Chapter 6 Section 1-3

Question 1

When was the Ohio company formed and who formed it?

Answer 1

Lawrence and Augustine Washington formed it in 1747

Question 2

Who is Robert Dinwiddie?

Answer 2

He was royal governor of Virginia who who himself was a shareholder of the Ohio Company

Question 3

What did Robert Dinwiddie do in 1753?

Answer 3

He sent a messenger to the French to warn them that they were trespassing on Virginia land

Question 4

Who was the messenger that Robert Dinwiddie sent?

Answer 4

George Washington

Question 5

What did George Washington do in the spring of 1754?

Answer 5

He set out with 160 Virginians and a small group of Mingo Indians to the French in the Ohio country

Question 6

What was the conference of Albany?

Answer 6

The meeting between all 6 Iroquois tribes and 24 delegates from 7 colonies to secure the Indians help against the French

Question 7

Who was General Edward Braddock?

Answer 7

A British General who lead an army to Fort Duquesne in Western Pennsylvania

Question 8

What was the outcome of the battle at Fort Duquesne?

Answer 8

The French came prepared and killed nearly 1,000 British soldiers including General Braddock

Question 9

What turned the war around in 1757?

Answer 9

When William Pitt became Britain’s prime minister

Question 10

End of 1762

Answer 10

France and Spain surrender and sign Treaty of Paris in 1763

Question 11

1763

Answer 11

Britain’s national debt doubles what it had been when Pitt took office

Question 12

What was the “Seven Years War”?

Answer 12

War between French and British that ended with British domination of North America; known in America as the French and Indian War.

Question 13

What was Pontiac’s Rebellion?

Answer 13

A coordinated uprising of Native American tribes in 1763 in the Northwest after the end of the Seven Years’ War.

Question 14

Who were the Paxton Boys?

Answer 14

A group of violent Pennsylvania vigilantes that attacked a peaceful Conestoga village

Question 15

Who was George Greenville?

Answer 15

He was the British prime minister from 1763-1765 and created the first provocative revenue acts

Question 16

What was the Molasses Act of 1733

Answer 16

A stiff tax policy of 6 pence per gallon on any molasses imported to the British colonies from non-British sources

Question 17

What was the Sugar (Revenue) Act?

Answer 17

A 1764 British law decreased the duty on French molasses, making it easier for shippers to obey the law, and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling. It maintained trade but was also intended to raise revenue.

Question 18

From the British point of view, how did they view the Proclamation of 1763 and Sugar Acts?

Answer 18

They viewed it as a reasonable way to administer the colonies

Question 19

How did the Americans view British supervision?

Answer 19

They viewed it to be a disturbing intrusion into colonial practices of self taxation by elected colonial assemblies

Question 20

What was the Stamp Act?

Answer 20

1765 British law imposing a tax on all paper used for official documents, for the purpose of raising revenue. Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act led to its repeal in 1766.

Question 21

What is the difference between the Stamp Act and Sugar Act?

Answer 21

The Sugar Act was meant to regulate trade while the Stamp Act was meant to make money

Question 22

What was the average salary for a stamp distributor?

Answer 22

8% of revenue collected

Question 23

Who was the only person that could grant the king to demand for money?

Answer 23

The House of Commons

Question 24

What is virtual representation?

Answer 24

The theory that all British subjects were represented in Parliament, whether they had elected representatives in that body or not.

Question 25

What did the Americans think of virtual representation?

Answer 25

They rejected the idea because they believed that only direct representatives had the right to tax colonies

Question 26

When did the news of the Stamp Act arrive to the colonies?

Answer 26

April 1765

Question 27

What were the Virginia Resolves?

Answer 27

The Virginia Resolves were a series of resolutions created by Patrick Henry, passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses in response to the Stamp Act of 1765.

Question 28

What did the first 3 resolutions of the Virginia Resolves state?

Answer 28

that Virginians were British citizens, that they enjoyed the same
rights and privileges as Britons

Question 29

What did the 4th resolution of the Virginia Resolves state?

Answer 29

That Virginians had always taxed themselves, through their representatives in the House of Burgesses

Question 30

What did the 5th resolution of the Virginia Resolves state?

Answer 30

That the Virginia assembly alone had the right to tax Virginians

Question 31

What did the 6th resolution of the Virginia Resolves state?

Answer 31

It denied legitimacy to any tax law originating outside Virginia

Question 32

What did the 7th resolution of the Virginia Resolves state?

Answer 32

That anyone who disagreed with these propositions was considered an enemy

Question 33

Who were the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 33

They were a resistance of American colonists created within the 13 colonies. They were formed to protect rights of colonists and to fight taxation

Question 34

Who were the leaders of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 34

Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Ebenezer Macintosh

Question 35

October 1765

Answer 35

Twenty-seven delegates representing nine colonial assemblies met in New York City as the Stamp Act Congress.

Question 36

Declaratory Acts

Answer 36

1766 law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament’s unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies

Question 37

What are the Townshend Duties?

Answer 37

British law that established new duties on tea, glass, lead, paper, and painters’ colors imported into the colonies.

Question 38

What was the official name of the Townshend Duties?

Answer 38

Revenue Act of 1767

Question 39

What did Lord Hillsborough instruct the governor of Massachusetts Bernard to do in response to Adams’s letter?

Answer 39

Lord Hillsborough instructed Bernard to dissolve the assembly if it refused to fulfill the letter

Question 40

What did the assembly do about the letter?

Answer 40

It refused the letter and Bernard dissolved the assembly

Question 41

What was the reaction of the people of Boston when the assembly had been dissolved?

Answer 41

It was in complete uproar

Question 42

What did the people of Boston agree to do after the assembly was dissolved?

Answer 42

They boycotted on all British-made goods

Question 43

What did Boston merchants agree to do as a result of the boycotts?

Answer 43

They suspended trade with the British through a non-importation agreements

Question 44

Who were the Daughters of Liberty?

Answer 44

Women in favor of the rebellion that made clothes during boycott

Question 45

True or False. Were the anti-British boycotts successful?

Answer 45

True, imports fell by more than 40%

Question 46

What is the Boston Massacre?

Answer 46

March 1770 incident in Boston in which British soldiers fired on an American crowd, killing five. The Boston Massacre became a rallying point for colonists who increasingly saw the British government
as tyrannical and illegitimate.