Chapter 5

Question 1

What does salutary neglect mean?

Answer 1

Not strictly enforcing most laws.

Question 2

What three things lead to individualism being strong in the colonies?

Answer 2

Salutary neglect, colonies making their own laws, and people having more land in the colonies than England.

Question 3

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

Answer 3

To pay the war depths from the French-Indian War.

Question 4

What is importing or exporting without paying proper taxes on goods? (Also GB’s top priority in the colonies at
this time)

Answer 4

Smuggling

Question 5

How was the Sugar Act supposed to stop smuggling?

Answer 5

By lower taxes on molasses and to try to convince 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 goods from smugglers without going to court.

Question 7

What was the Stamp Act?

Answer 7

An act that 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 purpose of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 9

To protect the rights of the colonists and fight taxation by the British.

Question 10

Who was the founder of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 10

Samuel Adams

Question 11

What was important about the Declaratory Act?

Answer 11

It stated that England had the right to tax the colonies in all cases.

Question 12

What was important about the Townshend Acts?

Answer 12

It taxed imported goods before they arrived in the colonies.

Question 13

Who owned the ship Liberty?

Answer 13

John Hancock

Question 14

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

Answer 14

The Boston Massacre

Question 15

What is information designed to influence opinion?

Answer 15

Propaganda

Question 16

How many people were killed at the Boston Massacre?

Answer 16

5

Question 17

What Acts were repealed due to the Boston Massacre?

Answer 17

The Townshend Acts

Question 18

What occurs when only one company controls a product?

Answer 18

A monopoly

Question 19

What event was a response to the Tea Act of 1773?

Answer 19

The Boston Tea Party

Question 20

During the time of the Boston Tea Party most colonists considered themselves to be part of what empire?

Answer 20

The British Empire

Question 21

As a punishment for the Boston Tea Party, what did King George III impose upon Massachusetts?

Answer 21

The Intolerable Acts

Question 22

Were the Coercive Acts successful in isolating Boston?

Answer 22

Not one bit. (No) Other colonies supplied Massachusetts.

Question 23

What is the name of the best militias in Massachusetts?

Answer 23

Minutemen

Question 24

What did Paul Revere shout to warn the colonists of an impending attack?

Answer 24

The Regulars are coming out.

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Battle of Lexington

Question 26

Who was under command of the colonial troops at Bunker Hill and what was his famous quote?

Answer 26

General Prescott, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Loyalists (Torres)

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Patriots (Rebels)

Question 29

Who headed up the first post office in America?

Answer 29

Benjamin Franklin

Question 30

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

Answer 30

The Continental Army

Question 31

What pamphlet did Thomas Paine write?

Answer 31

Common Sense

Question 32

What does Paine believe the colonies should be a refuge from?

Answer 32

Tyrants and persecution

Question 33

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 33

Thomas Jefferson

Question 34

What day was the Declaration of Independence accepted/approved?

Answer 34

July 4, 1776

Question 35

What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 35

To explain why the colonies chose to form a new nation.

Question 36

Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 36

John Hancock

Question 37

What is the introduction of the Declaration of Independence called?

Answer 37

Declaration of Natural Rights

Question 38

Did the Declaration of Independence explain why the colonies chose to form a new nation?

Answer 38

Yes

Question 39

What was rung on July 8, 1776 at the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 39

The Liberty Bell