Q1 Final

Question 1

What event made the sons of Liberty

Answer 1

The stamp act

Question 2

What is the proclamation of 1763?

Answer 2

Forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains

Made colonists mad, so they defied it

Question 3

Sugar act

Answer 3

Tax on sugar, molasses and other similar products

Question 4

Currency act

Answer 4

Said that you can’t coin (make) your own money

•It Angered the colonists and the colonists said that the Brits were limiting their freedom

Question 5

Stamp act

Answer 5

Required everything made of paper that had print on it to be taxed.
• said that parliament didn’t have the right to make up taxes and that no tax should be made without the colonists vote
*when they finally started fighting back

Question 6

Townshend acts

Answer 6

Import tax on glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea.

* made the writ of assistance-search warrants to enter homes and businesses to search for smuggled or legal goods

Question 7

What was the result of the Townshend act?

Answer 7

Made the colonist mad because invaded their privacy. Caused protests, and boycotts of English goods. Daughters of liberty came up with practical ways to boycott goods

Question 8

Boston massacre

Answer 8

British soldiers came to Boston to calm the people but it just made them more upset. Dockworkers were upset because they lost their jobs because of the British (The people were boycotting imports). They became violent causing the soldiers to shoot into the crowd killing five people.

Question 9

Tea act/Boston tea party

Answer 9

Colonists were mad about the tea act so they took a recent import of tea (British Eaat Indies) and dumped it into the water. This caused Britain to repeal the tea act

Question 10

Intolerable acts/Coercive acts

Answer 10

term for a series of laws that angered the colonists passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish Massachusetts • Close all the ports until the tea was paid for • Banned town meetings

Question 11

What happened at Lexington?

Answer 11

Lexington was the first shots fired, broke out into battle killing 8 colonists (700 brits vs 70 colonists) and the brits moved onto Concord

Question 12

What happened at Concord?

Answer 12

Happened after the battle at Lexington, colonists were victorious and the British retreated to Boston (400 C vs 700 B)

Question 13

Common sense

Answer 13

A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. He was a political radical and convinced many to support the patriots his pamphlet.

Question 14

Declaration of Independence

Answer 14

Listed why the colonists were breaking away from Britain, along with their attempts to make peace. It declared that the colonists were breaking away from Britain

Question 15

Olive branch

Answer 15

Last attempt of the colonists to make peace with Britain

Question 16

The second Continental Congress meet?

Answer 16

Philadelphia

Question 17

What was the result of the battles at Concord and Lexington?

Answer 17

Siege of Boston, Fort Ticonderoga, Second Continental Congress, The battle of Bunker Hill which the British won

Question 18

Who won the battle of Bunker Hill?

Answer 18

Britain, the British forced the colonist off the hill

Question 19

Causes of the F&I war

Answer 19

• French had claimed a lot of land
• Fur trade
• Religion
• Competition

Question 20

Outcome of F&I war

Answer 20

The Treaty of Paris was signed and it ended all French control and expanded Britain’s control

Question 21

What were two decisions made by the First Continental Congress?

Answer 21

1-And attack on one colony was an attack on all

2- Thomas Jefferson was to write the Declaration of Independence

Question 22

Where did the colonists store their ammo?

Answer 22

Concord

Question 23

When was the declaration of independence written, what is the structure of the document, who wrote it, treason?

Answer 23

Written on July 4, 1776. It was written by Thomas Jefferson. The document was written: preamble, rights of the people, tyrannical acts (what The king did), efforts to make peace, then the declaration