The Roots of the Revolutionary War

Question 1

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 1

Prevented settlement beyond the Appalachians to stem Indian-Colonist fighting, disregarded by Americans.

Question 2

Republicanism

Answer 2

An idea in the minds of Americans on the dawn of Revolution, it is a just society in which all citizens willingly subordinated their private, selfish interests to the common good. Both the stability of society and the authority of government thus depended on the virtue of the citizenry-its capacity for selflessness, self-sufficiency, and courage.

Question 3

Radical Whigs (1750s)

Answer 3

A group of British political commentators, made attacks on the use of patronage and bribes by the king’s ministers. They warned citizens to be on guard for possible corruption.

Question 4

Navigation Law of 1650

Answer 4

Stated that all goods flowing to and from the colonies could only be transported in British vessels. It was aimed to hurt rival Dutch shippers.

Question 5

George Grenville

Answer 5

Prime Minister of England who imposed several taxes against the colonists to help pay off the debt of the French-Indian War, ordered stricter enforcement of the Navigation Laws.

Question 6

Sugar Act of 1764

Answer 6

Increased the duty on foreign sugar imported from the West Indies.

Question 7

Quartering Act of 1765

Answer 7

Required certain colonies to provide food and quarters for British troops.

Question 8

Stamp Act

Answer 8

Mandated the use of stamped paper or the affixing of stamps, certifying payment of tax. Following the success of nonimportation agreements, it was repealed in 1766.

Question 9

Stamp Act Congress of 1765

Answer 9

The members drew up a statement of their rights and grievances and requested the king and Parliament to repeal the hated legislation. The meeting’s ripples began to erode sectional suspicions (suspicions between the colonies), for it had brought together around the same table leaders from the different and rival colonies. It was one step towards intercolonial unity.

Question 10

Nonimportation agreements

Answer 10

Agreements made to not import British goods, they were a stride toward unionism

Question 11

The Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty

Answer 11

Took the law into their own hands and violently enforced nonimportation agreements against the British.

Question 12

Declaratory Act

Answer 12

Passed by Parliament after they repealed the Stamp Act, it reaffirmed their right to bind the colonies in all cases whatsoever.

Question 13

Townshend Acts

Answer 13

Put a light import tax on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea; it lead to violent outbursts.

Question 14

Boston Massacre

Answer 14

1770- 11 civilians who were part of a mob killed/wounded by British soldiers; depicted as a brutal slaughter in colonial newspapers.

Question 15

Lord North

Answer 15

Prime Minister of Great Britain who persuaded Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts.

Question 16

Samuel Adams

Answer 16

Master propagandist and engineer of rebellion; formed the Sons of Liberty.

Question 17

Thomas Hutchinson

Answer 17

The unpopular Massachusetts governor who forced the people of Massachusetts to let the British East India Company unload their excess tea.

Question 18

Boston Tea Party

Answer 18

1773- An event in which a band of Bostonians, disguised as Indians, boarded British East India ships and dumped the tea into the harbor.

Question 19

Intolerable Acts

Answer 19

Passed as a result of the Boston Tea Party, they made restrictions on town meetings, and stated that soldiers who killed colonists in the line of duty would be sent to Britain for trial.

Question 20

Boston Port Act

Answer 20

One of the Intolerable Acts, it shut off the Boston harbor for trade until damages could be paid back. Lead to intercolonial support for Massachusetts.

Question 21

Quebec Act

Answer 21

This gave Catholic French Canadians religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law, it upset many colonists.

Question 22

1st Continental Congress

Answer 22

Convened after the Intolerable Acts were passed.

Question 23

A Declaration of Rights

Answer 23

A paper drafted by the 1st Continental Congress to the British dominion asking them to repeal the Intolerable Acts.

Question 24

The Association

Answer 24

A paper crafted by the 1st Continental Congress which called for a complete boycott of British goods.

Question 25

Lexington Massacre

Answer 25

(1775) British commander in Boston sent a detachment of troops They were to seize provisions of colonial gunpowder and to capture the “rebel” ringleaders, Samuel Adams and John Hancock. 8 Americans were shot and killed. Revolutionary War begins.

Question 26

Lord Dunmore

Answer 26

Royal governor of Virginia, he promised freedom to any slave who fought for Britain.