Revolutionary War

Question 1

Writs of Assistance

Answer 1

• Allowed customs officers to enter any location to search for smuggled goods(anyone,anywhere)
• Angered the colonists because it violated their rights as English citizens.
• Because the colonists felt it violated their rights, they occasionally fought back.

Question 2

The Sugar Act

Answer 2

• lowered the tax on imported molasses
• let officers seize goods without going to court
• Angered the colonists because it violated their right as English citizens
• Fought for rights to have jury trials

Question 3

The Stamp Act

Answer 3

• placed a tax on almost all printed material, including newspapers, wills, and playing cards
• A stamp was put on all printed materials to show they payed the tax
• Parliament had interfered in colonial affairs by taxing the colonies directly without their consent.
• Patrick Henry persuaded the burgesses to take action against the Stamp Act
• Samuel Adams started the Sons of Liberty
• Both told the colonists not to use stamps or printed goods

Question 4

The Townshend Acts

Answer 4

• In 1767, Parliament posed a set of laws that came to be known as the Townshend Acts.
• The new taxes would apply only to imported goods, such as glass, tea and paper, with the tax being payed at the port of entry
• British taxes other countries’ goods so that the colonists would buy from Britain
• women formed groups sometimes called Daughters of Liberty
• The British taxes angered the colonists. They believed that only their own representatives had the right to tax them.
• organized another boycott; made own goods

Question 5

The Tea Act

Answer 5

• allowed the company a virtual reality monopoly, or sole control, of the trade for tea in America
• let the company sell tea directly to shopkeepers and bypass colonial merchants who normally distributed the tea
• Allowed British East India Company complete control over trade for tea in America
• Boston Tea Party
• Colonial merchants called for a new boycott
• colonists vowed to stop the East India Company’s ships from unloading
• Daughters of Liberty issued a pamphlet declaring that rather than part with freedom “we’ll part with our tea”

Question 6

The Intolerable(Coercive) Acts

Answer 6

• punished people of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party
• Closed ports until tea was paid off
• Banned town meetings
• quartering of soldiers
• The colonist held that the Coercive Acts violated their rights as English citizens
• When the Quebec Act was passed, the colonists expressed their name for the new laws - The Intolerable Acts
• Intolerable Acts - Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, Quebec Act

Question 7

The Boston Massacre

Answer 7

• March 5, 1770
• Bostonians were rebelling and threw rocks and sticks at British soldiers
• One British soldier falls and another opens fire on the (defenseless) colonists
• 5 colonists died in the event
• called a “massacre” because Samuel Adams put up posters describing the event as a massacre

Question 8

The Boston Tea Party

Answer 8

• December 16, 1773
• Men dressed as Native Americans dumped a ship full of tea into Boston Harbor
• British had to pay for tea

Question 9

First Continental Congress

Answer 9

• Representatives(55 in all) from all colonies except Georgia met in Philadelphia
• Wanted to represent American interests and challenge British control

Question 10

Second Continental Congress

Answer 10

• May 10, 1775; met for the first time
• Same delegates from the First Continental Congress
• New delegates: Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson
• Printed money
• Authorized Post Office
• Communicated with Native Americans and other countries

Question 11

Declaration of Independence Rights

Answer 11

• Life
• Liberty
• the pursuit of Happiness
• the right to abolish or alter government, as well as institute a new government

Question 12

Advantages and Disadvantages of the British

Answer 12

Advantages:

• Best navy in the world
• Well-trained, experienced army
• larger population

Disadvantages:

• Hessians-hired German soldier, worked for money
• Far-away war

Question 13

Advantages and Disadvantages of the Patriots

Answer 13

Advantages:

• Fighting on own land
• Determination
• George Washington

Disadvantages:

• Lacked an army AND a navy
• Lack of supplies
• Not all citizens supported independence

Question 14

Terms of the Treaty of Paris

Answer 14

• Great Britain recognized the United States as an independent nation
• British took troops out of U.S.
• US could fish in Canada
• British merchants could collect debts that the Americans owed them
• Colonists would return Loyalists’ properties to them

Question 15

Revolutionary War Events in Order

Answer 15

Lexington and Concord
Fort Ticonderoga
Battle of Bunker Hill( Breeds Hill)
Olive Branch Petition
The Battle of Saratoga
Valley Forge
France and Spain join the war 
Vincennes 
Battle of Yorktown
Treaty of Paris