Acts, Enlightenment, Great Awakening

Question 1

Committee of Corespondents and its Functions

Answer 1

-Each committee got in touch with other towns and colonies
-Shared ideas and information about the new British laws and ways to challenge them
-Samual Adam’s helped found it
-Information Dissemination
-Mobilization
-Coordination
-Public Opinion Formation

Question 2

Information Dissemination

Answer 2

Committees, collected, and distributed news about British actions, including taxation laws, political debates, and military movements

Question 3

Mobilization

Answer 3

By spreading information, the committees rallied colonist to support common causes an organized protest, boycott, and other forms of resistance

Question 4

Coordination

Answer 4

The committee helped to coordinate efforts between different colonies, ensuring the United front against British rule

Question 5

Public opinion formation

Answer 5

The committees played a significant role in shaping public opinion, influencing colonist s’ attitudes toward British policies in the prospects for independence

Question 6

Writs of assistance

Answer 6

General search warrants issued by British American courts to empower customs officials to combat smuggling. These warrants allowed customs officers to search any house or vessel for smuggle goods without a specific warrant or probable cause.

Question 7

British East India Company

Answer 7

A tea company who had a huge amount of tea, but couldn’t sell it directly to the colonist. Then company talked to parliament and said that if they sold the tea for cheaper than it might encourage colonist to stop smuggling. Less smuggling would result and more tax money. Many merchants and smugglers feared that this would bring down their businesses.

Question 8

Jonathan Edwards

Answer 8

He was from Massachusetts and was one of the most important leaders of the great awakening. He taught sermons and they were about hell and sin.

Question 9

George Whitfield

Answer 9

Minister of the great awakening

Question 10

Colonial courts

Answer 10

Made up an important part of colonial governments. Colonist used chords to control local affairs. Court reflected beliefs of their local communities. Sometimes they also protected individual freedoms.

Question 11

The Townsend act

Answer 11

Parliament passed this act in June 1767. Imposed taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. Taxes were to raise revenue for the British government, to pay for the French and Indian war. Colonistsboycotted it.

Question 12

Townsend acts features

Answer 12

Taxes on imports, customs, enforcement, punishment for defiance

Question 13

The sugar act

Answer 13

Parliament passed it in 1764 to tax colonist to make them help pay cost. It imposed tax on sugar and molasses imported into the American colonies from non-British sources. Increase revenue for the government.

Question 14

Provisions for the sugar act

Answer 14

Reduced to duty on foreign molasses, higher duty on refined sugar, prohibition on foreign rum, structure enforcement

Question 15

What was another name for the west Indies company?

Answer 15

East India Company

Question 16

Who is the Prime Minister who passed the sugar act?

Answer 16

George Grenville

Question 17

The tea act

Answer 17

Allowed British east India company to sell tea directed to the colonist. Passed in 1773. Impacted the relationship between the American colonies in great Britain. Ignited a series of events that led to the American revolution.

Question 18

The tea act rules

Answer 18

Granted the east India Company, a monopoly on the tea trade in the American colonies. Provided the company with the tax break on T exported to the colonies. allow the company to ship to directly to the colonies, bypassing, colonial merchants

Main
Monopoly
Tax break
Direct shipment

Question 19

The tea act consequences

Answer 19

It was seen as an attempt to force them to pay tax. They considered unfair. Colonist
dumped Crates of tea into the water. Harsh punishments that further alienated the colonist. Paved away for the American revolution.

Main
-Colonist opposition
-Boston tea party
-intolerable acts
-path to revolution

Question 20

The intolerable acts

Answer 20

A series of four laws passed by parliament to punch colonist of Massachusetts for the Boston tea party. played a role in sparking the American revolution

Question 21

The intolerable acts key elements

Answer 21

-Boston Port act
-Massachusetts government act
-Administration of justice act
-Quartering act

Question 22

Massachusetts government act

Answer 22

Stripped Massachusetts of its right to self government, placing its government under direct British control

Question 23

Boston Port act

Answer 23

Close to the port of Boston until the colonist paid for the destroyed tea. This act devastated Boston’s economy and led to widespread hardship.

Question 24

Administration of justice act

Answer 24

Allowed British officials accused of crimes in the colonies to be tried in Britain. This made it nearly impossible for colonist to obtain justice.

Question 25

Quartering act

Answer 25

Required colonist to provide housing and supplies for British troops. This was seen as a violation of colonists rights.

Question 26

Boston tea party

Answer 26

On the night of December 16, 17 73, a group of sons of liberty, disguised as Mohawk Indians, boarded the three British ships in Boston Harbor. They forced the tea chest onto the dock and dumped them into the water. The Boston tea party was a symbolic act of defiance against British authority.

