Ch.4

Question 1

Required the colonists to purchase a special stamped paper for:
legal doc
licesenses
newspapers
dice
etc

Answer 1

stamp act

Question 2

the tax was added to the item, not built into the item like gas. You see it

Answer 2

direct tax

Question 3

Protestors to the Stamp Act make up a secret group

Answer 3

Sons of Liberty

Question 4

one of the founders of sons of liberty. Harvard educated, deeply in debt-power political activist. Harassed customs house officials, stamp act governors prevented any stamps from being sold

Answer 4

Samuel Adams

Question 5

adopted a resolution by 29 year old Patrick Henry. Virginians could only be taxed by the Virginia Assembly. First representative government in America

Answer 5

Virginia house of burgesses

Question 6

he comes up with the wonderful idea the virginians could only be taxed by the virginia assembly

Answer 6

Patrick Henry

Question 7

Virtual vs Actual Representation

Answer 7

the colonies were virtually representative by the British government

Question 8

Stamp Act Congress

Answer 8

October 1775. delegated from nine colonies met in New York City
issued the declaration of rights and grievances
said parliament lacked the power to impose taxes on the colonists bc they were not represented in Parliament

Question 9

What three cities did the non important agreements:

Answer 9

Boston, New York, and Philly

Question 10

Merchants in Boston, New York, and Philly agreed not to import manufactured goods from GB until the stamp act was repealed

Answer 10

Nonimportant Agreements

Question 11

Parliament has the full right to make laws “to bind the colonies and people of America.. in all cases whatsoever

Answer 11

Declaratory Act

Question 12

Treasure in Great Britain

Answer 12

Charles Townshend

Question 13

Indirect taxes. Placed on paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea

Answer 13

townshend acts

Question 14

what was john hancocks boat called

Answer 14

the liberty

Question 15

Boston Massacre

Answer 15

a fistfight broke out in the afternoon. that evening a mob of colonists gathered at the customs house in boston and taunted the guards on duty. Captain Thomas Preston brought out reserve troops from guardhouse. Someone fired a shot and the guards fire.. A total of five colonists died

Question 16

orders more reserve troops from the guardhouse

Answer 16

Captain Thomas Preston

Question 17

first man to die in the revolution

Answer 17

Crispus Attucks

Question 18

Passed a series of acts after the Boston tea party. He was very upset

Answer 18

King George III

Question 19

were originally set up in Massachusetts, but they spread throughout the colonies. They provided information on what was going on in all of the colonies at the time.

Answer 19

Committees of Correspondence

Question 20

Intolerable Acts

Answer 20

passed by parliament. the colonists refused to pay for damaged tea. Called the COERCIVE ACTS set up by King george and Lord North. Shut down Boston Harbor. Suspended the assembly in New York. Royal officers would be tried in other colonies or england when accused of a crime

Question 21

Quatering Act

Answer 21

British commanders were authorized to house soldiers in vacant private homes and other buildings. General Gage was appointed new governor of Massachusetts. Boston was other colonies or England when accused of a crime

Question 22

First Continental Congress

Answer 22

In philly; 56 members

• defended the colonists right to run their affairs
• supported the protests in Boston
• colonists should fight back
• would reconvene in May, 1775

Question 23

Discovered that the British were coming

Answer 23

Doctor Joseph Warren

Question 24

Paul Revere, William Dawes, Samuel Prescott

Answer 24

warned british were coming

Question 25

Battle of Lexington

Answer 25

the colonists get word that the British are coming. 70 minutemen line up on the Lexington green one early morning. There are over 700 British soldiers. A shot is fired and no one knows who fired it first. Four minutemen are killed and one British soldier injured. The colonists retreat and, the British March onward to Concord. The British raid the city and set any food they could find and steal weapons and gun powder. The minutemen see the British torching their city and think it will eventually be completely torched. They March to the north bridge to prevent them from doing that. Over 2,000 minutemen come together. They killed over 250 British as they retreated back to Boston. Only about 70 minutemen are killed. Colonists saw this as a huge moral victory.

Question 26

the commander of the british army

Answer 26

General Thomas Gage

Question 27

Battle of Bunker Hill

Answer 27

June 17, 1775 No one technically wins
Patriots- 452 deaths
British- 1,054 deaths
The Americans ran out of ammunition

Question 28

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Answer 28

A 50 page pamphlet.
Printed 500,000 copies. It was merely common sense for Americans to break completely with a government that could produce such a corrupt monarch as George III. He argued that independence was the American “destiny.” Independence would give the Americans a chance to create a better society free from tyranny.

Question 29

Declaration of Independence

Answer 29

1. For imposing taxes with our consent
2. For cutting off trade with all parts of the world
3. King George had sent British troops over to the colonies without the consent of their legislatures
4. King George shut down the Boston port and all other ports. He didn’t allow the colonists to trade internationally

Question 30

concept of natural rights: life, liberty, and property. governments derive their power from the consent of the governed. “all men are created equal”

Answer 30

John Locke

Question 31

helped create the declaration of independence

Answer 31

Ben Franklin

Question 32

was 33 when he wrote the declaratiion

Answer 32

thomas Jefferson

Question 33

mercenary soldiers from germany

Answer 33

hessians

Question 34

the british surrender at this battle

Answer 34

battle of yorktown

Question 35

Peace of Paris of 1783

Answer 35

provisions- Benjamin Franklin, John Jay,
John Adams
Negotiations begin in 1782 Treaty of Paris- September, 1783
Great Britain recognized American Independence
Boundaries: Atlantic Ocean to Mississippi River
Canada to Florida (not including Florida)
British would evacuate their forts on American soil (no date set) Americans agreed that British creditors could collect debts
America said that Loyalists could sue in state courts to recover their loses.