Lesson 6

Question 1

Law of nature

Answer 1

Contains universally obligatory standards of justice and would prevail in the absence of man made law

Question 2

Sovereignty

Answer 2

Authority

Question 3

Writs of assistance

Answer 3

General warrants

Question 4

After 1763

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British exerted more control over American colonies

Question 5

Britain incurred large debts to gain its victory over the

Answer 5

French in the Seven years war

Question 6

Proclamation act forbade colonial authorities to allow

Answer 6

Settlement on Indian lands wear is Appalachian mts

Question 7

Proclamation act aimed at reducing

Answer 7

Costs of protecting colonists from wars produced with native Americans

Question 8

Stamp act introduced a

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Tax on the colonists by imposing duties on stamps needed for official documents

Question 9

Quartering act required colonists to

Answer 9

Shelter British troops in their homes

Question 10

New trade restrictions and taxes meant the

Answer 10

Loss of money for some colonists

Question 11

Colonists understanding of

Answer 11

Representative government was challenged

Question 12

Colonists believed that tax laws should be passed only in

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Their colonial legislatures, where they were represented

Question 13

Small groups in each colony were convinced that

Answer 13

Large crowds prepared to act forcefully could successfully resist the stamp act

Question 14

Sons of liberty

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Engaged in political agitation that precipitated crowd action

Question 15

Representatives from colonies met in the

Answer 15

Stamp act to organize resistance

Question 16

Parliament repealed stamp act but passed

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Declaratory act which asserted britains power and authority over the colonies

Question 17

Townsend revenue acts

Answer 17

Levied new taxes on items such as tea paper and glass

Question 18

Group of American women called the daughters of liberty led boycotts of

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English foods and produced products that would help colonists become economically independent

Question 19

Writs of assistance gave parliament officials

Answer 19

Authority to search and seize colonial property

Question 20

British sent troops to

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Maintain order and facilitate tax collection

Question 21

Boston massacre

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Five colonists killed in conflict with British troops in Boston

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Boston massacre convinced Americans that British government

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Was prepared to use military force

Question 23

Tea act reassert re parliaments right to

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Tax colonists and led to Boston tea party after townshend acts were repealed

Question 24

Boston tea party

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Colonists boarded British ships and dumped 45 tons of tea into the Boston harbor

Question 25

British responded to Boston tea party with

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Intolerable acts

Punitive acts that closed Boston harbor to all trade

Question 26

Colonists formed committees of correspondence to

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Publicize colonial opposition and to organize resistance

Question 27

Each colony, except Georgia, sent representatives to a meeting in Philadelphia to decide

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Response to the actions of the British government in 1774 (first continental congress)

Question 28

Benjamin Franklin drafted a

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Resolution for the congress

Question 29

First continental Congress’s voted to

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Impose a ban on trade with Britain

Question 30

Their goal was to force Britain to change its polices but British officials simply considered the nam an

Answer 30

Irresponsible refinance of authority and ordered the arrest of some leading colonists in mass

Question 31

Some colonists were preparing for

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War against Great Britain and formed a civilian militia called the Minutemen

Question 32

Approx 700 British troops tried to march to concord where they heard that

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Minutemen had hidden arms and ammunition but colonists were alerted

Question 33

War

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Broke out

Question 34

Many beloved that independence would be the

Answer 34

Solution to the colonists problems

Question 35

Congress appointed a committee of five to prepare a

Answer 35

Declaration of Independence

Question 36

Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft that announced the final

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Step in the colonists resistance to the British government by rejects the sovereignty of the monarchy

Question 37

Members of the continental congress thought it essential to justify their rebellion against re sovereignty of the government and to

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Identify the principles of legitimate government to win sympathy and support

Question 38

Declaration of Independence is an example of the colonists ideas about

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Government and their complaints of British rule

Question 39

Appeals to natural

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Rights common to all people

Question 40

Asserts that authority resides with

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The people

Question 41

Important ideas and arguments of the declaration

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Natural rights
Human equality
Government by consent
“A long train of abuses”

Question 42

Human equality

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Right to rule must be based on compact among equal civic members

Question 43

A long train of abuses

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Violations and abuses of power by King showed design to reduce government of colonies to tyranny

Question 44

Declaration charged that the king was

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Seeking to destroy authority of colonial legislatures
Obstructing administration of justice
Keeping standing armies without approval
Quartering soldiers
Imposing taxes without consent
Depriving colonists of the right to trial by jury
Altering colonial charterS, abolishing laws, changing constitutions

Question 45

Compact

Answer 45

Agreement