Chapter 5 history study guide

Question 1

Magna Carta

Answer 1

Limited power to the ruler

Question 2

Parliament

Answer 2

Made of representatives, across england, became a law making body

Question 3

Glorious Revolution

Answer 3

Being forced out of the throne without blood shed

Question 4

English bill of rights

Answer 4

The power to make the laws was given to the representatives in parliament

Question 5

First Great Awakening

Answer 5

A religious movement where preachers presented powerful sermons and preaching salvation (“God sees all PURITANS equally”)

Question 6

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 6

when king George the 3rd drew a line down the crest of the Appalachian mountains to stop the colonists and the native Americans from killing each other (colonists weren’t happy)

Question 7

Before Proclamation of 1763

Answer 7

British facing a ton of problems after the french and Indian war (native Americans and colonists were killing each other)

Question 8

Stamp act

Answer 8

Tax on every piece of paper the colonists used. Colonists got mad and started attacking tax collectors.

Question 9

The quartering act

Answer 9

Tax on everything ( new York decided not to vote on vinegar and liquor) British reacted by refusing an assembly request until new york would obey the quartering act.

Question 10

Townshend acts

Answer 10

Tax placed on certain goods the colonists imported from Britain (popular items are GLASS, PAINT, PAPER, AND TEA)

Question 11

The Boston massacre

Answer 11

• problems happen in Boston
• government send 4 soldiers ( weren’t allowed to fire )
• march 5th 1770 mob throw ice balls and rocks
• soldiers got scared and opened fire

Question 12

Tea act

Answer 12

giving the colonies cheaper tea ( less expensive than dutch tea even with tax)

Question 13

Boston tea party

Answer 13

Sons of liberty dressed up as Indians snuck on the British ships and dumped the tea in the harbor

Question 14

Intolerable act

Answer 14

punish the colonist for the Boston tea party

(3 laws)
- close Boston harbor until all tea was paid for
- colony of Massachusetts firmly under British control
- British soldiers accused of murder would be tried in England

Question 15

Lexington and concord

Answer 15

The British marched into Lexington and concord intending to get the hidden weapons from the colonists (first battle of the revolutionary war)

Question 16

Charlie Townshend

Answer 16

Named champagne charlie because he had a bad habit of giving speeches in the parliament right after he drank

Question 17

Crispus Attucks

Answer 17

Two bullets struck Crispus Attucks during the Boston massacre (large black man,front of the crowd, first but not last to die)

Question 18

Edward Braddock

Answer 18

unsuccessful British commander/ lost french and indian war

Question 19

first continental congress

Answer 19

Colonies met in Philadelphia/ only agreement is that they love liberty and their hate of tyranny/ wrote messages to the king to realize their rights

Question 20

George Washington

Answer 20

Amazing hero/ joined the army as a volunteer/ ohio valley was a disaster/ ended up leading the survivors back to virginia.

Question 21

Lord north

Answer 21

prime minister of great Britain/ Convinced parliament to repeal all of townshead acts except for tax on tea

Question 22

militia

Answer 22

immediate defense/also be used as a medical pool

Question 23

paul revere

Answer 23

alerted the colonists that British were coming

Question 24

Sam Adams

Answer 24

Help sons of liberty/ tried to get the british troops out of the colonies

Question 25

tories

Answer 25

colonists that supported/ loyal to Britain

Question 26

Whigs

Answer 26

patriots that support the american revolution