Unit Test Chapter 8 Review

Question 1

What did the Proclamation of 1763 say?

Answer 1

Colonists could not settle on land west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Question 2

What were the two reasons why Britian needed money?

Answer 2

They were in debt from the French and Indian War and they needed to continue to raise money so they could keep British troops in the 13 colonies to protect the land and colonists.

Question 3

Britian decided to tax the colonists to raise money. The first tax they imposed was the?

Answer 3

Stamp Act

Question 4

What did the Stamp Act place a tax on?

Answer 4

Paper goods.

Question 5

Why did the colonists feel that the tax was unfair?

Answer 5

Colonists did not have a say in government. They could not vote in Parliament or have a representative in Parliament.

Question 6

What was the rallying cry the Colonists would say?

Answer 6

No taxation without representation.

Question 7

What is Parliament?

Answer 7

Britain’s law-making assembly

Question 8

How did the colonists protest the Stamp Act?

Answer 8

They burned stamp agent’s homes.
They chased them out of town.
They burned stamps.
They hung a dummy of a stamp agent from a tree.

Question 9

Because of the protests, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act. What does the word Repeal mean?

Answer 9

To cancel

Question 10

Britian still needed money, so they imposed the Townshend Acts. What did this tax?

Answer 10

Imported goods - tariff.

Question 11

How did the colonists protest the Townshend Acts?

Answer 11

They boycotted

Question 12

What is a boycott?

Answer 12

A refusal to buy goods.

Question 13

How did Britain respond to the boycott?

Answer 13

They sent warships to the Boston Harbor.

Question 14

The Townshend Act was repealed after the Boston Massacre but Britain left a tax on one item, what was that item?

Answer 14

Tea

Question 15

What did the colonists do to protest the Tea Act?

Answer 15

Bost Tea Party (the Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawks (Native Americans) and dumped the tea from Britain into the Boston Harbor).

Question 16

What did Britain do to punish the people of Boston?

Answer 16

They passed the Intolerable Acts

Question 17

What 3 things did the Intolerable Acts say?

Answer 17

1) Port of Boston closed (no ships in, no ships out)
2) Massachusetts colony was put under the control of a British General
3) Colonists in Boston had to feed and house British soldiers

Question 18

What was the purpose of the First Continental Congress?

Answer 18

To discuss what to do about the Intolerable Acts.

Question 19

Where did the First Continental Congress meet?

Answer 19

Philadelphia

Question 20

Who attended the First Continental Congress?

Answer 20

Representatives from all 13 colonies except for Georgia

Question 21

What three things did the First Continental Congress decide?

Answer 21

1) All trade with Britain would stop.
2) All colonies would form and train militias.
3) They would meet again in 1 year if things did not improve.

Question 22

What is a militia?

Answer 22

Volunteer army

Question 23

What are minutemen?

Answer 23

Militia groups who were ready at a moment’s notice to fight

Question 24

Who are Patriots?

Answer 24

People who were opposed to British rule.

Question 25

Who are Loyalists?

Answer 25

People who are still loyal to Britain.