History Exam Review Part2

Question 1

Crispus Attucks

Answer 1

Runaway slave killed in the Boston massacre

Question 2

Thomas Paine

Answer 2

Wrote common sense-significance: showed Americans didn’t owe allegiance to the king. Urged colonists to get away from England and to establish and American republic

Question 3

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 3

Drafted Declaration of Independence and was from Virginia

Question 4

Common sense by Paine

Answer 4

Attacking those that weren’t in America. It urged colonists to get away from England

Question 5

Albany plan of union( what did it say, who wrote it, and what did the cartoon say)

Answer 5

1. Created grand council
2. Raised taxes and army
3. Made treaties & established settlements
   Cartoon: join or die
   Written by Franklin

Question 6

Boycott

Answer 6

When u are banned from buying goods from someone else. Ex: Boston tea party, and Townsend acts

Question 7

Intolerable acts

Answer 7

Passed because of the Boston tea party

Question 8

Boston massacre significance

Answer 8

Townsend acts repealed and boycott worked

Question 9

Boston tea party

Answer 9

What: sons of Liberty dressed as natives and dumped tea overboard
What did this lead to: intolerable acts
Result: British had a tight clamp on the US

Question 10

What did James Otis jr say

Answer 10

No taxation without representation

Question 11

Declaration of Independence

Answer 11

July 4,1776 in Philadelphia by continental congress.

Found in unalienable rights. John Locke inspired Declaration of Independence

Question 12

First continental congress

Answer 12

Intolerable acts led to creation of this group

Question 13

French and Indian war

Answer 13

Led to treaty of Paris 1763

Question 14

Sam Adams

Answer 14

Against British policies; designed committees of correspondence

Question 15

Mercantilism and why was it used

Answer 15

Def:system of maintaining and creating wealth through carefully and controlled trade
Used: made sure more products were being sold by England then products being bought by England

Question 16

Olive branch petition

Answer 16

The colonists didn’t want to go to war with British so they made one more attempt at peace. The king squashed this idea

Question 17

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 17

Colonial reaction: colonists continues to ignore and they settle west of the Appalachian mtns
Purpose: Britain was in debt and didn’t have the extra money to protect the Ohio River valley

Question 18

2nd continental congress

Answer 18

People: Adams, Hancock, Franklin, Washington, Henry
What: discussed how to handle Britain, made an army, and made money
Significance: they started acting like a government

Question 19

Stamp act

Answer 19

What: required all legal and commercial documents to have a stamp
Significance: no taxation without representation, colonists gathered for stamp act congress

Question 20

Committees of correspondence

Answer 20

Made sure people didn’t forget the cause of Liberty. This linked the colonies

Question 21

Sugar act

Answer 21

What: placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies. There were strict punishments for smugglers
Significance: Otis said that taxation without representation is tyranny

Question 22

Tea act

Answer 22

What: gave the British East Indies company the power to sell only this tea in America. Boycott led to Boston massacre

Question 23

Townsend acts

Answer 23

Placed duties on glass, paper, paint, led, and tea to raise money
Significance: protested at the Boston massacre

Question 24

Unalienable rights

Answer 24

They are rights that can’t be taken away which are right to life, liberty, and property

Question 25

Treaty of Paris 1763(3 terms included)

Answer 25

1. British received land east of the Mississippi and Florida
2. France gives Spain New Orleans and land west of the Mississippi
3. French power is ended in the US

Question 26

Why did they colonies boycott

Answer 26

To get what they wanted and no tax

Question 27

Effects of French and Indian war

Answer 27

How did this impact British economic policies?

Britain was in debt and they took control of the colonies