5-1 Vocabulary, Key People, & Events

Question 1

Why did the British create the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 1

1. to control westward movement
2. to limit conflict with Native Americans
3. to control the fur trade in the interior

Question 2

How did smuggling harm the British economy?

Answer 2

Britain lost revenue, or money, from the colonists not paying taxes on the smuggled goods.

Question 3

How did George Grenville make it harder for colonists to smuggle goods?

Answer 3

1. He passed a law where smugglers would be tried in vice-admiralty courts, not colonial courts.
2. He authorized writs of assistance.

Question 4

What is a writ of assistance?

Answer 4

a legal document that allowed customs officers to enter any location to search for smuggled goods

Question 5

What was the goal of the Sugar Act?

Answer 5

to get the colonists to pay the tax instead of smuggling molasses

Question 6

Why did the colonists object to the Sugar Act and other laws concerning smuggling?

Answer 6

They though their rights as English citizens were being violated (interfered with).

Question 7

What two points did opposition to the Stamp Act center on?

Answer 7

1. Parliament had no right to interfere in colonial affairs by taxing the colonists directly.
2. The colonists were being taxed without their consent (agreement).

Question 8

Who was the member of the Virginia House of Burgesses that convinced the House to take action against the Stamp Act?

Answer 8

Patrick Henry

Question 9

What resolution did the House of Burgesses pass as a result?

Answer 9

The colonies had “the only and sole right and power to lay taxes” on their own citizens.”

Question 10

What organization did Samuel Adams help create in Boston?

Answer 10

Sons of Liberty

Question 11

How did protesters show their disapproval of the Stamp Act?

Answer 11

1. They burned effigies of tax collectors.

2. They destroyed houses belonging to royal officials.

Question 12

What did the Stamp Act Congress do?

Answer 12

It drafted a petition to the King and Parliament stating that the colonies had the only right to tax the colonists.

Question 13

What is the act of refusing to buy any type of goods for a specific purpose?

Answer 13

a boycott

Question 14

What were non-importation agreements?

Answer 14

pledges not to buy or use imported goods from Britain

Question 15

What did the Declaratory Act state?

Answer 15

Parliament had the right to tax and make decision for the colonists.

Question 16

What did the Townshend Acts tax?

Answer 16

imported goods like glass, tea, and paper

Question 17

What did the Daughters of Liberty do?

Answer 17

They encouraged Americans to make things themselves instead of relying on British goods.