Acts

Question 1

Navigation Acts

Answer 1

-Forced colonies to buy expensive goods to England and only sell to them.
-Passed by parliament to make sure Great Britian bennifited from trade with the colonies.

Question 2

What did the Navigation Acts restrict?

Answer 2

Freedom of trade.

Question 3

What was the colonist reaction to the Navigation Acts?

Answer 3

Colonist began to resent the law and smuggle goods.

Question 4

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 4

-The long range cause of the American Revoultion.

Question 5

What couldnt they do in the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 5

They couldnt pay for the French and Indian War. Great Britian could’nt afford troops in the Ohio River Valley.

Question 6

What was colonist forbidden to do in The Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 6

Move to the Ohio River Valley. They would have to move back if they where already there.

Question 7

What did they need permmision to do in the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 7

To go in the Ohio River Valley.

Question 8

What was restricted in the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 8

Freedom of travel.

Question 9

Colonist reaction in The Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 9

They ignored the proclamation because they where used to doing what they wanted.

Question 10

Writs of Assistance?

Answer 10

Blank search warrants used by British to serach for smuggled goods. Soldiers could search through any home.

Question 11

The restriction of Writs of Assistance?

Answer 11

Freedom of Privacy.

Question 12

Colonist reaction to the Writs of Assistance.

Answer 12

Colonist relized that not all laws from Great Britian were good.

Question 13

Sugar Act?

Answer 13

Parliament actaully lowered the tax on sugar.

Question 14

What was the purpose of the Sugar Act?

Answer 14

To try to persuade colonist to pay the small tax and not smuggle goods. (manipulation)

Question 15

Colonial reaction to Sugar Act?

Answer 15

Boston Lawyer James Ottis summed up their views, saying that no part of England should be taxed without consent and representation. (No taxation without representation.)

Question 16

What did the Sugar Act restrict?

Answer 16

Freedom of English citizens.

Question 17

Stamp Act?

Answer 17

Most printed material had to have a stamp or be printed on a special stamped paper.

Question 18

What did the Stamp Act restrict?

Answer 18

Freedom of Press.

Question 19

Stamp act Colonial reaction?

Answer 19

1. Sons of liberty was formed-Samuel Adams, the used force to persuade others to resists Englishs control.
2. Nine colonies attend stamp act congress to petition England to stop taxing colonies.
3. Urged colonist to boycott British goods
4. Burned effiges of tax collectors.
5. Succeded in getting parliament to repeal the act, replacing it with the Declarity Act (Stated that England could pass any laws it wished in regard to the 13 colonies.
6. Colonist where so happy about repeal they ignore seriousness of Declaroty act.

Question 20

Quartering Act?

Answer 20

Stated that colonist had to provide food and shelter to british soldiers that were in the colonies to keep the colonist in line.

Question 21

What was restricted in the Quartering Act?

Answer 21

Freedom of Privacy.

Question 22

Colonial reaction to the Quartering Act?

Answer 22

1. Leads to Boston Massacre.
2. 5 colonist killed after a mob began yelling, throwing snowballs, and rocks at british troops.
3. Sons of Liberty use propaganda to make the incident seem like an attack on inocent colonist.

Question 23

Townshed Acts?

Answer 23

New taxes places on lead, paint, paper, glass, and tea.

Question 24

What did the Townshed Acts restict?

Answer 24

Freedom to vote on taxes.

Question 25

Colonial reaction to Townshed Acts?

Answer 25

No taxation without representation becomes the colonist “moto” and they start to boycott british goods again.

Question 26

Tea Act?

Answer 26

Effort to save British East India Tea Co.
The company could sell directly to colonist.

Question 27

What did the Tea Act Eliminate?

Answer 27

Eliminated all taxes but on tea.
Parliament tries to show they are in control and can tax colonies.

Question 28

Colonial reaction to The Tea Act?

Answer 28

Boston tea party (342 chest of tea destroyed, vauled at over $1 M in todays money)

Question 29

Committees Of Correspondence?

Answer 29

Colonies communication network. Kept colonies informed about happeningd near and far. Provided a forum to discuss grivances against Britain.

Question 30

Intolerable Acts?

Answer 30

Passed by parliament to punish Boston for the Tea Party.

Question 31

Intolerable Act qoute?

Answer 31

King George 3: “We must master them, or leave them totally to themselves and treat them like aliens,” Britian expected payment for Tea.

Question 32

What was passed in The Intolerable Act?

Answer 32

1. Boston Harbor closed to all trade. (Starve them)
   2.Banned town meetings to stop riots from occuring.
2. Sent more troops to serve as police force
3. Tried in British courts.
   5.Quebec Act- set up gov. for area N and W of colonies, ignoring colonial claims to the land.

Question 33

Intolderable Act restriction?

Answer 33

Freedom of trade, speach, and fair trial.

Question 34

Colonial reaction to the Intolerable Act?

Answer 34

United colonies that their liberty could not be abused any further, led to meeting of colonial leaders in Philadelphia.

Question 35

First Continental Congress?

Answer 35

Delagates from all colonies but Georgia met in Philedalphia to discuss relations with Eengland.

Question 36

What did the First Continental Congress decide to do?

Answer 36

1. Sent a letter of grievances to king and parliament.
2. Created groups to inforce boycotts, and encouraged colonies to form militas.
3. Agreed to meet a year later if relations did not improve.

Question 37

Lexington-Concord?

Answer 37

-British troops are sent from Boston to Concord to look for ammunition and weapons.
-Also looking for John Hancock, Samuel Adams, hoping to capture and punish them for the Boston Tea Party.
-Leads to the “Shot Heard Round The World.”

Question 38

What happend after the “Shot” in Lexington-Concord?

Answer 38

1. Colonial minutemen are warned by Pual Revere and William Dawes that the “Regualrs are out.”(One if by land, two if by sea-lanters in the Old North Church.)
2. At Lexington 700 British troops encountered and defeat captain John Parker and approx, 70 minutemen, “Dont fire unless fired apon but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here!”
   3.At concord more than 1000 colonist suprise the British with Guerrilla tactics, sending them scurrying back to Boston.
   4.The milita ambushes and follows the red coats all the way back ti Boston, killing and wounding a large amount of red coats and making the British relize that its not going to be easy.

Question 39

Second Continental Congress?

Answer 39

-Sent olive branch petition to King George 3.
-Set up continental “army” George Washington named commander-in-cheif.
-Set up committee to write declaration of independence.
-John Hancock is elected president of the congress.

Question 40

Fort Ticonderoga?

Answer 40

British fort, controlled route to Canada by way of lake champlain.
-Ethan Allen and the green mountain bays, with help from Benedict Arnold, suprised British and captured the fort/
-Gave colonist much needed confidence as well as cannon and ammunition.

Question 41

Battle of Bunker Hill?

Answer 41

-Fought on Breeds Hill.
-COLONIST- led by WIlliam Prescott.
-BRITISH- Led by William Howe. He attacked 3 times before winning.
-Colonist victory, British suffering.
QUOTE, “Dont fure until you see the whites of their eyes,” Prescott.

Question 42

Patriot?

Answer 42

Supported the rebelion. Determined to end British rule.

Question 43

Loyalist?

Answer 43

Wanted British rule to continue.
Did not thinks rebelion was justified.