Social Studies

Question 1

What is the parliament?

Answer 1

England’s bicameral (two-house) legislature (lawmaking body)
made up of the House of Lords and the House of Commons; the Prime Minister
is in charge of Parliament

Question 2

What is Great Britain?

Answer 2

an island made up of the countries of England, Wales, and Scotland

Question 3

What is the United Kingdom?

Answer 3

Great Britain and Ireland (at this time)

Question 4

Mercantilism

Answer 4

A system of creating and maintaining wealth through carefully controlled trade. England controlled the colonies for wealth

Question 5

What are Imports?

Answer 5

goods brought into a country; a country gains wealth if it has more exports than imports

Question 6

What are exports?

Answer 6

Goods sold to other countries; a country gains wealth if it has more exports than imports

Question 7

What are Duties?

Answer 7

Taxes added to imported items

Question 8

What is smuggling?

Answer 8

illegal trading of goods

Question 9

What was the Navigation Act of 1660?

Answer 9

Parliament passed a series of acts that forbade colonists from trading specific items such as sugar and cotton with any country other than England; colonists also were forced to use England ships.

Question 10

What was the Molasses Act of 1733?

Answer 10

Parliament passed an act which placed duties of sugar, molasses, and rum; British officials rarely carried out this law.

Question 11

What are free Enterprises?

Answer 11

businesses conducted with little or no interference from the government

Question 12

What are raw materials?

Answer 12

unfinished or unprocessed goods ( leather, wood)

Question 13

What are manufactured good?

Answer 13

finished or processed products (clothes, furniture)

Question 14

What was triangular trade?

Answer 14

raw materials and manufactured goods were traded between the colonies, West Indies, Europe, and Africa; Slaves were traded as well from Africa across the Atlantic ( Middle Passage) because they were considered property/ chattel.

Question 15

What is a boycott?

Answer 15

to refuse to buy a good or service; a nonviolent form of protest

Question 16

What is a repeal?

Answer 16

to cancel or to take back

Question 17

What is a militia?

Answer 17

civilians (non-military people) serving as soldiers

Question 18

What is a propaganda?

Answer 18

a story/art which gives only one side of an argument or issue

Question 19

What is a massacre?

Answer 19

a slaughter/killing of people or animals

Question 20

What is a retreat?

Answer 20

to turn away from the fighting in a battle; whoever is still on the field is the winner/victor/ and can claim victory

Question 21

What is quartering?

Answer 21

housing or lodging for the soldiers/military

Question 22

What is coercive?

Answer 22

forceful

Question 23

What is intolerable?

Answer 23

unbearable

Question 24

What is a smuggle?

Answer 24

bring goods into a country illegally

Question 25

What are duties/tariffs?

Answer 25

taxes on imported or exported goodsWH

Question 26

What is the Parliament?

Answer 26

England’s lawmaking legislature; headed by the Prime Minister

Question 27

What were the Writs of Assistance?

Answer 27

Search warrants that allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods

Question 28

What was the Salutary Neglect?

Answer 28

not enforcing most laws governing the colonies

Question 29

What is Rights versus (vs.) Liberty?

Answer 29

Rights are rules of the way people are governed or what is allowed; liberty is freedom.

Question 30

What was the Sugar Act?

Answer 30

a time when colonists were taxed on sugar and molasses to raise money for England

Question 31

What was the Stamp Act of 1765?

Answer 31

a time when colonists were taxed on all paper items which required stamps

Question 32

What did Patrick Henry do?

Answer 32

argued against the Stamp Act – later said “Give me liberty or give me death.”

Question 33

What was the Stamp Act Congress?

Answer 33

9 of 13 colonies met in New York and declared that the act violated their rights! The colonies united now

Question 34

What were the Declaratory Act?

Answer 34

they stated that Parliament had the right to make all laws whatsoever

Question 35

What were the Townshend Acts?

Answer 35

Townshend Acts placed duties/taxes/tariffs on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea

Question 36

When did the Boston Massacre occur?

Answer 36

March 5, 1770

Question 37

What was the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 37

340 chests of British tea were overthrown by colonists (Sons of Liberty) disguised as Indians; estimated damage in today’s money is $1,700,000.

Question 38

What were the coercive acts also known as?

Answer 38

Intolerable Acts