chapter 5

Question 1

Currency Act of 1764

Answer 1

banned the American colonies from using paper money as legal tender

Question 2

Sugar Act of 1764

Answer 2

Replaced the widely ignored Molasses Act of 1733

settled on a duty of 3 pence per gallon

Question 3

vice-admiralty courts

Answer 3

tribunals governing the high seas and run by British appointed judges

Question 4

Stamp Act of 1765

Answer 4

November 1, 1765-
Requires a tax on all printed items
college diplomas, court documents, land titles etc

Question 5

Quartering Act of 1765

Answer 5

required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops in America

Question 6

Stamp Act Congress

Answer 6

A congress of delegates from 9 assemblies that met in New York City on October 1765 to protect the rights and liberties especially the right to trial by jury. The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp Act and Sugar Act by declaring that only the colonists elected representatives could tax them

Question 7

The Cause of the People

Answer 7

Near Wethersfield, Connecticut 500 farmers seized tax collector Jared Ingersoll and forced him to resign his office

Question 8

English Common Law

Answer 8

1st of 3 intellectual traditions

centuries old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the monarch’s subjects

Question 9

Natural rights

Answer 9

2nd of 3 intellectual traditions

Life, liberty and property

Question 10

Declaratory Act of 1766

Answer 10

Earl of Rockingham forged a compromise by repealing the Stamp Act and reaffirmed Parliament’s full power and authority to make laws and statues to bind the colonies and people of America in all cases whatsoever

Question 11

Townshend Act of 1767

Answer 11

imposed duties on colonial imports of paper, paint, glass and tea that were expected to raise aboutL40,000 a year

Question 12

nonimportation movement

Answer 12

American women reduced their households consumption of imported goods and produced large quantities of homespun cloth

Question 13

non importation movement

Answer 13

American women reduced their households consumption of imported goods and produced large quantities of homespun cloth

Question 14

popular sovereignty

Answer 14

ultimate power lies in the hand of the electorate

Question 15

virtual representation

Answer 15

The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters) who owned estates in the West Indies.

Question 16

Sons of Liberty

Answer 16

colonists- primarily middling merchants and artisans- who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other Imperial reforms of the 1760s the group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies

Question 17

committees of correspondence

Answer 17

a communications network established among towns in the colonies and among colonial assemblies, between 1772-1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments

Question 18

Tea Act of May 1773

Answer 18

British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it. Resistance to the tea act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Mass.

Question 19

Coercive Acts

Answer 19

4 British Acts of 1774 meant to punish Mass. for the destruction of 3 shiploads of tea. Known in America as the Intolerable Acts, they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.

Question 20

Continental Congress

Answer 20

September 1774- gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia- discuss crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts. Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to a limited boycott of trade with Britain

Question 21

Continental Association

Answer 21

established in 1774 by First Continental Congress to enforce the boycott of British goods

Question 22

Dunmore’s war

Answer 22

1774 War led by Virginias royal governor, Earl of Dunmore-
against Ohio Shawnees (had a long standing claim to Kentucky for hunting ground) Shawnees defeated and Dunmore claimed Kentucky

Question 23

Minute men

Answer 23

colonial militiamen ready to go at a minutes notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s. Volunteers formed the core of the citizens army that met the British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775

Question 24

Second Continental Congress

Answer 24

legislative body governing the US from May 1775- wars duration.
Established an army, money and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone

Question 25

Declaration of Independence

Answer 25

A document that declared separation from Britain. Adopted by 2nd Continental Congress on July 4 1776.