Chapter 5 Packet Questions

Question 0

What is boycotting?

Answer 0

Refuse to buy foreign goods

Question 1

What is revenue?

Answer 1

Incoming money

Question 2

What is a militia?

Answer 2

Civilians trained to fight in emergencies

Question 3

What are patriots?

Answer 3

People who fight for the American cause

Question 4

What is a resolution?

Answer 4

A formal expression of opinion

Question 5

What is nonimportation?

Answer 5

Agreements

Question 6

What are minutemen?

Answer 6

Militia that could be ready to fight in a minutes notice

Question 7

What is a petition?

Answer 7

A formal request

Question 8

What is an effigy?

Answer 8

A rag figure representing an unpopular individual

Question 9

What does repeal mean?

Answer 9

To cancel an act or law

Question 10

What is a Loyalist?

Answer 10

People who remained loyal to Britain

Question 11

What is a preamble?

Answer 11

The introduction to a formal document, especially in the Constitution

Question 12

What are writs of assistance?

Answer 12

A legal document that enabled officers to search homes and warehouses for goods that might be smuggled

Question 13

What is propaganda?

Answer 13

Ideas or information designed and spread to influence opinion

Question 14

What is the Committee of Correspondance?

Answer 14

An organization that spread political ideas through the colonies

Question 15

What was the Stamp Act?

Answer 15

An act that placed a tax on almost all printed materials in the colony, everything from newspapers and pamphlets to wills and playing cards

Question 16

What was the Sugar Act?

Answer 16

Wanted to stop smuggling, lowered the tax on molasses imported by the colonists, also let officers seize goods from smugglers without going to court

Question 18

What is the Continental Congress?

Answer 18

Started in September 1774, 55 men came from all colonies except Georgia, came to establish a political body to represent American interests and challenge British control

Question 19

Who was George Washington?

Answer 19

A delegate in the Continental Congress, great general in the Revolutionary War, became first president in the US after the Revolutionary War

Question 20

What was the Townshend Act?

Answer 20

Acts passed in 1767, applied only to imported goods, ie: glass, tea, paper, and lead, with the tax being paid at the port of entry, had to import these because the colonists could not produce them, started the Daughters of Liberty

Question 21

What was the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 21

An event in which the Boston Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded the British boats that carried tea to the colonies and dumped 342 chests of tea overboard, occurred on December 16, 1773

Question 22

What was the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 22

A document that stated the complaints of the colonists, Written by Thomas Jefferson, edited by Benjamin Franklin, contained 4 parts, the preamble, next 2 sections are a list of rights and complaints, last section proclaims existence of new nation, approved on July 4, 1776

Question 23

Who was Benjamin Franklin?

Answer 23

A colonist who was an inventor, writer, and a scientist, edited Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of Independence

Question 24

What was Concord?

Answer 24

Another battle site, April 19,1775, the British wanted to seize ammunition, so the citizens fired on the British soldiers while they were marching to Concord

Question 25

What was the Boston Massacre?

Answer 25

An event when five colonists were killed by British soldiers in Boston, when soldiers fired on them. One of the people killed was Crispus Attucks

Question 26

Who was King George?

Answer 26

King of Britain during the Revolutionary War and the events after, taxed the colonists to make back the money that was spent on the war