American Nation Chapter 7

Question 1

militia

Answer 1

army of citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency

Question 2

Pontiac

Answer 2

Ottawa chief - tried to hold the ohio river valley against the British - said “all my young men have buried their hatchets

Question 3

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 3

issued by the british - drew a line along the appalachian mountains which forbade colonists from settling past it

Question 4

Townsend acts

Answer 4

tax by parliament on goods such as glass, paper, silk, lead tea

Question 5

General Braddock

Answer 5

British leader of british and colonial troops

Question 6

stamp act

Answer 6

tax by parliament on legal documents

Question 7

boycott

Answer 7

to refuse to buy certain goods or services

Question 8

Boston Massacre

Answer 8

British soldiers shot five colonists in Boston

Question 9

What does the shot heard around the world mean?

Answer 9

opening shot of the revolutionary war

Question 10

Lexington

Answer 10

town where british killed eight colonists

Question 11

Boston Tea Party

Answer 11

342 chests of tea were thrown overboard by colonials dressed as indians

Question 12

sugar act

Answer 12

tax by parliament on molasses in the colonies

Question 13

who wrote the poem The Concord Hymn?

Answer 13

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 14

General Gage

Answer 14

commander of the british troops in boston

Question 15

Paul Revere

Answer 15

Sons of liberty and silversmith who warned the minutemen that the british were coming

Question 16

Sons of Liberty

Answer 16

colonial group who met to talk about ways to protest britain

Question 17

Concord

Answer 17

town where the first shot heard round the world was fired

Question 18

Quartering Act

Answer 18

Colonists had to pay for the housing of british soldiers

Question 19

Intolerable Acts

Answer 19

series of laws passed by parliament to punish the colonists for the boston tea party

Question 20

Samuel Adams

Answer 20

Leader of sons of liberty in Boston

Question 21

Daughters of Liberty

Answer 21

Colonial women who wore dresses of homespun cloth instead of cloth imported from britain

Question 22

First continental congress

Answer 22

delegates from 12 colonies met in 1774 to unite against the intolerable acts

Question 23

population

Answer 23

number of people

Question 24

James Otis

Answer 24

son of liberty who said “taxation without representation is tyranny”

Question 25

French and Indian War

Answer 25

conflict between the french and indians and the colonists and the british

Question 26

Captain John Parker

Answer 26

colonial leader of militia Lexington who said “if they mean to have a war let it begin here

Question 27

repealed

Answer 27

canceled

Question 28

minutemen

Answer 28

colonists who were ready at a “minutes” notice, ready to fight

Question 29

Why did the colonists protest taxes passed by parliament?

Answer 29

taxation without representation