Unit 3

Question 1

What is the name of the incident in Boston where colonists dressed like Indians, boarded ships and threw cargoes of tea into the bay?

Answer 1

Boston Tea Party

Question 2

What Act states that British Parliament could pass laws FOR the colonies - which included tax laws?

Answer 2

Declaratory Act

Question 3

What is the name of the incident where British soldiers fired into an angry Boston crowd and killed a number of American colonists?

Answer 3

Boston Massacre

Question 4

What is the name of the Act that placed a tax on ALL paper products?

Answer 4

Stamp Act

Question 5

What is the name of the Acts which were meant to punish the people of Massachusetts because of the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 5

Coercive Acts

Question 6

What is the name of the Act that forbids the colonists from issuing paper money and forcing them to pay taxes in gold or silver?

Answer 6

Currency Act

Question 7

What is the name of the Act which gave the British East India Company a monopoly on selling tea in America?

Answer 7

Tea Act

Question 8

What is the name of the Act that prohibited settlement east of the Appalachian Mountains?

Answer 8

Proclamation of 1763

Question 9

What is another name for a search warrant used during colonial times?

Answer 9

Writs of Assistance

Question 10

What is the name of the Indian chief who raided settlements in the Great Lakes Valley because American settlers were moving onto Indian lands in great numbers?

Answer 10

Pontiac

Question 11

Who was a fugitive slave that was killed during the Boston Massacre?

Answer 11

Crispus Attucks

Question 12

What is the name of an Act which placed an indirect tax on items like tea, glass, lead and colors for paints: all of which are American imports?

Answer 12

Townshend Acts

Question 13

What is the name of the underground organization of Boston citizens that staged riots and destroyed offices of royal officials?

Answer 13

Non-importation Agreements

Question 14

What is the name of the Act which required the colonial legislature to provide housing supplies or British troops stationed in America?

Answer 14

Quartering Act

Question 15

What Act placed a tax on molasses and sugar?

Answer 15

Sugar Act

Question 16

What is the term for goods, like tobacco that could ONLY be sent to England?

Answer 16

Enumerated Goods

Question 17

What is the term for an economical and political theory where by a nation tries to gain greater wealth and power than its rivals?

Answer 17

Mercantilism

Question 18

What is the name of their major source of colonial trade which involved the colonies, Africa and the West Indies?

Answer 18

Triangle Trade

Question 19

What is the slogan that was popular in the colonies that showed their displeasure with the taxes begin passed on to them and the lack of legislative consent for the taxes?

Answer 19

No taxation without representation

Question 20

What is the name of the colonial organization whose main function was to inform the other colonies what was happening in Massachusetts?

Answer 20

Committees of Correspondence

Question 21

What are two problems facing Britain after the French and Indian War?

Answer 21

1 - War debt

2 - cost of defending new territories

Question 22

What is the name of an organization of delegates from 12 colonies, that demanded their rights as Englishmen, a change in British policies and would meet again if the laws that punished Massachusetts were not repealed?

Answer 22

1st Continental Congress

Question 23

What is the term for an organization of delegates from 9 of the 13 colonies who gathered in response to the Stamp Act and vowed not to pay any taxes without the consent of their colonial legislature?

Answer 23

Stamp Act Congress

Question 24

What Commander of the British Tripp’s in America and was also named the governor of Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party?

Answer 24

General Thomas Gage