Chapter 5

Question 1

What does salutary neglect mean?

Answer 1

Great Britain treated the colonies with salutary neglect not strictly enforcing most laws.

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Made their own laws had lots of land and salutary neglect.

Question 3

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

Answer 3

The British had accumulated a large war debt after the French And Indian War so the put taxes to pay for it.

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

The sugar act lowered the tax on molasses to try and convince people to stop smuggling in 1764.

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

A tax placed 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

Was a secret society formed to protect the rights of the colonists and fight taxation by the British and was founded by Samuel Adams

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

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 goods before they arrived in the colonies

Question 13

Who owned the ship Liberty?

Answer 13

John Hancock

Question 14

What was required of colonial citizens when the Quartering Act was passed

Answer 14

To house British soldiers

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 people

Question 17

What Acts were repealed due to the Boston Massacre?

Answer 17

The Townsend Acts

Question 18

What occurs when only one company controls a product?

Answer 18

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

Intolerable Acts

Question 22

Were the Coercive Acts successful in isolating Boston?

Answer 22

Nope

Question 23

What is the name of the best militias in Massachusetts?

Answer 23

Minute Men

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 at Lexington

Question 26

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

Answer 26

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

Question 27

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

Answer 27

That defeating the Americans wouldn't be quick or easy.

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Loyalists

Question 29

Who were determined to fight the British until independence is gained

Answer 29

Patriots

Question 30

Who headed up the first post office in America

Answer 30

Benjamin Franklin

Question 31

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

Answer 31

The continental Army

Question 32

What pamphlet did Thomas Paine write?

Answer 32

Common Sense

Question 33

What does Paine believe the colonies should be a refuge from

Answer 33

Tyrants and persecution

Question 34

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence

Answer 34

Thomas Jefferson

Question 35

What day was the Declaration of Independence accepted/approved

Answer 35

July 4, 1776

Question 36

What is the introduction of the Declaration of Independence called

Answer 36

The Preamble

Question 37

What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 37

Was to explain why the colonies chose to from a new nation

Question 38

Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence

Answer 38

John Hancock

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Yes

Question 40

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

Answer 40

The Liberty Bell