Chapter 5 Key Terms

Question 1

Boston Massacre

Answer 1

a confrontation between a crowd of Bostonians and British soldiers on March 5, 1770,
which resulted in the deaths of five people, including Crispus Attucks, the first official casualty in the war
for independence

Question 2

Coercive Acts

Answer 2

four acts (Administration of Justice Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Port Bill,
Quartering Act) that Lord North passed to punish Massachusetts for destroying the tea and refusing to
pay for the damage

Question 3

Committees of Correspondence

Answer 3

colonial extralegal shadow governments that convened to coordinate
plans of resistance against the British

Question 4

Daughters of Liberty

Answer 4

well-born British colonial women who led a non-importation movement against
British goods

Question 5

direct tax

Answer 5

a tax that consumers pay directly, rather than through merchants’ higher prices

Question 6

indirect tax

Answer 6

a tax imposed on businesses, rather than directly on consumers

Question 7

Intolerable Acts

Answer 7

the name American Patriots gave to the Coercive Acts and the Quebec Act

Question 8

Loyalists

Answer 8

colonists in America who were loyal to Great Britain

Question 9

Massachusetts Circular

Answer 9

a letter penned by Son of Liberty Samuel Adams that laid out the
unconstitutionality of taxation without representation and encouraged the other colonies to boycott
British goods

Question 10

no taxation without representation

Answer 10

the principle, first articulated in the Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions,
that the colonists needed to be represented in Parliament if they were to be taxed

Question 11

non-importation movement

Answer 11

a widespread colonial boycott of British goods

Question 12

Proclamation Line

Answer 12

a line along the Appalachian Mountains, imposed by the Proclamation of 1763, west
of which British colonists could not settle

Question 13

Sons of Liberty

Answer 13

artisans, shopkeepers, and small-time merchants who opposed the Stamp Act and
considered themselves British patriots

Question 14

Suffolk Resolves

Answer 14

a Massachusetts plan of resistance to the Intolerable Acts that formed the basis of the
eventual plan adopted by the First Continental Congress for resisting the British, including the arming of
militias and the adoption of a widespread non-importation, non-exportation, and non-consumption
agreement

Question 15

vice-admiralty courts

Answer 15

British royal courts without juries that settled disputes occurring at sea