Chapter 6

Question 1

gaspee

Answer 1

British customs ships

Question 2

Committee of correspondence

Answer 2

Provided info on British threats to liberty to other areas of the colony

Question 3

tea act of 1773

Answer 3

Granted the east India company a monopoly on shipment and sale of British tea in America

Question 4

Boston tea party

Answer 4

Patriots disguised as mohawk Indians, and dumped 342 large cases of tea destroyed nothing but the tea

Question 5

loyalist

Answer 5

Pro-British colonists

Question 6

coercive acts

Answer 6

Parliaments four acts intended to punish the troublesome colony

Question 7

act one

Answer 7

Close harbor until cost of destroyed tea was repaid

Question 8

act two

Answer 8

Officials had to be appointed by royal governors rather than elected, and the town meetings were allowed only with governor’s approval

Question 9

act three

Answer 9

British officials accused of committing crimes had to be tried outside Massachusetts

Question 10

Act four

Answer 10

Required housing and feeding of British soldiers in private homes

Question 11

intolerable acts

Answer 11

Passed by patriots who refused to be coerced, hardened opposition, and created unprecedent sense of unity among the colonies

Question 12

Quebec act

Answer 12

Directed at British Canada, set up a rigid political system, made Roman Catholicism the official religion of Quebec, extended boundaries southward to Ohio river

Question 13

first continental congress

Answer 13

Made of representatives from all colonies, except Georgia, gathered in Philadelphia’s Carpenter Hall

Question 14

Minutemen

Answer 14

special units of militiamen, formed quick first line of defense in case the British invaded the countryside

Question 15

Patrick Henry

Answer 15

Rose to address fellow legislators with powerful words that would soon be confirmed by blood

Question 16

Paul Revere

Answer 16

sent by patriots to warn the colonists in Lexington

Question 17

Lexington and Concord

Answer 17

many patriots died during the battle, but America won

Question 18

Paxton boys

Answer 18

Scots Irish people living in the backcountry of Pennsylvania, accused peaceful Indians of being spies and killed them

Question 19

regulators

Answer 19

North Carolina residents who did not like the upper– class leaders

Question 20

militia

Answer 20

citizen soldiers, part–time fighters

Question 21

regulars

Answer 21

Professional, full-time soldiers

Question 22

Paul Revere

Answer 22

staged a midnight ride toward the colonists

Question 23

Lexington and Concord

Answer 23

The villages where colonists skirmished with British troops firing the first shots of what became the war for independence

Question 24

Patriots

Answer 24

Americans who fought for independence

Question 25

Tories

Answer 25

Loyalists

Question 26

Hessians

Answer 26

British-paid German soldiers

Question 27

Second continental congress

Answer 27

Gathering of delegates in Philadelphia

Question 28

Fort Ticonderoga

Answer 28

Located in New York, fell to patriot forces known as green mountain boys

Question 29

Ethan Allen

Answer 29

Commanded the green mountain boys with the help from Benedict Arnold

Question 30

George Washington

Answer 30

Asked to take charge of continental army

Question 31

bunker hill

Answer 31

On Charleston peninsula north of Boston; patriots built forts here; British won at a cost

Question 32

Breed’s hill

Answer 32

Site where most of the fighting took place

Question 33

Henry Knox

Answer 33

Went to fort Ticonderoga and retrieved the captured British Cannon

Question 34

Olive branch petition

Answer 34

A document that pledged loyalty to the king

Question 35

common sense

Answer 35

Pamphlet published by Thomas Paine, put patriot ideas into words that fired their will

Question 36

Thomas Paine

Answer 36

The author of common sense

Question 37

John Adams

Answer 37

Appointed to draw up a declaration in support of Lee’s resolution

Question 38

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 38

The primary author of the declaration of independence

Question 39

declaration of independence

Answer 39

document approved by the second continental congress. listed the grievances that Americans had against the king and stated the universal principles that would shape the character and direction of the emerging nation