Chapter 5 Test (Stump)

Question 1

What 21-year old British major in the Virginian militia was under orders to go to claim the land?

Answer 1

George Washington

Question 2

What is a militia?

Answer 2

Military volunteer

Question 3

1) What was the goal of the “Albany Congress” and the “Albany Plan of Union?”
2) what man tries to lead this effort?

Answer 3

1) To work out a plan to defend themselves against the British
2)Benjamin Franklin

Question 4

What is an alliance?

Answer 4

Agreement between nations

Question 5

What Native American tribe initial refused to help the British?

Answer 5

Iroquois

Question 6

What capital of New France was captures the British in 1759 that practical ended the war?

Answer 6

Quebec

Question 7

1) what piece treaty ended the war?
2) what lands did the French cede to the British?
3) what dies cede mean?

Answer 7

1) treaty of Paris
2) everything eat of the Mississippi River
3) give up

Question 8

What “war” continued to safe after the French and Indian war was over?

Answer 8

Pontiac’s war

Question 9

1) What law did the British pass to try to keep colonist out of the Ohio river valley?
2) How did most colonist react to the law?

Answer 9

1) Proclamation of 1763
2) they ignored it

Question 10

1) First law was passed in 1764 to pay back the dead of the French and Indian war?
2) What other law was passed that required colonist to house and feed British soldiers?

Answer 10

1)Sugar act
2) quarter act

Question 11

1)What new tax law in 1765 make honest boycott paper that were used in legal documents such as newspapers?
2) What is a boycott?
3) What is a petition?

Answer 11

1) Stamp Act
2) stamp Act organize campaign to refuse to buy certain products
3) A written request to the government

Question 12

1) What Virginian house of burgess member gave a theory speech about liberty after this tax?
2) What is his most famous quote from the speech?

Answer 12

1) Patrick Henry
2)Patrick Henry give me liberty or give me death

Question 13

1) What event happened on March 5, 1770?
2) What mean defended the British soldiers in court even though she did not want British soldiers in Boston?

Answer 13

1) Boston massacre
2) John Adams

Question 14

What is the total control of an economic market or a certain product

Answer 14

Monopoly

Question 15

What event took place on December 6, 1773 in response to the new law led by the sons of liberty protest group?

Answer 15

Boston tea party

Question 16

1) What was the name given to the laws passed that all of this event?
2) What were the four laws?

Answer 16

1) intolerable acts
2) Close the port of Boston, Increase the powers of the royal governor, abolish the upper house of the Massachusetts legislator, and strengthen the quartering act

Question 17

1) What group met in Philadelphia In 1764 to decide how to get Britain \ to repeal these new laws?
2) What does repeal mean?

Answer 17

1) First continental congress
2) cancel

Question 18

What was the shot heard around the world?

Answer 18

The start of the revolutionary war

Question 19

At what two small towns outside of Boston to the American revolution begin?

Answer 19

Lexington and Concorde

Question 20

What group met again in Philadelphia to discuss events near Boston in May 1775?

Answer 20

Second continental congress

Question 21

Briefly describe the difference between a patriot and loyalist

Answer 21

Patriot- Favorite independence and we’re willing to fight for it
Loyalist- remained loyal to Britain in the king

1/3 Patriot, loyalist, neutral

Question 22

1) What document did the second continental congress induction George the third and parliament to petition for peace?
2) How did King George the third react?

Answer 22

1) Olive branch petition
2) He ignored it in the clear that the colonies were an open rebellion

Question 23

1)At what fort did the colonies win in early surprise victory near Lake Champlain in Vermont?
2) What man and his group captured the fort?

Answer 23

1) Fort Ticonderoga
2) Ethan Allen in the green mountain boys

Question 24

1) What was the first major battle of the revolutionary war?
2) Who sort of won the battle?
3) What the British army finally decide to do?

Answer 24

1) Battle of bunker hill
2) The British
3) Abandon Boston to protect Canada

Question 25

1) What is a blockade?
2) Who were mercenaries?

Answer 25

1) Lockport see you can’t get goods in or out
2) Soldiers who served another country for money