Chapter 5 pt.1

Question 1

Sugar Act (An colonial reactions)

Answer 1

replaced the ignored Molasses Act, instead of having to pay for the sugar they now had to bribe for it like monopoly.

Question 2

Vice- admiralty courts

Answer 2

stricter court run by high appointed British judges. This benefited so that there were no more loopholes they took all custom offenses.

Question 3

Stamp Act 1765

Answer 3

a time where only colonists’ elected representatives could tax stamps this led to many angry mobs and people resigning.

Question 4

Virtual Representation

Answer 4

British thought that Americans were only interested in sugar plantation owners in the west indies

Question 5

Quartering Act

Answer 5

act to provide British troops with food and barracks. This helped the British when they were in Battle, so they wouldnt have to worry about their food supply etc.

Question 6

Sons of Liberty

Answer 6

Due to the stamp act the sons of liberty were a group that took their anger in a violent form. They burned down Oliver’s new brick warhouse

Question 7

Ideological Roots of Resistance

Answer 7

different forms of resistance.

English common law, natural rights and the republican and whig

Question 8

Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania

Answer 8

These letters were from Patriots s in Pennsylvania. They wrote about the issues of taxation.

Question 9

Phillis Wheatley

Answer 9

African slave who turned in a poet. her poems were praised by Washington and the Britain because she talked about her feelings toward everythiing

Question 10

Boston Massacre

Answer 10

street mob of patriots, this was to signify the problem of imperial power.

Question 11

Townshend Act

Answer 11

new tax legislation, it revived the constitutional debate towards taxation