Chapter 5: The American Revolution

Question 1

virtual representation

Answer 1

theory that held that each member of Parliament represented the entire empire, not just his own district

Question 2

writs of assistance

Answer 2

search warrants that allowed customs officials to search anywhere they chose for smuggled goods

Question 3

Sugar Act

Answer 3

(1764) Parliament’s tax on refined sugar and many other colonial products

Question 4

Committee of Correspondents

Answer 4

encouraged opposition to the Sugar and Currency Acts

Question 5

Sons of Liberty

Answer 5

led protest processions, posted notices “Liberty, Property, and No Stamps;” enforced boycott of British imports

Question 6

Regulators

Answer 6

groups of backcountry Carolina settlers who protested colonial policies

Question 7

Daughters of Liberty

Answer 7

women who spun and wove at home so as to not purchase British goods

Question 8

Boston Massacre

Answer 8

clash between British soldiers and a Boston mob, 3/15/1770, 5 colonists killed

Question 9

Boston Tea Party

Answer 9

on December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty, dressed as Indians, dumped hundreds of chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act of 1773

Question 10

Lord Dunmore

Answer 10

issued freedom to any slave who escaped his lines and bore arms for the King.

Question 11

Common Sense

Answer 11

a pamphlet anonymously written by Thomas Paine that attached the English principles of hereditary rule and monarchical government.

Question 12

Declaration of Independence

Answer 12

document adopted on July 4, 1776, that made the break with Britain official; drafted by a committee of the Second Continental Congress, including prinicpal writer Thomas Jefferson

Question 13

Treaty of Paris

Answer 13

(1783) negotiation between America and Britain

Question 14

A major blow in the relationship between the British and colonists occurred when Lord Dunmore proclaimed…

Answer 14

escaped African slaves who took up arms for the king of England would be freed

Question 15

Adding to Congress’s formal declaration, the Declaration of Independence…

Answer 15

declared the U.S. independent of British rule.

Question 16

British success in the Seven Years’ War contributed to the making of the American Revolution because…

Answer 16

the British government raised taxes to pay for the debt it incurred during the war.

Question 17

Committees of Correspondence in the colonies during the 1760s…

Answer 17

were a group of colonial elites who exchanged ideas and information about resistance to the Sugar, Currency, and Stamp Acts

Question 18

During the Seven Years’ War, Great Britain treated the colonists as allies, yet only a few years later…

Answer 18

the colonists were treated as subordinates again.

Question 19

Ignoring the Proclamation of 1763 enagled colonists to do what action in the Borderlands?

Answer 19

Expand westward.

Question 20

T or F: In Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of Independence, he berated the king regarding the continued inhumanity of the slave trade.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

T or F: Some slaves gained their freedom by serving as soldiers during the Revolution.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

South Carolina and Georgia were the two southern colonies that failed to take what action to help with the war?

Answer 22

Enroll free blacks and slaves to fight.

Question 23

The Carolina “Regulators” of the mid-1760s were…

Answer 23

a group of wealthy residents of the backcountry who protested the lack of courts and lack of representation in the colonial governance.

Question 24

The final decisive victory in the War for Independence was…

Answer 24

Cornwallis’s defeat at Yorktown.

Question 25

Thomas Paine’s January 1776 pamphlet ‘Common Sense’ argued that…

Answer 25

democracy and a written constitution were more preferable to monarchy.

Question 26

What did Jefferson in his Declaration of Independence blame England for doing with Indians…

Answer 26

enlisting them to fight with the British against the Americans.

Question 27

What did the 1766 Declaratory Act declare?

Answer 27

That Parliament had the power to pass laws for all the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”

Question 28

What happened to the Iroquois Confederacy during the American Revolutionary War?

Answer 28

Its members fought for both England and America.

Question 29

When colonists insisted that because they were not represented in Parliament they could not be taxed by the British government, the British replied that they were represented by…

Answer 29

virtual representation.

Question 30

Which of the following was a feature of the 1774 Intolerable Acts?

Answer 30

the suppression of town meetings and local elections.