Ch 6 Test

Question 1

a cost-saving measure that required the colonies to house and provide British soldiers with supplies.

Answer 1

Quartering Act

Question 2

income

Answer 2

Revenue

Question 3

placed taxes on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies. also enforced harsh punishment for smugglers.

Answer 3

Sugar Act

Question 4

required all legal documents to carry an official stamp to show that tax had been payed.

Answer 4

Stamp Act

Question 5

refusal to buy.

Answer 5

Boycott

Question 6

secret society formed to oppose British policies. staged protests against stamp act, some of which were not peaceful (tar and feathers.)

Answer 6

Sons of Liberty

Question 7

born into slavery, escaped by running away to sea. spent next 20 years as sailor and renamed self to Michael Johnson. died in Boston Massacre

Answer 7

Crispus Attucks

Question 8

Suspended New York’s assembly until they agreed to house troops, placed taxes on goods like tea, lead, paint, glass, paper, etc.

Answer 8

Townshend Acts

Question 9

search warrants that searched for smuggled goods

Answer 9

Writs of Assistance

Question 10

traded insults at Custom House until a fight broke out. 5 people were killed

Answer 10

Boston Massacre

Question 11

exchanged letters regarding colonial affairs throughout various towns in Massachusetts

Answer 11

Committee of correspondence

Question 12

event where 342 chests of tea had been destroyed. group of men dressed up as native americans and boarded 3 ships in boston harbor. revolt against tea act

Answer 12

Boston Tea Party

Question 13

go through with or pursue

Answer 13

execute

Question 14

unknown

Answer 14

anonymous

Question 15

light axe

Answer 15

tomahawk

Question 16

someone who advocates social or political change

Answer 16

radical

Question 17

agreeing to carry out an order

Answer 17

compliance

Question 18

eliminates all competition

Answer 18

monopoly

Question 19

at the same time

Answer 19

simultaneously

Question 20

a bell tower

Answer 20

belfry

Question 21

a wooden/metal pole for masts

Answer 21

spar

Question 22

a house placed for soldiers

Answer 22

barrack

Question 23

guard

Answer 23

sentinel

Question 24

a strap across an animal’s body

Answer 24

girth

Question 25

phantom or ghost like

Answer 25

spectral

Question 26

a spirited horse

Answer 26

steed

Question 27

a force of armed civillians who pledged to defend their community

Answer 27

Militia

Question 28

trained to be ready to act at a minute's warning.

Answer 28

Minutemen

Question 29

said that colonists had to pay for destroyed tea, banned committees of correspondence, allowed Britain to house troops wherever necessary, let British officals accused of crimes in the colonies to stand trials in Britain

Answer 29

Intolerable Acts

Question 30

all colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia. Delegates voted to ban all trade with Britain until the Intolerable Acts were repealed

Answer 30

First Continental Congress

Question 31

first battles of revolutionary war. nearly 4,000 militia and minutemen lined the roads of Concord all the way to Lexington. peppered retreating redcoats with musket fire. the arrival of 1,000 more troops saved Britain from destruction.

Answer 31

Lexington and Concord.

Question 32

those who supported Britain

Answer 32

loyalist

Question 33

those who rebelled

Answer 33

patriots

Question 34

cannon and large guns

Answer 34

artillery

Question 35

meeting where they (delegates) agreed to make continental army. delegates included samuel and john adams, John Hancock, George Washington, etc. also printing of paper money was established to pay troops

Answer 35

second continental congress.

Question 36

commanding general = george washington.

Answer 36

continental army

Question 37

composed by thomas jefferson. declared independence from Britain

Answer 37

declaration of independence

Question 38

composed the declaration. prepared most of it in two weeks. wrote when he was 33

Answer 38

thomas jefferson

Question 39

why proclamation of 1763 was made and how it affected colonists

Answer 39

after french and indian war, british knew defending western land would be expensive. said colonists couldn't settle west of appalachians. angered colonists who wanted to move ohio river valley because many of them didn't have land of their own. upset colonists who bought land as an investment, so they ignored proclamation

Question 40

purpose of townhend acts.

Answer 40

made as a way to raise revenue in colonies for troops.

Question 41

what colonists didn't like about tea act of 1773

Answer 41

colonists who hadn't been paying any tax on smuggled tea would now have to pay a tax on regulated tea.

Question 42

purpose of intolerable acts

Answer 42

made to punish colonies after boston tea party in attempt to "master" them

Question 43

main goal of general gage in lexington vs concord

Answer 43

arrest adams and hancock in lexington and destroy supplies in concord

Question 44

How did Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Dr. Samuel Prescott help the colonists?

Answer 44

arranged a system to determined whether British troops were arriving by sea or land. revere would go across water from boston to charlestown and then lexington and concord. dawes would take land route.

Question 45

things accomplished during second continental congress

Answer 45

continental army was formed, also authorized the printing of paper money to pay troops

Question 46

significance of Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense.

Answer 46

uproar in call for independence, convinced many that a complete break from britain was necessary.

Question 47

purpose of declaration

Answer 47

to demand the colonies independence from britain