Chapter 4 test

Question 1

Pontiac’s Rebellion

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Caused the British to issue the Proclamation of 1763

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The British government issued the Proclamation of 1763 to

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Discourage colonial settlement in territory west of the Appellations

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Parliament passed the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act to

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Help pay British war debts

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Parliament planned to pay the debt from the French and Indian War by

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Imposing taxes on the colonists

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Colonial merchants signed nonimportation agreements because

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Parliament was taxing the colonists without their consent

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Sons of Liberty

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Secret committee that protested taxation with representation

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Samual Adams

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Colonial activist involved in the Sons of Liberty

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Stamp Act Congress

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Meeting at which delegates pledged by loyalty to Parliament but denied Parliaments right to tax the colonists

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Parliaments responded to the Stamp Act Congress and other protests by

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Repealing the Stamp Acts

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Townshend Acts

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Set duties on certain goods imported to the colonies in order to raise revenue for the Crown

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Quartering Act

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Required colonist to help house and give supplies to British soldiers

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Boston Massacre

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Confrontation over enforcement of the Townshend Acts

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The Boston Massacre occurred as a result of

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Enforcement of the Townshend Acts by British soldiers

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Boston Tea Party

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Prompted Parliament to pass laws known as the Intolerable Acts

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In protest against a law that attempted to save the British East Indian Company

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Colonists staged the Boston Tea Party

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The three following things describe the colonists reactions to the Tea Act of 1773

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1. They threw tea into Boston Harbor, 2. They threatened tea importers, 3. They worried about a possible monopoly on tea trade

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Intolerable Act

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Colonists name for laws passed in response to the Boston Tea Party

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First Continental Congress

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Body that asserted colonial rights and called for a ban on trade with Great Britain

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Declaration of Resolves

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Statement created by delegates to the First Continental Congress

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The Continental Army was established in

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June 1775 by the Second Continental Congress

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Olive Branch Petition

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Sent to King George III as a plea for peace

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Colonial conservatives tried to avert total war after the Battle of Boston by

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Persuading the Continental Congress to petition George III for peace

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Declaration of Independence

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Document that asserted the right of people to overthrow an unjust government

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The Declaration of Independence asserts the following rights

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The right of people to abolish an unfair government

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The authors of the Declaration of Independence hoped to

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1. Win public support for independence, 2. Undermine loyalty to King George, 3. Outline the principles of a representative government

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Loyalist

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Name for colonists who supported the British

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Patriot

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Supporters of the colonists’ right to rebel against the British king

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The Continental Army experienced shortages and disease because

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A lack of central government

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Problems faced by the Continental Army during the war included

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1. Lack of central government, 2. Troop and supply shortages, 3. Disease

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The British threatened to recruit slaves into their army

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So Washington ordered the army to enlist slaves

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Peter Salem

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African American who fought at Bunker Hill

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Thayendanegea

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Pro-British member of the Iroquois League

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Thayendanegea

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Mohawk chief who sided with the British in the war

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The Battle of Saratoga caused

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France and other European nations to support the Americans

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The Battle of Saratoga convinced

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Some European powers to support the colonists

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Guerrilla warfare

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Military tactics used by Patriot commander Nathanel Greene

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As a result of the Treaty of Paris of 1783

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Great Britain officially granted independence to the colonies

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Mississippi River

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Western boundary of the United States after the Treaty of Paris of 1783

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The goal of the Revolution achieved

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Colonial independence and self government