Chapter 5

Question 0

Why did England place a number of taxes (acts) against the colonists?

Answer 0

To pay the war debt after French and Indian war

Question 1

What does salutary neglect mean?

Answer 1

Not strictly enforcing most laws

Question 2

What is smuggling?

Answer 2

Importing and exporting without paying

Question 3

What was George Grenville’s first action in the colonies? (To combat what?)

Answer 3

Fighting smuggling

Question 4

What are the writs of assistance?

Answer 4

Documents that permitted searches by customs looking for smuggled goods

Question 5

How was the Sugar Act supposed to stop smuggling?

Answer 5

Lowered the tax on molasses to try and convincing people to stop smuggling

Question 6

What was the problem for the colonists with the Sugar Act? (What British law was contradicted?)

Answer 6

British officers were allowed to seize without to going to court

Question 7

What was the Stamp Act?

Answer 7

Placed a tax on almost all printed material in the colonies

Question 8

Who persuaded the House of Burgesses to take action against the Stamp Act?

Answer 8

Patrick Henry

Question 9

What was the name of the settlement created between the Holston and Nolichucky Rivers by regulators that lost
at the Battle of Alamance?

Answer 9

Watauga

Question 10

Who owned the ship Liberty?

Answer 10

John Hancock

Question 11

What event did the Colonists use as an example of propaganda?

Answer 11

Boston massacre

Question 12

What is information designed to influence opinion?

Answer 12

Propaganda

Question 13

How many people were killed at the Boston Massacre?

Answer 13

5

Question 14

What Acts were repealed due to the Boston Massacre?

Answer 14

Townshend acts

Question 15

What is the name of the best militias in Massachusetts?

Answer 15

Minuteman

Question 16

What was Paul Revere famous for shouting?

Answer 16

The regulars are out

Question 17

What battle featured the “shot heard ‘round the world”?

Answer 17

Lexington

Question 18

Who was under command of the colonial troops at Bunker Hill?

Answer 18

General Prescott

Question 19

What is his famous quote from this battle?

Answer 19

Don’t fire until you see the whites in their eyes

Question 20

What did the British find out after the Battle of Bunker Hill?

Answer 20

They are prepared

Question 21

Who were people who considered the unfair taxes upon the colonies not good reasons to rebel?

Answer 21

Loyalists

Question 22

Who were determined to fight the British until independence is gained?

Answer 22

Patriots

Question 23

Who headed up the first post office in America?

Answer 23

Benjamin franklin

Question 24

What was created by the Second Continental Congress to better organize military efforts?

Answer 24

Continental army

Question 25

What expressed the colonists desire for peace?

Answer 25

Olive petition

Question 26

What pamphlet did Thomas Paine write?

Answer 26

Common sense