Chapter 5-6

Question 1

British ban on printing colonial money in order to alleviate British creditors fears of being paid in the depreciated currency of the colonists

Answer 1

Currency Act (1764)

Question 2

Law passed by parliament requiring taxation on stamps for legal documents, publications and playing cards

Answer 2

Stamp Act (1765)

Question 3

Military tribunals composed only of a judge, not a local common jury

Answer 3

Vice-Admiralty

Question 4

Parliament’s act on refined sugar, cut Molasses Act duty in half

Answer 4

Sugar Act 1764

Question 5

The English concept that members of parliament represented the entire colonial empire, not just a local constituency and it’s voters

Answer 5

Virtual representation

Question 6

American colonists circa 1770 who fought for independence from Great Britain

Answer 6

Patriots

Question 7

Stamp Act Congress

Answer 7

Met to formulate a response to the stamp Act

Question 8

To withdraw from commercial or social relations with an organizations as a form of protest

Answer 8

Boycott

Question 9

A radical political organization for colonial independence which formed in 1765 after the passage of the stamp Act

Answer 9

Sons of Liberty

Question 10

Leader of the Sons of Liberty and suggested the Committees of Correspondence

Answer 10

Samuel Adams

Question 11

Taxed goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea

Answer 11

Townsend Acts 1767

Question 12

Tax that raises revenue through regulation of trade, or an imposed tax directly on the colonists

Answer 12

Indirect tax; direct tax

Question 13

An organization formed by women prior to the American Revolution to protest British oppression

Answer 13

Daughters of Liberty

Question 14

A riot in Boston, 1770, arising from the resentment of British colonists toward British troops quartered in the city

Answer 14

Boston Massacre

Question 15

Organized by leader Sam Adams, a system of communication between Patriot leaders in New England and throughout the colonies

Answer 15

Committees of Correspondence

Question 16

Law passed by parliament allowing the British East India company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies

Answer 16

Tea Act (1773)

Question 17

4 acts passed in 1774 which closed Port of Boston, reduced power of assemblies in colonies, permitted royal officers to be tried elsewhere, provided quartering of troops in barns and empty houses

Answer 17

Coercive Acts

Question 18

Gave French Canadians self rule

Answer 18

Quebec Act

Question 19

Convened to protest the Intolerable (Coercive) Acts

Answer 19

First Continental Congress

Question 20

Nickname given to local militiamen who fought against the British during the revolutionary war

Answer 20

Minutemen

Question 21

Torres; American colonies who remained loyal to Britain

Answer 21

Loyalists

Question 22

The first “battles” in the revolutionary war; shots exchanged between both sides

Answer 22

Lexington and Concord

Question 23

Convened to approve the Declaration of Congress

Answer 23

Second Continental Congress

Question 24

Written by Thomas Paine in 1776 to convince colonists to fight for independence

Answer 24

Common Sense

Question 25

Battle between British and American troops in Boston

Answer 25

Bunker (Breed’s) Hill

Question 26

Led troops (unsuccessfully) during French and Indian war, surrender Fort Necessity to French; Chief of Continental Army

Answer 26

George Washington

Question 27

A major battle in the revolution which ended in American victory and British surrendering

Answer 27

Saratoga

Question 28

German Commander who came to Valley Forge to help George Washington

Answer 28

Baron von Steuben

Question 29

Young Patriot from France who became George Washington’s aide during the revolution

Answer 29

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 30

War based of wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses

Answer 30

War of Attrition

Question 31

A decisive victory by a combined force of American and French troops, last major battle of the American Revolutionary War

Answer 31

Yorktown

Question 32

British formally recognizes American Independence

Answer 32

Treaty of Paris (1783)

Question 33

Allowed for British officer to be permitted to stay in the homes of the colonials

Answer 33

Quartering Act