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Question 1

Enlightenment

Answer 1

A moment that spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society

Question 2

Self Government

Answer 2

A self-governing country has elected officials that make most decisions without referring to the home country

Question 3

Salutary Neglect

Answer 3

An unofficial policy of not enforcing trade laws on the 13 colonies

Question 4

John Locke

Answer 4

English philosopher whose belief in natural rights was used as an argument colonial independence

Question 5

Mayflower Compact

Answer 5

A document signed by the Pilgrims that organized a government to maintain the “general good” of the colony

Question 6

Pilgrims

Answer 6

People who separated from the English Church and took the religious journey to the 13 colonies

Question 7

Democracy

Answer 7

A form of government where the power rests with the people either directly or through elected officials

Question 8

New England Town Meetings

Answer 8

Landowners held the right to vote and pass laws as they discussed local issues

Question 9

Mercantilism

Answer 9

Economic policy where a nation increases its wealth by gaining natural resources and increasing exports

Question 10

Navigation Acts

Answer 10

Laws that forced the colonists to sell their raw materials to England even if they could get a better price elsewhere

Question 11

French and Indian War

Answer 11

A conflict between France and Britain over who owned the Ohio River Valley

Question 12

Albany Plan of Union

Answer 12

Benjamin Franklin’s plan to set up a united government for ALL of the colonies but it was denied

Question 13

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 13

Order by King George/Parliament that prohibited colonists from moving West of the Appalachian Mountains (Native American land)

Question 14

Quartering Act

Answer 14

Law passed by the British Parliament that required the colonists to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonists

Question 15

Sugar Act

Answer 15

Tax on molasses and allowed the British to seize goods from smugglers without trial

Question 16

Duties

Answer 16

Type of tax put on imported goods

Question 17

Stamp Act

Answer 17

A tax on ALL paper goods, you received a stamp on the goods if you paid the tax.

Question 18

Stamp Act Congress

Answer 18

A meeting where the colonies sent a letter to Parliament and the King stating that only colonial governments could tax colonists

Question 19

Declaratory Act

Answer 19

Law passed by British parliament and King that stated they had the right to tax and make decisions for the colonies

Question 20

Townshend Acts

Answer 20

A general tax on imported goods like glass, tea, and paper

Question 21

Boston Massacre

Answer 21

Conflict between colonists and British redcoats in Boston that resulted in the death of 5 colonists

Question 22

Propaganda

Answer 22

Information spread to harm or help a cause by influencing public opinion

Question 23

Paul Revere

Answer 23

Created an engraving that showed a British officer giving the order to open fire on the crowd

Question 24

Boston Tea Party

Answer 24

The Sons of Liberty (colonists) disguised themselves as Native Americans and dumped British tea overboard

Question 25

Tea Act

Answer 25

Gave the British East India Company total control of the colonial tea market

Question 26

Tarring and Feathery

Answer 26

Colonists would capture and dump tar feathers on British tax collectors

Question 27

Intolerable Acts

Answer 27

Laws enforced to punish the colonists after the Boston Tea Party

Question 28

Loyalist

Answer 28

Colonists who opposed independence from Britain

Question 29

Patriot

Answer 29

Colonists who supported independence from Britain