The American Revolution Study Guide

Question 1

What was the major difference between the colony of Rhode Island and the colony of Massachusetts

Answer 1

Road Island had complete religious freedom but Massachusetts didn’t have it completely

Question 2

What were the cash crops that supported the southern colonies

Answer 2

Tobacco rice and indigo

Question 3

What factors caused the decline in population of Jamestown colony between 1609 and the spring of 1610

Answer 3

The starving times and there was also a drought

Question 4

Great awakening

Answer 4

A religious movement that became widespread in the American colonies in 1730s and 1740s

Question 5

What affected the great awakening have on the political life of the colonies

Answer 5

Sermans Led some colonist to begin demanding more political equal. It also change the colonial religion. Connor started to question authority because they were taught that everyone is equal

Question 6

How did the ideas developed during the Enlightenment and the great awakening influence the colonist view of government

Answer 6

Protect their natural rights

Question 7

Why did the British prohibit calling us from moving west of the appalachian mountains

Answer 7

They wanted to keep them safe from the French and Indian war

Question 8

What items were taxed under the stamp act

Answer 8

Newspapers pamphlets and marriage license

Question 9

Why did colonists oppose the stamp act

Answer 9

They felt their freedom had been threatened in the resented being taxed without the Consent

Question 10

How did the colonist show their opposition to the stamp act

Answer 10

Went into a complete boycott

Question 11

What items were taxed in the Townsend acts

Answer 11

Glass lead paper paint and tea

Question 12

Which European nations had colonies in North America in the 1600s?

Answer 12

Franks Neverland England and Spain

Question 13

What does the phrase taxation without representation mean and why did it become a rallying cry for revolution

Answer 13

To be taxed without knowing

Question 14

What event or events cause the Boston massacre

Answer 14

The quartering act

Question 15

What was the Boston tea party and what were colonist protesting

Answer 15

The Boston tea party was at Parliament passed the tea act which gave to British Indies company of complete monopoly of the American T business meaning only can buy from that company that colonist were protesting the tea act, the sons of liberty organized the Boston tea party

Question 16

Why was the Boston tea party a significant event leading up to independence and revolution

Answer 16

Shows that they can work together to do something they want to accomplish

Question 17

How was Massachusetts Connie punished for the Boston tea party

Answer 17

Intolerable acts

Question 18

Where did British troops expect to find a colonial weapons storehouse when they marched from Boston on the night of April 18, 1775

Answer 18

seized store

Question 19

What British action led the colonist inform the first Continental Congress in 1774

Answer 19

The coercive of acts

Question 20

What actions did the First Continental Congress take

Answer 20

The conus Poseidon their own individual differences and 12 to 13 Colonial representatives met informed a First Continental Congress

Question 21

What issue you did the second Continental Congress discuss

Answer 21

Act as a national government establishing the Continental Army, giving a commission to general Washington

Question 22

What is the unalienable acts?

Answer 22

Refers to that which cannot be given or taken away

Question 23

Which philosopher had the greatest influence on Thomas Jefferson and his drafting of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 23

John Locke

Question 24

What ideas does the Declaration of Independence present as self evident

Answer 24

All men are created equally

Question 25

According to the declaration of independence, what is the purpose of government

Answer 25

To secure natural rights for the people

Question 26

What rights when does the Declaration of Independence they all people have

Answer 26

Freedom and independence from England

Question 27

What were people who taught the American colonies should remain loyal to England called

Answer 27

Loyalist