Question 27

Boston tea party consequences

Answer 27

The Boston tea party angered the British government, which responded by passing the intolerable acts. These acts close the port of Boston, punch the town of Boston for the tea party, and strengthen British control over the colonies. The intolerable act further inflamed intentions between the American colonies and great Britain, eventually leading to the American revolution.

Question 28

Cause of the Boston massacre

Answer 28

British military occupation, economic hardship, protest, and confrontations

Question 29

British military occupation

Answer 29

The presence of British troops in Boston to enforce British policies, particularly taxation, was a major source of resentment among colonists.

Question 30

Economic hardship

Answer 30

The British imposed a series of taxes on the colonists, including stamp act in the Townsend acts, which led the economic hardships and increased tensions

Question 31

Protests and confrontations

Answer 31

Colonist organized protest and boycott to oppose British policies. These demonstrations often led to confrontations between colonist and British soldiers.

Question 32

Effects of the Boston massacre

Answer 32

Increased anti-British sentiment, rise of patriot leaders, steps towards revolution

Question 33

Increased anti-British sentiment

Answer 33

The Boston massacre fueled anti-British sentiment throughout the colonies. It was widely publicized and condemned as a brutal act of oppression.

Question 34

Rise of patriot leaders

Answer 34

Figures like Samuel Adams and Paul Revere use the massacre as a rally and cry to mobilize support for the patriot cause

Question 35

Steps towards revolution

Answer 35

The event marked a significant turning point in the relationship between the colonies and Great Britain. It helped to solidify the colonists’ determination to resist British rule and ultimately led to the American revolution.

Question 36

Greta, awakening leader, effects, and significance

Answer 36

Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield, changed colonial, religion, affected social and political life, a religious movement this wept through the colonies. Increased religious diversity. Change, socially and politically by social equality.

Question 37

The enlightenment leader

Answer 37

John Locke

Question 38

The enlightenment, key ideas

Answer 38

Movement in 1700s that spread the idea that reason could improve society also formed ideas on how government should work

Question 39

The enlightenment value

Answer 39

Said that people had natural rights such as equality and liberty influenced colonial leaders

Question 40

Significance of the Bill of Rights

Answer 40

Reduced the powers of the English monarch

Question 41

Purpose of the navigation acts

Answer 41

Limit colonial trade, for bid colonist for trading certain items such as sugar and cotton with any other country other than England, the act also required colonist to use English ships transfer goods

Question 42

What was the great awakening?

Answer 42

A religious movement that swept through the colonies in a 1730s and 1740s. Change colonial religion. Affected social and political life.

Question 43

Effects of the great awakening

Answer 43

Change colonial religion. Changed religion.

Question 44

Impact of the great awakening

Answer 44

Led to the growth of new religious denominations, such as Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian. Colonist demanded more political equality.

Question 45

Who fought over the Ohio River Valley and why

Answer 45

Britain and Indians fought, parliament, had to pay for the cost. The British kept an army in North America to protect colonist from Indiana tax. They each thought the land belonged to them

Question 46

Results of the French and Indian war

Answer 46

Great Britain won, past sugar act to pay for keeping troops in North America, Townend acts attended to pay for the war

Question 47

Why sugar act was passed

Answer 47

Prime Minister, George Grenville as parliament to tax colonist. Wanted to raise money in the colonies. Wanted to pay off the French and Indian war

Question 48

What does no taxation without representation mean?

Answer 48

Parliament could not tax anyone without consent or permission. Cannot tax without popular consent.

Question 49

The stamp act

Answer 49

Actor required Conness to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items.

Question 50

Why was the stamp act introduced?

Answer 50

The British government wanted new ways to tax American colonistS

Question 51

What sparked the Boston massacre?

Answer 51

Mini Bostonian saw British troops as a threat by the British government. They resented each other. A British soldier standing guard gone to an argument with the colonist and struck him.

Question 52

What did the Boston tea party demonstrate?

Answer 52

An early example of what later became known as an act of civil disobedience

Question 53

Why were the intolerable acts repealed?

Answer 53

They first hope that the steps would bring back order in the colonies, but instead increased peoples anger at Britain. From the backlash. Replaced with declatory acts

Question 54

What did the colonist call the coercive acts and why?

Answer 54

Intolerable acts because they thought of them to be cruel and unfair

Question 55

How did the enlightenment influence politics in the colonies?

Answer 55

Formed ideals on how government should work. Reason could improve society. Believed in inequality, social contract between government and citizens. Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness/property, influence to create documents to show equality.