Unit 3 vocab quiz

Question 1

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 1

He was a founding father and scientist. During the French and Indian War, he attempted to unite the colonies and Native Americans against the French. He also was involved in the writing of the Declaration of Independence.

Question 2

The Boston Massacre

Answer 2

This event occurred when several British soldiers shot into a crowd of protestors after being harassed. Five protestors were killed, and the soldiers were forced to stand trial.

Question 3

The Boston Tea Party

Answer 3

A protest against the Tea Act of 1773 performed by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. The men boarded three ships filled with tea, broke the containers, and poured the tea overboard.

Question 4

Boycott

Answer 4

The refusal to buy a good as part of a protest.

Question 5

Common Sense

Answer 5

This was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that encouraged the thirteen colonies to seek independence from Great Britain.

Question 6

Crispus Attucks

Answer 6

Attucks was the first person to be killed at the Boston Massacre. Attucks was most likely of Native American and African heritage.

Question 7

Daughters of Liberty

Answer 7

This was a women led organization that formed to protest the Stamp Act and later British rule. They were known for spinning bees and their boycott of tea.

Question 8

Effig

Answer 8

This is a straw model of a person. Usually these were created with the idea that they would be burned or destroyed as a protest.

Question 9

First Continental Congress

Answer 9

The first gathering of representatives of the thirteen colonies. They met after the passage of the Intolerable Act. They agreed to continue boycotting British goods until the Intolerable Acts were repealed.

Question 10

The French and Indian War

Answer 10

Pitting the French against the British, this war was fought in the American colonies for control of the Ohio River Valley. Each side had support from different Native American tribes.

Question 11

Intolerable Acts

Answer 11

These laws were passed to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party. The acts closed the port of Boston, restored British control of the colonial government, and denied the colonies their own trials.

Question 12

John Adams

Answer 12

He was a founding father and second President of the United States. After the “Boston Massacre,” he helped to defend the British soldiers at trial.

Question 13

King George III

Answer 13

He was the king of the United Kingdom during the American Revolution.

Question 14

Loyalist

Answer 14

These were colonists who were in favor of British rule in the colonies.

Question 15

Militia

Answer 15

Considered “citizen soldiers,” all able-bodied men were members of the militia during the colonial era.

Question 16

Minutemen

Answer 16

Men who volunteered to serve as a militia member “At a minute’s notice.”

Question 17

“No Taxation without Representation”

Answer 17

This slogan was developed in the colonies in protest to the taxes imposed by the British government. The colonists were asking for representation in Parliament in return for paying taxes.

Question 18

Parliament

Answer 18

This is the system of representative government used in Great Britain.

Question 19

Patrick Henry

Answer 19

A founding father best known as the former governor of Virginia. He is known for saying “Give me liberty or give me death!

Question 20

Patriot

Answer 20

These were colonists who supported American independence.

Question 21

Phillis Wheatley

Answer 21

She was the first published African American female poet. She wrote poetry while in slavery and after she was freed. Her poems were in favor of American Independence.

Question 22

The Proclamation Line of 1763

Answer 22

This forbade colonial settlements past the Appalachian Mountains. It was created after the French and Indian War.

Question 23

Pontiac’s War

Answer 23

A Native American rebellion caused by the British policies put in place after the French and Indian War. A leader of the Odawa, Pontiac was angered by the movement of English colonists on to Native American land after the French and Indian War.

Question 24

The Quartering Act

Answer 24

An act passed that required colonists to provide housing and food for British Soldiers

Question 25

Redcoats

Answer 25

British soldiers in the American colonies named for their distinctive red jackets.

Question 26

Repeal

Answer 26

This means to cancel an act of law officially.

Question 27

Sons of Liberty

Answer 27

These were a group of protesters in the colonial era who protested against British policies. Created by Samuel Adams, they created the motto “No taxation without representation.”

Question 28

The Stamp Act

Answer 28

This act created a tax on many printed goods including newspapers and playing cards.

Question 29

The Sugar Act

Answer 29

This act placed taxes on sugar and molasses and increased the enforcement of these taxes.

Question 30

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 30

A founding father, slaveholder, and writer of the Declaration of Independence. He later served as the third president of the United States.

Question 31

Townshend Acts

Answer 31

These acts taxed glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea, When the Townshend Acts were repealed, the Tea Act was kept.

Question 32

Tyranny

Answer 32

This term refers to cruel and unfair rule by government or a leader.