History 2 - Sheet1

Question 1

writs of assistance

Answer 1

search warrants to enter homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods

Question 2

Patriots

Answer 2

American colonist who sided with the rebels in the American Revolution

Question 3

Loyalists

Answer 3

American colonist who supported the British in the American Revolution

Question 4

Neutralist

Answer 4

someone who didn’t side with the British or the rebels

Question 5

revenue

Answer 5

income a government collects to cover expenses

Question 6

boycott

Answer 6

a refusal to buy certain goods

Question 7

militia

Answer 7

force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community during the American Revolution

Question 8

artillery

Answer 8

a cannon or large gun

Question 9

James Otis

Answer 9

man that argued in court against illegal search warrants

Question 10

King George III

Answer 10

British monarch

Question 11

Patrick Henry

Answer 11

member of Virginia’s House of Burgesses who called for resistance against the Stamp Act.

Question 12

Samuel Adams

Answer 12

a leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty. He urged colonists to resist British controls.

Question 13

Crispus Attucks

Answer 13

hero for America’s struggle for freedom. Lost his life during the Boston Massacre while he was protesting. He was half African-American and half Native American

Question 14

John Adams

Answer 14

defended the soldiers who fired the shots during the Boston Massacre.

Question 15

Paul Revere, William Dawes, Samuel Prescott

Answer 15

three minutemen who opposed British control.

Question 16

Sons of Liberty

Answer 16

group of colonists who staged protests against the Stamp Act.

Question 17

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 17

said that colonists could not settle past the Appalachians and those already there were to make peace with the natives.

Question 18

Sugar Act

Answer 18

placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other goods.

Question 19

Quartering Act

Answer 19

required colonists to house British soldiers and provide them with supplies.

Question 20

Stamp Act

Answer 20

required all documents, newspapers, contracts, wills, and other things to have an official stamp showing that a tax was paid.

Question 21

Declaratory Act

Answer 21

act that repealed the Stamp Act

Question 22

Townshend Act

Answer 22

mainly made to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges

Question 23

Intolerable Acts

Answer 23

passed in response to the Boston Tea Party. They closed the port of Boston until colonists paid for the destroyed tea.

Question 24

Boston Massacre

Answer 24

Occurred on March 5, 1770. Soldiers fired at protestors and killed 8 men.

Question 25

Boston Tea Party

Answer 25

Occurred on December 16, 1773. Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest against the Tea Act

Question 26

First Continental Congress

Answer 26

Met in Philadelphia. Voted to ban all trade with Britain until the Intolerable Acts were repealed. Also told colonies to start training troops. They also planned protests.

Question 27

Battles at Lexington and Concord

Answer 27

First battles of the Revolutionary War. It was called the shot heard around the world because it changed the world as we know it.

Question 28

No Taxation Without Representation

Answer 28

many people in the Thirteen colonies believed that since they were not directly represented by the British Parliament any taxes passed were illegal under the Bill of Rights of 1689