Chapter 2: Causes of the Revolution

Question 1

When was the Proclamation Line?

Answer 1

1763

Question 2

When was the Sugar Act?

Answer 2

1764

Question 3

When was the Currency Act?

Answer 3

1764

Question 4

When was the Stamp Act?

Answer 4

1765

Question 5

When was the Stamp Act repealed?

Answer 5

1766

Question 6

When were the Intolerable Acts?

Answer 6

1774

Question 7

When were the Townshend Duties?

Answer 7

1767

Question 8

When was the Tea Act?

Answer 8

1773

Question 9

When was the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 9

December 16th, 1773

Question 10

What was the Proclamation Line?

Answer 10

A line across the crest of the Appalachians, that the settlers weren’t allowed to cross & claim land past.

Question 11

How many settlers ignored the Proclamation Line?

Answer 11

30,000 in the years 1763-68.

Question 12

What were the Anti-smuggling measures put in place by Grenville?

Answer 12

Colonial Customs officials had to reside in America rather than delegate their duties.
Jurisdiction in smuggling cases was given to a vice-admiralty court rather than colonial courts.

Question 13

When were the Anti-smuggling measures passed?

Answer 13

1763

Question 14

What was the Sugar Act?

Answer 14

American sugar duty was reduced from 6d per gallon to 3d per gallon.

Question 15

Why was the Sugar Act hated?

Answer 15

It led to taxes being enforced more, and meant sugar was more expensive.

Question 16

How much was the Sugar Act predicted to make?

Answer 16

£78,000 per year.

Question 17

How much had the previous sugar act of 1733 made?

Answer 17

£21,652 over 30 years.

Question 18

Who Wrote “The Rights of the British Colonies, Asserted & Proved”?

Answer 18

James Otis

Question 19

What was the Currency Act?

Answer 19

It placed a ban on colonial paper money for paying merchants.

Question 20

What was the Stamp Act?

Answer 20

It dictated that every document printed must have a stamp on it, which would be taxed.

Question 21

How much was the Stamp Act estimated to raise?

Answer 21

£60,000 in its first year

Question 22

What was the American reaction to the Stamp Act?

Answer 22

The Viriginia Assembly put forward the Vriginia Resolves, penned by Patrick Henry. They condemned the Stamp Act & threatened resistance. By the end of 1765, 8 other assemblies had passed similar resolutions condemning the Stamp Act.

Question 23

What was the Stamp Act Congress?

Answer 23

A meeting in 1765, where 27 delegated from 9 colonies attended a meeting to agree on action to repeal the stamp act.

Question 24

Why was the Stamp Act congress important?

Answer 24

it was the first example of coordinated Colonial resistance

Question 25

What was the ideological issue with the Stamp Act?

Answer 25

No taxation without Representation

Question 26

Who was Andrew Oliver?

Answer 26

the stamp distributor in Massachusetts

Question 27

Who was Thomas Hutchinson?

Answer 27

the Chief Justice in Massachusetts

Question 28

Effigies of who were hung from the Liberty Tree in August 1765?

Answer 28

Andrew Oliver & The Earl of Bute

Question 29

Why did Andrew Oliver resign?

Answer 29

His house was destroyed and his office torn down

Question 30

Whose mansion got attacked by mobs over the Stamp Act?

Answer 30

Thomas Hutchinson and/or Andrew Oliver

Question 31

What effect did the mob action over the Stamp Act have?

Answer 31

It led to several officials resigning out of fear.

Question 32

Who were the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 32

A group made to ensure political consciousness over British control was kept high.

Question 33

When were the Sons of Liberty set up?

Answer 33

1765

Question 34

What did New York merchants do in October 1765?

Answer 34

signed an agreement not to import goods from Britain until the Stamp Act was repealed.

Question 35

Who replaced Grenville as PM in July 1765?

Answer 35

Marquis Rockingham

Question 36

What was the Declaratory Act?

Answer 36

An act that stated the British retained the right to tax the colonies however they wished

Question 37

When was the Declaratory Act?

Answer 37

1766

Question 38

What were the Townshend Duties?

Answer 38

A new set of taxes on imports of wine, glass, china, lead, paint, paper, and tea.

