Ch5

Question 1

Privy Council

Answer 1

council created of advisers to the crown. they came up with ways to better rule the colonies.

Question 2

Sugar act of 1764

Answer 2

act reducing taxes on sugar and molasses but put taxes on other goods also heightening tax collection.

Question 3

Quartering act of 1765

Answer 3

act that made it so that colonists had to let British troops stay in their house.

Question 4

Stamp Act of 1765

Answer 4

made stamped paper mandated for all official papers. there was a tax on these papers.

Question 5

Circular Letter

Answer 5

Correspondence between the colonies trying to organize congressional resistance to the stamp act.

Question 6

Stamp Act Congress

Answer 6

A meeting between colony leaders to talk about the importance of eradicating the Stamp Act

Question 7

Daughters of Liberty

Answer 7

A women group of colonist who boycotted British goods and tried to make their own clothes so that they did not have to buy anything from the British

Question 8

Sons of Liberty

Answer 8

Colonist men who protested and forced the resignation of stamp officials, and harassed tax collectors

Question 9

Radical Whigs

Answer 9

Group who made pamphlets and spoke about “no taxation without representation”

Question 10

External Taxes

Answer 10

Taxes made to protect Britain

Question 11

Internal Taxes

Answer 11

Taxes that deeply influenced the colonies

Question 12

Virtual Representation

Answer 12

House of Commons was a group in the British Parliament that claimed to have the interest of the colonies in mind.

Question 13

Deputy Representation

Answer 13

Colonial representation in Parliament

Question 14

Declaratory Act

Answer 14

This let British parliament make all laws for the colonies

Question 15

Restraining Act

Answer 15

Put in place by Townshend to “suspend the New York Assembly” because of resistance to the Quartering Act

Question 16

Townshend Acts

Answer 16

put taxes on glass, lead, tea, paper, etc

Question 17

Boston ‘Massacre’

Answer 17

British soldiers fired into a crowd

Question 18

Gaspee Incident

Answer 18

A British navy ship was bombed by colonists

Question 19

Committees of Correspondence

Answer 19

News source for the colonies from a group of organized writers

Question 20

Tea Act

Answer 20

Gave East India Company ‘monopoly’ over North American tea sales

Question 21

Boston tea party

Answer 21

a group of colonists disguised as natives snuck onto a British ship and dumped 342 boxes of tea into the Boston Harbor in Protest

Question 22

Coercive Acts

Answer 22

four acts punishing Boston for tea party: Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Governing act, Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act

Question 23

Intolerable Acts

Answer 23

Colloquialism for Quebec and Coercive Acts

Question 24

Continental Association

Answer 24

Penned the “Deceleration of Rights” and boycotted trade with Britain

Question 25

Minutemen

Answer 25

American Soldiers

Question 26

Second Continental Congress

Answer 26

Colonial leader meeting to talk about the battles of Lexington and Concord

Question 27

Olive Branch Petition

Answer 27

Colonial request to make peace with king

Question 28

Battle of Bunker Hill

Answer 28

First battle of revolutionary war

Question 29

American Prohibitory Act

Answer 29

Parliament’s recognition that the colonies were openly rebelling.