SS Test

Question 1

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 1

prevent conflicts between the colonists and Native Americans created a border along the Appalachian Mountains

Question 2

Stamp Act - 1765

Answer 2

tax on legal documents, newspapers, almanacs, playing cards, etc. protests and boycotts NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

Question 3

Townshend Acts - 1767

Answer 3

tax on glass, paper, lead, and tea

Question 4

Sons of Liberty / Daughters of Liberty

Answer 4

these groups were set up by men and women in response to the new taxes.
groups organized protests and boycotts

Question 5

Committee of Correspondence

Answer 5

initially set up by Sam Adams as a way of keeping the other colonies informed about events in Boston

Question 6

Quartering Act

Answer 6

law passed that required colonists to provide housing, (candles, bedding, food and beverages) to soldiers stationed in the colonies

Question 7

Boston Massacre - March 5, 1770

Answer 7

conflict between an angry mob of Bostonians and a group of soldiers, Sam Adams and Paul Revere called it the “Boston Massacre, John Adams defended the soldiers and proved in court that the soldiers fired in self-defense. The soldiers were found not guilty of murder.

Question 8

Tea Act of 1773

Answer 8

allowed the East India Tea Company to sell tea directly to colonists, actually lowering the cost of tea for the consumer.
colonists still boycotted tea because they did not want to pay the tax on it.

Question 9

Boston Tea Party - December 16, 1773

Answer 9

organized protest against the Tea Act, boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped several hundred chests of tea into the water.

Question 10

Intolerable Acts

Answer 10

laws passed by Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party
1. Closed the port of Boston. No ship could enter or leave.
2. Town meetings could not be held more than once a year and they had to be approved by the royal governor.
3. British officials charged with major crimes had to be tried in British courts rather than in Massachusetts.
4. A new Quartering Act was passed.

Question 11

First Continental Congress - September, 1774

Answer 11

delegates from all of the colonies except Georgia met in Philadelphia, The Congress passed a resolution supporting Massachusetts; agreed to continue boycotting British goods; and urged each colony to set up a militia.

Question 12

Battle of Lexington and Concord - April 18, 1775

Answer 12

General Thomas Gage led 700 British troops to seize a stockpile of weapons at Concord. Midnight riders warned the colonist the british were coming. British troops first encountered 70 minutemen at the green in Lexington. British troops pushed on to Concord where they encountered a group of about 300 minutemen. The colonists turned the British back and chased them back to Boston. In the end, there were 73 British dead, and 200 wounded or missing. The battle is credited as the first of the American Revolution.