The Revolutionary Era 1

Question 1

The Seven Year’s War (French and Indian War) led the British to do what to the colonist?

Answer 1

Unnecessarily tax them

Question 2

Treaty of Paris 1763

Answer 2

ended the Seven Year’s War, leaving the British as the European power

Question 3

Two factors contributing to the failure of the British and their relationship with the colonists

Answer 3

1. French and Indian War
2. different visions of empire divided British officials

Question 4

1763 Proclamation Act

Answer 4

British saying colonists could not settle past the Appalachian Mountains

Question 5

Sugar Act

Answer 5

enforced laws to prevent smuggling. If you were caught smuggling, you would be tried in British courts rather than colonial courts

Question 6

Currency Act

Answer 6

restricted colonies from producing paper money

Question 7

Stamp Act

Answer 7

(effected everyone) anything printed by the Colonists would be taxed

Question 8

Quartering Act

Answer 8

allowed British soldiers to live in colonial houses for free

Question 9

what did the upper, middle, and lower class do as a result of the stamp act?

Answer 9

upper: challenge legislative
middle: boycott British goods
lower: riot, attack tax collectors

Question 10

Committees of Correspondence

Answer 10

a group formed to keep others informed of resistance efforts

Question 11

The Stamp Act was repealed. What was a result of this?

Answer 11

Parliament passing the Declaratory Act

Question 12

Declaratory Act

Answer 12

passed after Stamp Act. Parliament had final say on what went on in the 13 colonies.

Question 13

Sons of Liberty

Answer 13

lower classes, founded by Samuel Adams, protest group against the British taxations

Question 14

Townshend Acts

Answer 14

(not directly) tax on tea, glass, and paper. Private homes could be searched for smuggled goods.

Question 15

John Dickinson writes in “Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvanisa”

Answer 15

No taxation without representation.
-do not tax us unless we have a say in British government.

Question 16

What is a result of the Townshend Acts being repealed?

Answer 16

Colonists boycott English goods

Question 17

Boston Massacre

Answer 17

British troops fired on colonial people provoking the soldiers, 5 dead

Question 18

Regulating Act

Answer 18

effectively put territory of India under British government control

Question 19

Tea Act

Answer 19

allows the territory of India to sell tea in the colonies directly and without the territory having to pay the usual export tax in London.

Question 20

Boston Tea Party

Answer 20

boycotting of tea continues, led by Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty

Question 21

Intolerable Acts

Answer 21

-Coercive Acts
-Quebec Acts

Question 22

Coercive Acts

Answer 22

-Boston Port was shut down
-reduced the power of the Massachusetts legislature, while strengthening the power of the British

Question 23

Quebec Acts

Answer 23

-organized Canada by the British

Question 24

Ideas of “European Nerds”

Answer 24

“most of humanity’s problems could be solved through human reason, not monarchy”

Question 25

What did the Ideas of the “European Nerds” do to the Founding Fathers

Answer 25

it influenced them to run their new country

Question 26

First Continental Congress

Answer 26

-Committees of Correspondence decided to send representatives to Philly
-debated how they could protest the British government

Question 27

Declaration of Rights

Answer 27

from the First Continental Congress to King George, stating what the colonists wished and what would happen if they did not get what they wished (in regards to taxes and government)

Question 28

What was outlined in the Declaration of Rights?

Answer 28

-repeal of Intolerable Acts, if it did not happen military action
-wanted the King to restore former colonial rights
-Continental Association to enforce economic boycott
-if colonial rights were not recognized, another Continental Congress meeting

Question 29

Continental Associate

Answer 29

declared the present unhappy situation of the colony because of the British

Question 30

Pontiac’s Rebellion

Answer 30

war in the Great Lakes region led by the
Chief Pontiac, led to further need for British troops
in the region

Question 31

Letters From a Farmer in
Pennsylvania

Answer 31

written by John Dickinson “no taxation without representations”

Question 32

Enlightenment

Answer 32

English movement that believed that most of humanity’s problems could be solved through human reason

Question 33

John Locke

Answer 33

-wrote “Two Treatises of Government”
-argues that the State’s power lies with the
people of the state, not the state itself
-revolt is ok if the state does not protect its citizens rights