Ch. 5 revolutionary war

Question 0

What British company was the tea act designed to help?

Answer 0

East India Co.

Question 1

What act of Parliament enabled a major British company to sell tea directly to the American colonies?

Answer 1

Tea act

Question 2

What is a monopoly?

Answer 2

When only one business provides a product or service in a certain market

Question 3

On what occasion did colonists dump tea into the Boston harbor?

Answer 3

Boston Tea party

Question 4

How did the Tea Act change the way the East India Company sold tea to the colonies?

Answer 4

It authorized the East India Company to sell tea directly to the american retailers

Question 5

How did the Tea Act affect the East India co.’s finance?

Answer 5

They made more money because there was no more middleman

Question 6

How did the British think the Americans would react to the Tea Act?

Answer 6

The British thought that they would accept it

Question 7

How did the colonists feel about the tea act?

Answer 7

It angered them because the East India Co. Became a monopoly

Question 8

What tea did the colonists favor?

Answer 8

Dutch tea

Question 9

What ship did the Boston tea party occur on?

Answer 9

Dartmouth

Question 10

Who was the governor of Massachusetts?

Answer 10

Thomas Hutchinson

Question 11

What did Thomas Hutchinson want the colonists to do?

Answer 11

To pay the tea tax

Question 12

What kind of Indians did the colonists dress as during the Boston tea party?

Answer 12

Mohawk indians

Question 13

What did the Boston Port Act do?

Answer 13

would not allow ships to leave or enter the Boston harbor until the tea was paid for

Question 14

What did the Administration of Justice Act do?

Answer 14

It gave the governor power to transfer trials of serious crime to courts outside of Massachusetts

Question 15

What did the Massachusetts government act do?

Answer 15

It made the government gain power over the town meetings

Question 16

What did the quartering act do?

Answer 16

It forced colonists to house British soldiers in their homes

Question 17

Why did the first Continental Congress meet?

Answer 17

To keep in touch with the radicals elsewhere in Massachusetts and other countries; it was an informal government

Question 18

What did the first Continental Congress accomplish?

Answer 18

They repealed all British laws aimed at raising money in the colonies, denounced the British Army, and banned the buying of British products

Question 19

Who are the patriots?

Answer 19

The leaders in the community

Question 20

Who were the Minute men?

Answer 20

Revolutionary war civilian-soldiers who were trying to fight on short notice

Question 21

Who received orders from the Parliament to arrested and imprison American leaders as Americans began to organize?

Answer 21

General gage

Question 22

Who wanted the Americans of the soon to be attacked by the British?

Answer 22

Paul Revere And William Dawes

Question 23

Who was the first to fire a shot?

Answer 23

The British say it was the Americans; the American say it was the British

Question 24

Explain Britain’s much back from Concorde.

Answer 24

The march back was like a trip through the corners of hell. The American use their knowledge of the natural landscape to great advantage. All along the route they hid behind trees, along river banks, and in hollows. Snipers peppered the redcoats with bullets by the time British was safely back in Boston, they had suffered 273 casualties American losses came to just under 100

Question 25

What was the importance of the Fort build on Breed’s hill by the Americans?

Answer 25

It was a vantage point where Americans could use cannons to take out the British ships

Question 26

Who was supposed to relieve American soldiers at Bunker Hill? Did they?

Answer 26

Fresh soldiers; no

Question 27

What did the Americans know how to do, and when could they fire?

Answer 27

They knew how to shoot, but were told not to fire until they can see the white of the enemies eyes

Question 28

Explain the strategies used by the British to charge the bunker?

Answer 28

Gen. how directly attacked the fort with his soldiers prepared to take losses until they could scale the wall and ending battle with their bayonets.

Question 29

What did the Americans use when they ran out of ammo?

Answer 29

Nails and pieces of glass

Question 30

What did Howe think the Americans would do? Did they?

Answer 30

Howe thought the Americans would flee. But the Americans did not flea