Unit 2

Question 1

What was the Sugar Act

Answer 1

An acted created by parliament that set taxes on sugar and molasses

Question 2

Why did parliament pass to sugar act

Answer 2

To raise money in colonies because of debt from war

Question 3

What were the colonists reactions to the sugar act

Answer 3

Upset because the British had taxed them without their consent

Question 4

Who founded the Committees of Correspondence

Answer 4

Samuel Adams

Question 5

What did Samuel Adams believe

Answer 5

The British could not tax the colonies without their consent

Question 6

What did the Committees of Correspondence do?

Answer 6

They got in touch with other towns and colonies to share ideas about ways to challenge British laws

Question 7

Where did the first colonial Boycott start?

Answer 7

New York

Question 8

What is a boycott?

Answer 8

When people refused to buy British goods

Question 9

What year was the stamp act passed?

Answer 9

1765

Question 10

What did the stamp act require colonists to do?

Answer 10

required colonists to pay for an official stamp/seal when buying paper items (legal documents, licenses, newspapers, playing cards)

Question 11

What was the colonial reaction to the stamp act

Answer 11

They were upset and formed the sons of liberty

Question 12

What does correspondence mean

Answer 12

Communication through letters

Question 13

What was the declaratory act?

Answer 13

parliament said they had the power to create laws for the colonies

Question 14

What was the Townshend act?

Answer 14

Places duties on grass, lead, paper, paint, and tea

Question 15

What were the writs of assistance

Answer 15

Allowed unlimited search warrants for redcoats to look for smuggles goods

Question 16

When did the Boston Massacre occur

Answer 16

March 5th, 1770

Question 17

What was the attitude of Bostonians towards Redcoats

Answer 17

Saw them as a threat from the British empire

Question 18

What were the crispus attacks

Answer 18

First to die in the Boston Massacre, was an African American sailor

Question 19

What is Propaganda

Answer 19

A story giving one side of the argument

Question 20

Who created the ‘Bloody Massacre”

Answer 20

Paul Revere

Question 21

Who did John Adams represent as a result of the Boston Massacre

Answer 21

Defended the Redcoats

Question 22

What was the verdict of the Boston Massacre trial

Answer 22

Jury found soldiers not guilty and they were released (fired from self-defense)

Question 23

What was the purpose of the Tea Act

Answer 23

To calm down colonists

Question 24

What was the Tea Act

Answer 24

given monopoly on tea making the British east India company the only one colonists could buy tea from

Question 25

What was the Boston Tea Party

Answer 25

The members of the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Natives and dumped 340 tea chests into the Boston Harbor

Question 26

What was created due to the Boston Tea Party

Answer 26

The intolerable acts (coercive acts)

Question 27

What does coerce mean

Answer 27

To force, intimidate, bully

Question 28

what did the coercive acts state

Answer 28

1. Boston Harbor was closed until Boston paid for the tea 2. Massachusetts Charter was dismissed (committees of correspondence banned) and governor decided Legislature meetings 3. Royal Officers accused of crimes were sent to Britain for trial 4. Quartering Act - required citizens to house soldiers 5. Quebec Act - gave land to colony of Quebec 6. Thomas Gage was the new governor

Question 29

What did the Coercive acts end up doing to the colonists

Answer 29

Ended up uniting them

Question 30

What does civil disobedience mean

Answer 30

breaking a law as a means of non-violent protest

Question 31

What does Intolerable mean

Answer 31

Unbearable, unendurable

Question 32

What did the First Continental congress decide

Answer 32

1. To ban all trade with British until intolerable acts were repealed 2. Begin training colonial militias 3. Send declaration of rights to king

Question 33

What did the declaration of rights say

Answer 33

Said colonists had rights to life, liberty, and property

Question 34

Definition of act

Answer 34

law

Question 35

Definition of boycott

Answer 35

when people refuse to buy goods as a means of protest

Question 36

Definition of Committee

Answer 36

A group created for a specific purpose

Question 37

Definition of Correspondence

Answer 37

communication through letters

Question 38

Definition of Propaganda

Answer 38

An exaggerated version of the truth showing one side of the argument to persuade an audience

Question 39

Definition of Civil Disobedience

Answer 39

Breaking a law as a means of non-violent protests

Question 40

What were the major events of Lexington

Answer 40

British troops arrived at town of Lexington looking to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock. Shot heard round the world, no one knows who fired first 8 minutemen died but Samuel Adams and John Hancock escaped

Question 41

Major events of concord