Chapter 2 Section 2

Question 1

How did the king respond?

Answer 1

With force

Sent more troops in and had two battles known as the first battles of the revolutionary war

Question 2

How did the colonist respond to the battles?

Answer 2

They questioned their attachment to Britain

Question 3

Patriots

Answer 3

Wanted to break away from Britain

Question 4

Loyalists

Answer 4

Stay under British rule

Question 5

Declaration of Independence

Answer 5

It argued that the British government didn’t look after the interest of the colonists, it included a long list of abuses by King George the third, gave reasons why America should be a free nation

Question 6

Ideas or ideals of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 6

Government is based on the consent of the people, people are entitled to change or overthrow government if they disregard their rights or their wills, purpose of government is to protect the rights of people

Question 7

Unalienable

Answer 7

Given to you by birth

Question 8

Mercantilism

Answer 8

Theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys

Question 9

Stamp act

Answer 9

Required the colonists to attach expensive tax stamps to all newspapers and legal documents

Question 10

Boycott

Answer 10

To refuse to buy

Question 11

Repeal

Answer 11

To cancel

Question 12

Delegates

Answer 12

Representatives

Question 13

Independence

Answer 13

Self-reliance and freedom from outside control

Question 14

Lexington and Concord

Answer 14

First battles of the Revolutionary war

Question 15

What did the slogan no taxation without representation mean

Answer 15

Since they had no representatives in Parliament Parliament had no rights to Tax

Question 16

What happened at the Boston tea party? Why did it happen? How did King George the third react?

Answer 16

A group of colonists dressed as native Americans and dumped 342 chests of British tea into the Boston Harbor during the Boston tea party this happened because the colonists wanted to protest further taxes on tea King George the third reacted forcefully

Question 17

What was common sense? Who wrote it? What arguments were made in the document?

Answer 17

Commonsense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. Arguments about independence from England and the creation of a democratic republic were made in the document

Question 18

What was the Declaration of Independence? Who wrote it? Why was it written?

Answer 18

The Declaration of Independence was a document that officially announced the independence of the United States. Thomas Jefferson wrote it to explain why the United States should be a free nation
The people are entitled to change or overthrow the government if it disregards their rights, government is supposed to protect their rights

Question 19

What are three patriots and what are they famous for?

Answer 19

Thomas Paine, common sense
Patrick Henry, “ give me liberty or give me death”
Thomas Jefferson, used his words to further the cause of independence

Question 20

What are two things that the colonists did or decided to do at the meeting

Answer 20

Made plans to extend boycott on British goods, and demanded the rights of the colonists to be restored

Question 21

How did Britain successfully have mercantilism using the colonies

Answer 21

They forced the colonists to sell raw materials to Great Britain at low prices. Britain then used the raw materials to create finished products that they sold back to the colonist at high prices

Question 22

Levied taxes on goods imported from colonies

Answer 22

Townsend act

Question 23

What did the tea act do?

Answer 23

It gave the British East India Company right to ship tea to the colonies without paying most of the taxes usually placed on Tea

Question 24

Cohersive acts

Intolerable acts

Answer 24

Restricted the colonists rights to trial by jury and allowed British soldiers to search and even move into colonists homes

Question 25

Which act stated that England could tax and pass laws that covered the colonists even though the colonist didn’t have representation in Congress

Answer 25

Declaratory act