Chapter 5: The Road To Revolution

Question 1

Boycott

Answer 1

When people refuse to use or buy a product or service

Question 2

Petition

Answer 2

When a group of people sign a document as a form of protest

Question 3

Writs of Assistence

Answer 3

Allowed a house to be searched without telling the owner the reason

Question 4

Boston Massacre

Answer 4

When protesting colonists were shot after harassing soldiers

Question 5

Boston Tea Party

Answer 5

Protest against the Tea Act where colonists threw British tea in the ocean

Question 6

1st Continental Congress

Answer 6

When colonists discussed what they were doing about Britain

They decided to pass an embargo

Question 7

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 7

Didn’t allow colonists to cross the Appalachian Mountains

Question 8

Cause of French Indian War

Answer 8

England and France both wanted more land

Question 9

Why did Britain inforce taxes on the colonists?

Answer 9

Because they were in debt from the French Indian War

Question 10

Stamp Act

Answer 10

Tax on paper goods

Question 11

Tea Act

Answer 11

Forced colonists to buy tea from England

Question 12

Intolerable Acts

Answer 12

Closed Boston Port, Quartering Act, Put British Officials as governer, Colonists would be charged for crimes in England

Question 13

The Shot Heard Around The World

Answer 13

The battle of Lexington and Concord