voc quiz 3.1

Question 1

Stamp Act Congress

Answer 1

Representatives from nine colonies met in New York in 1765 and decided that only their own elected representatives had the power to approve taxes.

Question 2

Sons & Daughters of Liberty

Answer 2

Secret society who intimidated tax agents; tarred and feathered some tax collectors

Question 3

Salutary Neglect

Answer 3

Britain exercised little direct control over the colonies and did not enforce its navigation laws

Question 4

Intolerable Acts

Answer 4

Another name for the Coercive Acts of 1774, a series of acts made to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

Question 4

Proclamation Act of 1763

Answer 4

Prohibited colonists from settling west of Appalachian Mountains. British wanted to prevent violence between Native Americans and colonists. Colonists were angry and disobeyed law.

Question 5

Natural Rights

Answer 5

Political authority was not given by God to the monarchs. Instead it derived from the social compacts that people made to preserve “Life, Liberty and property”

Question 6

Virtual Representation

Answer 6

Claim by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented by Parliament

Question 7

Nonimportation movement

Answer 7

Reduced household consumption of imported goods and produced large quantities of homespun cloth

Question 8

Thomas Paine

Answer 8

January 1776, wrote pamphlet that argued in clear and forceful language that the colonies should break with Britain.

Question 8

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Answer 8

French philosopher who had a profound influence on educated Americans in the 1760s and 1770s

Question 8

John Locke

Answer 8

English philosopher who said that all people have rights, simply because they are human and that people have a right and a responsibility to revolt against any government that failed to protect their rights

Question 9

First Continental Congress

Answer 9

September 1774, all of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates to a convention in Philadelphia. The purpose was to determine how the colonies should react to the threat to their rights and liberties caused by Intolerable Acts.

Question 10

Second Continental Congress

Answer 10

May 1775, representatives met in Philadelphia. They adopted the Declaration of the Causes and Necessities for Taking Up Arms.

Question 11

Olive Branch Petition

Answer 11

July 1775, last effort for peace. Colonists pledged their loyalty and asked the king to go to Parliament to secure peace and protect their colonial rights

Question 12

Land Ordinance of 1785

Answer 12

A policy that established surveying and selling of western lands.

Question 13

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Answer 13

Established conditions for creating new states around Ohio and Pennsylvania. Granted limited self-government and prohibited slavery in the region.

Question 14

Articles of Confederation

Answer 14

Adopted by Congress in 1777, it created a central government with limited powers.

Question 15

Unicameral Legislature

Answer 15

Central government that consisted of just one body, a Congress. Each state was given one vote, with at least 9 of 13 votes required to pass important laws.

Question 16

Continentals

Answer 16

Paper money issued by Congress which became almost worthless due to inflation

Question 17

Lexington

Answer 17

April 18, 1775 British soldiers seized colonial military supplies. This is where the first shot of the Revolutionary War was fired