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

Made own laws, land owners, solitary neglect

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Smuggling

Question 4

How was the Sugar Act supposed to stop smuggling?

Answer 4

Lowered the taxes in Molasses

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Innocent until proven guilty

Question 6

What was the Stamp Act?

Answer 6

Placed a tax on almost all printed material in the colonies

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Patrick Henry

Question 8

What was the purpose of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 8

A secret society formed to protect the rights of colonists & fight taxation by the British and war

Question 9

Who was the founder of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 9

Samuel Adams

Question 10

What was important about the Declaratory Act?

Answer 10

Stated that England had the right too tax the colonists in cases

Question 11

What was important about the Townshend Acts?

Answer 11

Taxed imported goods before they arrived in the colonies

Question 12

Who owned the ship Liberty?

Answer 12

John Hancock

Question 13

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

Answer 13

House British soldiers

Question 14

What is information designed to influence opinion?

Answer 14

Boston massacre

Question 15

How many people were killed at the Boston Massacre?

Answer 15

5 people

Question 16

What Acts were repealed due to the Boston Massacre?

Answer 16

Town shed acts

Question 17

What occurs when only one company controls a product

Answer 17

Monopoly

Question 18

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

Answer 18

The Boston tea party

Question 19

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

Answer 19

British empire

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Closed Boston barber till all tea was paid for

Question 21

Were the Coercive Acts successful in isolating Boston?

Answer 21

No

Question 22

What is the name of the best militias in Massachusetts?

Answer 22

Minutemen

Question 23

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

Answer 23

The regulars are coming out

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Battle of Lexington

Question 25

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

Answer 25

William Prescott "don't fire until you see he whites in their eyes"

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Loyalist

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Patriots

Question 28

Who headed up the first post office in America?

Answer 28

Benjamin franklin

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Continental congress

Question 30

What pamphlet did Thomas Paine write?

Answer 30

Common sense

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Tyrants & persecution

Question 32

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 32

Thomas Jefferson

Question 33

What day was the Declaration of Independence accepted/approved?

Answer 33

July 4th

Question 34

What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 34

To explain why the colonists chose to form a new nation

Question 35

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

Answer 35

John Hancock

Question 36

What is the introduction of the Declaration of Independence called?

Answer 36

Preamble

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Yes

Question 38

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

Answer 38

The liberty bell

Question 39

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

Answer 39

To help pay off their debts

Question 40

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

Answer 40

The Boston massacre

Question 41

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

Answer 41

That defeating the Americans wouldn't be quick or easy