Unit 2

Question 1

Who did Thomas Paine call the “royal brute”?

Answer 1

The king of England

Question 2

Why did the colonists form the 1st Continental Congress?

Answer 2

To petition the King about the Intolerable Acts

Question 3

Why did Samuel Adams have Paul Revere make an engraving of the Boston Massacre?

Answer 3

As propaganda to convince the colonists to rebel against England

Question 4

What was one reason the colonists gave for rebelling against England?

Answer 4

Britain’s trade laws were unconstitutional

Question 5

What was a second reason the colonists gave for rebelling against England?

Answer 5

Britain’s government was violating their rights as Englishmen

Question 6

What was a third reason the colonists gave for rebelling against England?

Answer 6

The colonists were not represented in Parliament

Question 7

After winning the French and Indian War, why did Britain raise the colonists’ taxes?

Answer 7

To pay the war debt

Question 8

In what three ways did France help the colonists fight the Revolutionary War?

Answer 8

The French sent soldiers, money, and ships to help the colonists.

Question 9

What political body did the colonists form after the fighting at Lexington and Concord?

Answer 9

The 2nd Continental Congress

Question 10

What issue did the colonial delegates discuss at the 2nd Continental Congress?

Answer 10

The independence of the colonies

Question 11

The increased trade laws and taxes of the 1760’s and 1770’s led to what?

Answer 11

The American Revolution

Question 12

What is the function of the Parliament?

Answer 12

To legislate/create the laws of Great Britain

Question 13

What did the Proclamation of 1763 not allow the colonists to do?

Answer 13

To settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

Question 14

Who did Thomas Paine say was the King of America?

Answer 14

God and the law

Question 15

What did John Locke believe was the purpose of government?

Answer 15

To protect the natural rights of the people

Question 16

What did “no taxation without representation” mean?

Answer 16

The colonists had no one in Parliament representing their interests/rights.

Question 17

What types of people were in the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 17

American patriots who protested British laws

Question 18

Why did the colonists reject the Stamp Act?

Answer 18

It violated their rights as Englishmen

Question 19

The American founders were what type of leaders?

Answer 19

Political

Question 20

What was one way the colonists reacted to trade laws and taxes like the Townshend Acts, Stamp Act,and Tea Act?

Answer 20

They boycotted English goods.

Question 21

What is a second way the colonists reacted to trade laws and taxes like the Townshend Acts, Stamp Act, and Tea Act?

Answer 21

They petitioned the King to stop the laws.

Question 22

What is a third way the colonists reacted to trade laws and taxes like the Townshend Acts, Stamp Act, and Tea Act?

Answer 22

They organized Committees of Correspondence like the Sons of Liberty

Question 23

What is a fourth way the colonists reacted to trade laws and taxes like the Townshend Acts, Stamp Act, and Tea Act?

Answer 23

They smuggled in non-British goods

Question 24

The Intolerable Acts were punishment for what colonial action/incident?

Answer 24

The Boston Tea Party

Question 25

What is a social contract?

Answer 25

An agreement where the people give up some power in return for the benefit of government

Question 26

What were the two purposes of the British trade laws and taxes of the 1760's and 1770's?

Answer 26

To control trade and raise revenues/money to pay for the French and Indian War.

Question 27

After the Revolutionary War, the Treaty of Paris established what river as the western boundary of colonial territory

Answer 27

The Mississippi River

Question 28

What phrase of the Declaration of Independence emphasizes John Locke's idea of natural rights?

Answer 28

"All men are created equal"

Question 29

What main theme did the Declaration of Independence try to explain?

Answer 29

The desire of the colonies for freedom

Question 30

Thomas Paine's main goal in Common Sense was to persuade the Americans to declare what?

Answer 30

Independence

Question 31

What two ideas of John Locke did Thomas Jefferson use to explain why the colonists had a right to declare their independence?

Answer 31

The purpose of government was to protect the peoples' natural rights and the consent of the governed in the social contract