Chapter 5 And 6

Question 1

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 1

Prohibited colonists from moving west of the Appalachian mountains.

Question 2

Describe the sugar act

Answer 2

Lowered tax on sugar (molasses) to reduce smuggling; allowed British soldiers to take goods from accused smugglers without a court order

Question 3

What was the effect of the sugar act?

Answer 3

Colonists thought it violated their right to a trial and to be secure in their homes

Question 4

Describe the stamp act

Answer 4

Increased tax on printed materials

Question 5

What was the effect of the stamp act?

Answer 5

Colonists argued that they could not be taxed without representation (no taxation equals no representation)

Question 6

Describe the townshed act

Answer 6

They taxed imported goods.

Question 7

What was the effect of the townshed act?

Answer 7

Colonists boycotted British goods.

Question 8

Describe the tea act.

Answer 8

Gave East India company total control over tea trade and removed some taxes on tea

Question 9

What was the effect of the tea act?

Answer 9

Colonists did not want to pay any tax or be told what tea they could buy and rebelled with the Boston Tea Party.

Question 10

Describe the Coercive acts

Answer 10

Punished colonists for resisting British authority

Question 11

What was the effect of the coercive acts?

Answer 11

Said the laws violated their rights as English citizens and renamed them the intolerable acts.

Question 12

What was the Boston massacre?

Answer 12

5 colonists are killed when fighting breaks out with British soldiers sent to monitor the rebellion. Colonists launch a propaganda campaign.

Question 13

Describe the Boston tea party

Answer 13

After colonists dump tea into the Boston harbor king George 3 thinks he is losing control of the colonists and passes the Coercive acts (intolerable acts)

Question 14

Describe the first continental congress

Answer 14

Delegates draft list of grievances against British laws, boycott British goods, and call on colonists to arm themselves against the British.

Question 15

Describe the early battles

Answer 15

British troops fight colonists at battles of Lexington and Concord and the British defeat colonial forces at bunker hill

Question 16

Describe the second continental congress

Answer 16

After Britain refuses to accept the olive branch petition the colonies move forward toward independence by drafting the Declaration of Independence

Question 17

What is the preamble?

Answer 17

The introduction which states of people want to form a new country the should list their reasons for doing so

Question 18

What was second in the Declaration of Independence

Answer 18

List of rights American citizens thought they should have

Question 19

What was third in the Declaration of Independence

Answer 19

List of grievances against the British king

Question 20

What was last in the Declaration of Independence

Answer 20

Announcement that the United States will be formed as a new and self governing nation

Question 21

What are loyalists?

Answer 21

Colonists who sided with Britain

They did not think the British taxes and laws justified a rebellion

They thought Britain would win the war and did not want to be on the losing side

Question 22

What are patriots?

Answer 22

Colonists who supported the war with Britain

Believed they had the right to govern themselves

We’re willing to fight to win independence

Question 23

What percent of people were loyalists, patriots, or neutralists?

Answer 23

20%- loyalist
40%- neutralist
40%- patriots

Question 24

What are advantages of the British?

Answer 24

Strongest navy in the world
Well trained soldiers
Great wealth
Large population

Question 25

What are advantages of the Americans?

Answer 25

Soldiers motivated by desire to gain freedom
Fighting was on own ground
Led by George Washington

Question 26

What are disadvantages of the British?

Answer 26

Soldiers not motivated by personal reasons
Had to ship soldiers and supplies from far away

Question 27

What are disadvantages of the Americans?

Answer 27

Weak navy
Lack of fighting experience
Small population
Shortage of weapons and supplies
Some colonists remained loyal to Britain

Question 28

What was the result of the battles of Lexington and Concord?

Answer 28

8 minutemen killed in Lexington. Concord, British took heavy losses: 73 killed 174 wounded

Question 29

What we’re the results of the battle of Saratoga?

Answer 29

American army surrounds Burgoyne and his forces in New York. British forced to surrender. Turning point of war, convinces France to join the Americans.

Question 30

What we’re the results of the Battle of Yorktown

Answer 30

With help from the French the Americans trap Cornwallis and his men at Yorktown, Virginia, and cut off supplies and communication. This victory for the Americans convinced the British they could not win the war.

Question 31

What we’re the British terms at the end of the war?

Answer 31

Britain recognizes the United States as an independent nation
They promise to withdraw all their troops from American territory
They grant fishing rights off the coast of Canada.

Question 32

What we’re the American terms at the end of the war?

Answer 32

The United States promises that Americans will pay off their debts to British merchants

New states will return property taken from loyalists (stolen)

Question 33

What year was the treaty of Paris?

Answer 33

1783