5-1 Test

Question 1

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 1

• issued by British government
• closed west of Appalachian Mountains to colonists

Reasons:
-high pop in east
-stopped growth of colonies
-fewer resources: less farmland, fur + lumber
SAVED ENGLAND LOT OF $$$ CUZ ARMY WASN’T FIGHTING N.A. WEST OF APPS.

Question 2

Stamp Act

Answer 2

•England collected $$$ by selling stamps that had to be purchased and attached to

• all printed materials in colonies
• land deeds
• legal documents
• marriage licenses
• newspapers
• playing cards

Question 3

Stamp Act Repealed

Answer 3

•Colonists HATED it!
Colonists:
-protested
-boycotted goods
-tarred + feathered tax collectors

Question 4

Declaratory Act

Answer 4

• stated colonists still under Parliament’s control

* Parliament’s way to show power after they repealed Stamp Act (lol not)

Question 5

Quartering Act

Answer 5

• required colonists to provide shelter to British soldiers
• colonists believed this was a way England taxed them without calling it a tax
• brits could save $, eat + watch colonists

Question 6

Townshend Acts of 1767

Answer 6

Parliament taxed goods such as:
-glass
-tea (not repealed in 1770)
-paint
-lead
-paper
-silk
Led to Boston Massacre

Question 7

writs of assistance

Answer 7

customs officials used special search warrants to help collect taxes + stop smuggling
-agents could search any home, ship or warehouse without reason

Question 8

Pontiac (1763)

Answer 8

• Ottawa Chief who organized Native Americans
• attacked for 2 years
• destroyed most British forts along frontier
• defeated at Fort Detriot

Question 9

Boston Massacre

Answer 9

•March 5, 1770
•Colonists taunted + snowballs filled with ice and rocks at British soldiers
•The British shot into the crowd because someone yelled “FIRE!”
•5 colonists died
-Crispus Attucks was an African American sailor

Question 10

John Adams

Answer 10

The MA lawyer who defended the British soldiers on trial for the Boston Massacre

Question 11

The Tea Act

Answer 11

• British India Tea Company could sell DIRECTLY to colonists
• Colonists objected and REFUSED to buy tea
• BOYCOTT
• refused to unload tea from ships

Question 12

The Boston Tea Party

Answer 12

•December 16, 1773
•Sons Of Liberty...
-dressed as Mohawk Indians
-tossed 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor (worth $75,000)
•Led to Intolerable Acts

Question 13

Intolerable Acts

Answer 13

#1- No ships could enter or leave Boston Harbor until the $75,000 for the TEA dumped in harbor was paid back
#2- Cancelled MA Charter - no town meetings
#3- All trials of MA officials (if charged w/ criminal offense) moved to BRITAIN
#4- Quartering Act - British soldiers moved into colonists' QUARTERS
GOVERNOR Hutchinson OUT, GENERAL Gage IN

Question 14

Sugar Act (April 1764)

Answer 14

Parliament set duties on foreign sugar, textiles and other goods entering the colonies

Question 15

Redcoats

Answer 15

A term used by colonists referring to British troops

Question 16

Charles Townshend

Answer 16

The British finance minister in 1766 who was the author of the Townshend Acts

Question 17

Committee’s Of Correspondence

Answer 17

The groups were formed by the colonists to share information about resistance to Britain