SS 4:1

Question 1

Boycott

Answer 1

to refuse to buy a good or service; a nonviolent form of protest

Question 2

Repeal

Answer 2

to cancel or to take back

Question 3

Militia

Answer 3

civilians (non-military people) serving as soldiers

Question 4

Propaganda

Answer 4

A story/art which gives only one side of an argument or issue

Question 5

Massacre

Answer 5

A slaughter/killing of people or animals

Question 6

Retreat

Answer 6

to turn away from the fighting in a battle; whoever is still on the field is the winner/victor/ and can claim victory

Question 7

Quartering

Answer 7

Housing or lodging for the soldiers/military

Question 8

Coercive

Answer 8

forceful

Question 9

Intolerable

Answer 9

unbearable

Question 10

Smuggle

Answer 10

bring goods into a country illegally

Question 11

Duties/Tariffs

Answer 11

taxes on imported or exported goods

Question 12

Parliament

Answer 12

England’s lawmaking legislature; headed by the Prime Minister

Question 13

Writes of Assistance

Answer 13

Search warrants that allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods

Question 14

Salutary Neglect

Answer 14

not enforcing most laws governing the colonies

Question 15

Rights vs. Liberty

Answer 15

Rights are rules of the way people are governed or what is allowed; liberty is freedom.

Question 16

Commites of Correspondence

Answer 16

Method of communication between towns and colonies about how to challenge new British laws

Question 17

Samuel Adams

Answer 17

Boston Leader who believed Parliament could not tax the colonists without permission

Question 18

Stamp Act of 1765

Answer 18

Required colonists to pay for an official stamp when buying paper items

Question 19

What happened in 1763?
(Hint: Beginning)

Answer 19

Great Britain won the French and Indian War and was in debt after all the other wars with France. Prime Minister George Grenville asked Parliament, England’s lawmaking legislature, to tax the colonists to help pay for the war debt and for the British Army stationed in North America.

Question 20

1764- The Sugar Act

Answer 20

Sugar Act taxed sugar and molasses to raise money
British began arresting smugglers and searching ships for smuggled goods
Parliament’s actions upset/angered the colonists
James Otis and Samuel Adams argued that the colonists could not be taxed without the colonists’ consent/permission or representation in Parliament – NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.
Samuel Adams founded the Committees of Correspondence to communicate to the towns in all the colonies. Think about how difficult it was to do that then.

Question 21

What happened in 1765?
(Hint: Rules)

Answer 21

Colonists began to protest by boycotting (not buying) British goods
Stamp Act of 1765 taxed all paper items which required a stamp.
People who refused could be fined or sent to jail.
Colonists especially disliked this tax because it was a direct tax on the people.
Samuel Adams formed the Sons of Liberty as a protest for the hated Stamp Act. The Sons of Liberty used violence by tarring and feathering tax collectors and burned their houses.
Patrick Henry (VA House of Burgesses) argued against the Stamp Act – later said “Give me liberty or give me death.”
Stamp Act Congress – 9 of 13 colonies met in New York and declared that the act violated their rights! The colonies united now (Albany Plan - Join or Die cartoon).

Question 22

What happened in 1766?
(Hint: Great Britain)

Answer 22

Great Britain repealed/cancelled the Stamp Act because the colonial boycott hurt their business.
Declaratory Act – stated that Parliament had the right to make all laws whatsoever – Great Britain was the boss!!

Question 23

What happened in 1767?
(Hint: Townshend Acts)

Answer 23

Townshend Acts placed duties/taxes/tariffs on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea
Colonists again boycott British goods
Daughters of Liberty supported the boycott.
British used Writs of Assistance, or search warrants, that gave the British power to enforce these acts.

Question 24

What happened in 1768?
(Hint: Brittish)

Answer 24

British sent soldiers to Boston to restore order.

Question 25

What happened in 1770? (Hint: Boston Massacure)

Answer 25

Boston Massacre – March 5, 1770 5 colonists were killed (Crispus Attucks - first black casualty) Soldiers were defended by John Adams and Josiah Quincy They were found not guilty of murder (self-defense) Paul Revere’s engraving, p. 109, helped fuel resentment toward the British. This was propaganda (biased/misleading). Was it really a “massacre” (deliberate killing)? Did it depict events the way they really happened?

Question 26

What happened in 1773? (Hint: Tea Act)

Answer 26

Tea Act - British repealed all the taxes except the one on tea Allowed the British East India Co. to sell its tea cheaply to the colonists, hurting colonial tea business Boston Tea Party – 340 chests of British tea were overthrown by colonists (Sons of Liberty) disguised as Indians; estimated damage in today’s money is $1,700,000. Boston must be punished!

Question 27

What happened in 1774? (Hint: Corcive Acts)

Answer 27

Coercive Acts (“Intolerable Acts”) Boston Harbor was closed until tea was paid MA’s charter was cancelled Quartering Act forced colonists to house British soldiers and had no right to say that they could not use their private homes (Today, the Third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is in response to this act.) King George III assigned General Thomas Gage to be the new governor of Massachusetts First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia to discuss the Intolerable Acts, and all colonies except Georgia sent representatives (55 delegates) What should the colonies do?