Question 39

How much were the Townshend Duties estimated to raise?

Answer 39

Around £40,000 per year.

Question 40

What was the Quartering Act?

Answer 40

Forced colonial assemblies to house British troops

Question 41

When was the Quartering Act passed?

Answer 41

1765

Question 42

When was the New York Restraining Act?

Answer 42

1767

Question 43

Why was the New York Restraining Act passed?

Answer 43

New York refused to comply with the Quartering Act, as the responsiblity fell unfairly upon itself, since it was the HQ of the British colonial army.

Question 44

What did the New York Restraining Act do?

Answer 44

Made it so the New York assembly could not take any legislative measures until they complied with the Quartering Act.

Question 45

What did John Dickinson Write in response to the Townshend Duties?

Answer 45

Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer

Question 46

What did the Massachusetts assembly do in 1768?

Answer 46

Sent a circular letter denouncing the Townshend Duties for violating the principle of 'no taxation without representation'. Seven colinial assemblies soon approved the letter.

Question 47

What was the Economic resistance to the Townshend Duties?

Answer 47

Boston led the way in 1768, calling for economic boycott of British goods. By 1769, every colony except New Hampshire had organised a boycott of British goods.

Question 48

What was the Boston Massacre?

Answer 48

In March 1770, a mob threw snowballs at a squad of British troops guarding a customs house, who opened fire and killed five.

Question 49

Why did the British repeal the Townshend Duties?

Answer 49

They were concerned over events in the colonies, and needed to restart trade.

Question 50

Which part of the Townshend Duties were kept?

Answer 50

The tax on tea

Question 51

Why was the tea tax kept in the Townshend Duties?

Answer 51

As a mark of 'the supremacy of Parliament'

Question 52

What were the Committees of Correspondence?

Answer 52

Started in 1771, they were set up to ensure rapid dissemination of information throughout the colonies.

Question 53

What was the Tea Act?

Answer 53

An act that said the East India Company did not have to pay import taxes.

Question 54

Why was the Tea Act an issue?

Answer 54

The East India Company tea could undercut American tea due to not having to pay the taxes.

Question 55

How much tea was thrown into the bay in the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 55

342 tea chests, worth £10,000.

Question 56

What were the names of the 3 ships that had their tea thrown into the boston bay?

Answer 56

The Dartmouth, the Beaver, and the Nancy.

Question 57

What was the British reaction to the Boston Tea party?

Answer 57

They demanded the company be reimbursed, and saw it as a direct challenge to Imperial authority.

Question 58

What were the Intolerable Acts?

Answer 58

The Boston Port Act - Boston was closed to all trade until the EIC had ben reimbursed. The Massachusetts Government Act - The royal governor could appoint & remove most civil officials. Town meetings could not be held without his permission. The Impartial Administration of Justice Act - All murder cases were to be transferred to Britain The Quartering Act - further authority was given to generals seeking to house their troops

Question 59

Which colony was the first to pass a resolution condemning the Coercive Acts?

Answer 59

Virginia

Question 60

How many colonial newspapers were there by 1775?

Answer 60

42

Question 61

When was the First Continental Congress?

Answer 61

September 1774

Question 62

Which state didn't show up to the First Continental Congress?

Answer 62

Georgia

Question 63

How many delegated were sent to the Continental Congress?

Answer 63

56

Question 64

What was agreed at the first continental congress?

Answer 64

Non-importation of all British goods until the Coercive acts were repealed Formation of a continental association to form a united front rather than local initiatives

Question 65

Why did Gage write to Lord North reccommending the suspension of the Coercive Scts in 1774?

Answer 65

British Authority in Masachusetts had broken down & Gage was effectively beseiged in Boston

Question 66

Which state remained predominantly loyal to Britain in the early 1770s?

Answer 66

New York

Question 67

When was Massachusetts declared in a state of rebellion?

Answer 67

Feburary 1775

Question 68

Why was the Proclamation Line set up?

Answer 68

Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763 destroyed a bunch of British posts & killed settlers. The line was intended to reduce the conflict.

Question 69

What was the main issue with British taxation of the colonies?

Answer 69

Arbitrary authority