Chapter 7

Question 1

Americans had to provide food and supplies to British troops stationed in the colonies

Answer 1

Quartering Act

Question 2

Declared all of the colonies in open rebellion and suspended trade between North America and Britain

Answer 2

Prohibitory Act

Question 3

Idea that British would protect the colonies and provide trade opportunities, but other than that, the colonies were left to their own devices

Answer 3

Salutary Neglect

Question 4

Taxed virtually all printed material. Colonies argued “no taxation without representation”

Answer 4

Stamp Act

Question 5

British government established regulations and restrictions on molasses. This was not enforced

Answer 5

Molasses Act

Question 6

Designed to incorporate the French Canadians and their land into Britain’s colonial American Empire

Answer 6

Quebec Act

Question 7

Intended to subordinate American capital to British capital by preventing American businessmen from turning raw materials into finished commodities

Answer 7

Wool, Hat, Iron Acts

Question 8

Forbade colonists from printing their own currency and instead required them to use hard currency (gold and silver). All taxes had to be paid in hard currency as well.

Answer 8

Currency Act

Question 9

Attempted to control sugar trade between colonies and the Spanish and French West Indies. Also, the British wanted to punish smugglers.

Answer 9

Sugar (Revenue) Act

Question 10

Created to promote English Shipping and control colonial trade in regard to important crops and resources, which had to be shipped exclusively in British ships

Answer 10

Navigation Laws

Question 11

Created when the British East India Company was given a monopoly of the tea trade.

Answer 11

Tea Act

Question 12

Stated that Britain possessed the right to tax the colonists without challenge

Answer 12

Declaratory Act

Question 13

Closed the port of Boston, required the trials of royal officials accused of serious crimes to be held in Britain, and limited citizens’ right to organize freely

Answer 13

Intolerable Acts

Question 14

Created when Charles Townsend called for a tax on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea

Answer 14

Townsend Tea Tax

Question 15

Prohibited colonial migration and settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains

Answer 15

Proclamation of 1763

Question 16

Occurred when a crowd of Bostonians attacked British troops; the British opened fire, killing and wounding about eleven of the provokers

Answer 16

Boston Massacre

Question 17

King of England at the time of the American Revolution

Answer 17

George III

Question 18

Documents that allowed custom officials to search colonial homes, businesses, and warehouses for smuggled goods without a warrant from a judge

Answer 18

Writs of Assistance

Question 19

Colonists who fought for independence from the British

Answer 19

Patriots

Question 20

Distributed throughout the colonies and stated that the Townsend Acts needed to be replaced

Answer 20

Massachusetts Circular Letter

Question 21

Defended the British soldiers who took part in the Boston Massacre; he won the trial and was able to get acquittals for most of them

Answer 21

John Adams

Question 22

Document sent by the Second Continental Congress to the King England; they wanted him (for a second time) to consider colonial grievances

Answer 22

Declaration of Causes and Necessities of Taking Arms

Question 23

After Bunker Hill, the Continental Congress sent the __ to the King of Britain because they wanted to end the hostilities.

Answer 23

Olive Branch Petition

Question 24

Occurred when Bostonians disguised themselves as Native Americans and boarded tea ships and proceeded to throw the cargo into the Boston Harbor

Answer 24

Boston Tea Party

Question 25

Name given to the representatives from 9-13 colonies that met to discuss the Stamp Act

Answer 25

Stamp Act Congress

Question 26

Main leader of the Sons of Liberty

Answer 26

Samuel Adams

Question 27

Name given to the colonists who sided with the British

Answer 27

Loyalists/Tories