American Revolution

Question 1

Navigation Act

Answer 1

It was a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between enemy countries except Britain. This ensured that Britain had power. It was designed to support British merchants.

Question 2

7 Years’ War

Answer 2

A war that lasted 7 years, in North American resulted in New France being claimed a British possession. Important because it drained a good part of England’s treasury which lead England to increase taxes because of new wars. It made America separate from Britain.

Question 3

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 3

Issued by the king, it cut off land speculation to the west of the Appalachian Mountains this was important because it meant that settlers could not settle near the Ohio river or other desired places.

Question 4

Stamp Act

Answer 4

Of 1765, made Americans pay a small tax (similar to our HST) It was stamped on everything they bought it meant to pay the defence off the American colonies

Question 5

Boston Massacre

Answer 5

1n 1770 nervous British soldiers misunderstood an order (the commander tried to stop them) and fired their muskets into a mob of Boston protestors, killing several people. The British troops were everywhere around the unsettled Americans. It started with a snowball.

Question 6

Taxes on Tea

Answer 6

Americans opposed and protested the tax so in 1773 the 50 sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawks and threw tea into the harbour to protest the act. This lead to the ships from Britain to be afraid that the tea they bring in would be thrown into the harbour as well.

Question 7

Intolerable acts

Answer 7

1774, American patriots term for a sense of punitive laws passed by the British parliament after the Boston tea party. It was Britain’s response to the tea party.

Question 8

Quebec Act

Answer 8

1774, Quebec act was passed, made the conquered territory into a new Britain colony. Passed the law the colonists called the ‘intolerable acts’ It was also the second response to the tea party.

Question 9

Loyalists

Answer 9

They were people who didn’t support the revolution and were strongly in favour of British rule.
They were persecuted by revolutionary patriots who also burned their homes and farms. They later colonized Ontario.

Question 10

50 sons of Liberty

Answer 10

A secret organization formed by the colonists in protest against the stamp act.

Question 11

Tyranny

Answer 11

The tyranny of the British toward the colonists, the constant taxes (taxation without representation is tyranny)

Question 12

Boycott

Answer 12

Avoiding buying from a country or company as a protest, America did this to Britain as a way of protesting after taxes on tea

Question 13

The battle of Saratoga

Answer 13

A battle between the English colonists here the colonists won and made the Declaration of Independence

Question 14

The constitution of the United States

Answer 14

A constitution inspired by Locke and Montesquieu, where the government is divided into 3 branches

• legislative (the congress)
• judicial (system of national court / judge)
• executive (president)

Question 15

George Washington

Answer 15

He was the leader of the battle of Saratoga who was a wealthy land owner he was a great military leader who united the colonists to a common cause.

Question 16

The Declaration of Independence

Answer 16

The goal of the war which guaranteed equality for men