Chapter 5

Question 1

Metacomet

Answer 1

Wampanoag leader who led American Indian groups in King Philip’s War

Question 2

militia

Answer 2

body of civilians serving as soldiers

Question 3

casualties

Answer 3

people who are killed, wounded, captured, or missing in a war

Question 4

backcountry

Answer 4

frontier region between the colonies’ coastal settlements and the Appalachian Mountains

Question 5

Pontiac

Answer 5

Ottawa leader who led the American Indians against the British

Question 6

boycott

Answer 6

refusal to buy certain goods

Question 7

Samuel Adams

Answer 7

person whose ideas helped inspire the slogan “No taxation without representation”

Question 8

writs of assistance

Answer 8

special search warrants that allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods

Question 9

Sugar Act

Answer 9

• law intended to raise money in the colonies
• Taxes on molasses and sugar

Question 10

propaganda

Answer 10

stories and images designed to support a particular point of view

Question 11

Sons of Liberty

Answer 11

secret group of people who used violence to protest taxes

Question 12

Patrick Henry

Answer 12

tried to use politics in the House of Burgesses to revoke the Stamp Act

Question 13

House of Burgesses

Answer 13

a group of representatives in Virginia who helped pass laws and communicated between the King of Britain and colonists

Question 14

Albany Plan of Union

Answer 14

written by Benjamin Franklin, called for all the colonies except Georgia to unite

Question 15

in the 1760s Ottawa leader Pontiac and his followers rebelled by _______________

Answer 15

attacking British forts

Question 16

Pioneers crossed the Appalachians to settle in the _____________ because there were large forests, rich soil, and abundant game in the region.

Answer 16

Ohio River valley

Question 17

Edward Braddock

Answer 17

led the British forces in North America in the Seven Years’ War

Question 18

Townshend Acts

Answer 18

placed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea

Question 19

Stamp Act

Answer 19

George Grenville proposed in 1765 when the colonists failed to suggest an alternate plan for paying taxes

Question 20

Patrick Henry

Answer 20

colonist who preseented resolutions to the House of Burgesses in May 1765, insisting that the Stamp Act was unjust

Question 21

Daughters of Liberty

Answer 21

Women’s groups that supported boycotts of British goods were called the

Question 22

George Grenville

Answer 22

the prime minister who decided to tax the colonists to pay Great Britain’s heavy debts from the French and Indian War

Question 23

Boston Massacre

Answer 23

occured after a British guard argued with angry colonists

Question 24

Fort Necessity

Answer 24

place where George Washington was beat during the French and Indian War

Question 25

colonial delegates

Answer 25

While _____________ were writing the Albany Plan of Union, George Washington and his troops were fighting the French in the Ohio River valley.

Question 26

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 26

agreement between Britain and American Indians to STOP colonial settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains

Question 27

Appalachian Mountains

Answer 27

the line from the Proclamation of 1763 was geographically located by the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Question 28

Committees of Correspondence

Answer 28

\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ shared ideas and information with groups in other colonial towns about British laws and ways to challenge them

Question 29

tar and feather

Answer 29

a violent method used by the Sons of Liberty to stop tax collection

Question 30

Boston Tea Party

Answer 30

\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ led Parliament to pass laws to punish Massachusetts