?

Answer 41

John Chalmers

Question 42

What was the purpose of Plain Truth?

Answer 42

a stirring point-by-point rebuttal to Paine, who held that independence was a fantasy that could harm the struggling colonies by breaking ties with their most valuable trading partner and leaving them exposed to invasion by France or Spain.

Question 43

Preamble

Answer 43

an introduction to explaining why the Declaration is being written

Question 44

Natural Rights

Answer 44

the colonists explain the rights of people and the role of government power

Question 45

Grievances

Answer 45

a list of colonists' complaints

Question 46

Resolution of Independence

Answer 46

The colonists declare their independence from Britain

Question 47

“For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent”

Answer 47

also known as "taxation without representation". The colonists were taxed without their consent, or their say in the parliament about it.

Question 48

“For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury”

Answer 48

The colonists did not have right of trial. They were either guilty or punished.

Question 49

“Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us”

Answer 49

Also known as the Quartering Acts, colonists were forced to allow British Troops inside their homes and had to care for them.

Question 50

"He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.”

Answer 50

The king has tried to keep people from coming to the colonists alive. Prevented immigration.

Question 51

“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”

Answer 51

The king has opened new government offices, such as tax collectors, and sent "swarms of officers to harass our people."

Question 52

What event led to the Boston Massacre?

Answer 52

Presence of British Army (thought of them as a disturbance to the community) and Taxation without representation