Chapter 8

Question 1

repeal

Answer 1

to cancel

Question 2

loyalists

Answer 2

Colonists who remained loyal to the British during the American Revolution

Question 3

Tea Act

Answer 3

Law passed by Parliament in the early 1770’s stating that only the East India Company, a British business, could sell tea to the 13 colonies.

Question 4

Stamp Act

Answer 4

Law passed by Parliament in 1765 that taxed printed materials in the 13 colonies.

Question 5

Boston Massacre

Answer 5

Event in 1770 in Boston in which British soldiers killed 5 colonists who were part of an angry group that had surrounded them.

Question 6

militias

Answer 6

Volunteer armies

Question 7

Townshend Acts

Answer 7

Laws passed by parliament in 1767 that taxed goods imported by the 13 colonies from Britain

Question 8

tariff

Answer 8

Tax on imported goods.

Question 9

minutemen

Answer 9

Colonial militia group that could be ready to fight at a minute’s notice.

Question 10

boycott

Answer 10

Organized refusal to buy goods.

Question 11

Patriots

Answer 11

American colonists who opposed British rule

Question 12

American Revolution

Answer 12

The war between the 13 colonies and Great Britain from 1775 to 1783 in shich the 13 colonies won their independence and became the United States.

Question 13

Britain needed money so they imposed the ______Act and the ______Act on the Colonists.

Answer 13

Stamp

Townsend

Question 14

He organized the Sons of Liberty.

Answer 14

Samual Adams

Question 15

Making tea and weaving cloth are what the ____did to support the boycott of British goods.

Answer 15

Daughters of Liberty

Question 16

He was one of the first to speak out against the Stamp Act.

Answer 16

Pattrick Henry

Question 17

The purpose of the Committees of Correspondence was to ______

Answer 17

Share news among the colonies

Question 18

The effect of British taxation on the colonies as a whole was they started to ___.

Answer 18

unite as Americans.

Question 19

The Boston Tea Party expressed the views of many colonists by showing that the colonists ________________________.

Answer 19

Strongly protested the tea tax.

Question 20

The Boston Tea Party caused ___________.

Answer 20

the Intolerable Acts

Question 21

He was the Patriot that warned of the British attack.

Answer 21

Paul Revere

Question 22

Name 3 Intolerable Acts:

Answer 22

1. Colonists had to house British soldiers.
2. The port of Boston closed.
3. Massachussetts was put under the rule of Brittan.

Question 23

The battle of Lexington began with “The ________________________________”

Answer 23

shot heard all around the world.”

Question 24

A _____________________ is a colonist opposed to British rule

Answer 24

patriot

Question 25

The Battle of Concord forced the British to ______________________to Boston

Answer 25

retreat

Question 26

He offered to lead men in battle for the relief of Boston

Answer 26

George Washington

Question 27

He led the colonists in the battle of Bunker Hill

Answer 27

William Prescott

Question 28

Why was “No taxation without representation” a meaningful slogan?

Answer 28

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Question 29

17. What did Patrick Henry mean by his declaration(statement), “Give me liberty or give me death”?

Answer 29

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Question 30

Sequence the following events in order that linked the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party.
_____British imposed taxes on the colonists
_____the colonists protested and caused the Boston Tea Party
_____ British repealed all taxes, but the tea tax
_____British soldiers panicked during the protest
_____this caused the Boston Massacre

Answer 30

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