Chapter 4 Sec 1

Question 0

Who was the commander of the British troops and n America and also named governor of Massachusetts following The Boston Tea Party?

Answer 0

General Thomas Gage

Question 1

What was an organization of delegates from 9 of the 13 colonies who gathered in response to the Stamp Act and vowed not to pay any taxes without the consent of their colonial legislatures?

Answer 1

Stamp Act Congress

Question 2

Who was the fugitive slave that killed during the Boston Massacre?

Answer 2

Crispus Attucks

Question 3

Who was the Indian chief who raced settlements in the Great Lakes Valley because American settlers were moving onto Indian lands in great numbers?

Answer 3

Pontiac

Question 4

What is another name for a search warrant used during colonial times?

Answer 4

Writ of Assistance

Question 5

What was the act that prohibited settlements eat of the Appalachian mountains?

Answer 5

Proclamation of 1763

Question 6

What was the act that indirectly taxed tea, glass, lead and colors for paint on all American imports?

Answer 6

Townshend Acts

Question 7

What was an underground organization of Boston citizens that staged riots and destroyed offices of royal officials?

Answer 7

Sons of Liberty

Question 8

What act gave the British East India Company a monopoly on selling tea in America?

Answer 8

Tea Act

Question 9

What was an agreement by colonial merchants not to buy or import British goods?

Answer 9

Non-importation agreement

Question 10

What was the act that required the colonial legislature to provide housing and supplies for the British troops stationed in America?

Answer 10

Quartering Act

Question 12

What act forbade the colonists from issuing paper money and forcing them to pay taxes in gold or silver?

Answer 12

Currency act

Question 13

What was the name of the act that placed a tax on molasses and sugar?

Answer 13

Sugar Act

Question 14

What is 1 of the 2 names for a series of acts which were meant to punish the people of Massachusetts because of the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 14

Coercive Act

Question 15

What is the name of the tax place on paper products?

Answer 15

Stamp Act

Question 16

What were goods, like tobacco, that could only be sent to England?

Answer 16

enumerated

Question 17

What was an economical and political theory where by a nation tries to gain greater wealth and power than its rivals?

Answer 17

Mercantilism

Question 18

What was the event where British soldiers fired into an angry Boston crowd and killed a number of american colonists?

Answer 18

Boston Massacre

Question 19

What was the event in Boston where colonists dressed like Indians, boarded ships and threw cargoes of tea into the bay?

Answer 19

Boston Tea Party

Question 20

What is the Act whir stated that the British Parliament could pass laws for the colonies - which would include tax laws?

Answer 20

Declaratory Act

Question 21

What was the major source of colonial trade which involved the colonies and Africa and the West Indies?

Answer 21

Triangle Trade

Question 22

What was the popular slogan in the colonies that showed their displeasure with the taxes being passed on them and their lack of their legislative consent?

Answer 22

No taxation without representation

Question 23

What was the colonial organization whose main function was to inform the other colonies what was happening in Massachusetts?

Answer 23

Committee of Correspondence

Question 24

What are the 2 problems facing Britain after the French and Indian War?

Answer 24

Debt

Cost of defending new territory

Question 25

What was an organization of delegates from 12 colonies, which demanded their rights as Englishmen - a change in British policies and would meet again if the laws that punished Massachusetts were not repealed?

Answer 25

!st Continental Congress