Unit 4 - All Vocab

Question 1

Samuel Adams

Answer 1

American revolutionary who led the agitation that led to the Boston Tea Party; he signed the Declaration of Independence.

Question 2

Committees of Correspondence

Answer 2

committees created by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the 1760s to help towns and colonies share information about resisting British laws

Question 3

Stamp Act of 1765

Answer 3

a law passed by Parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items such as newspapers, licenses, and legal documents

Question 4

Mercy Otis Warren

Answer 4

a writer from Massachusetts who opposed the Stamp Act and wrote anti-British plays.

Question 5

Boston Massacre

Answer 5

an incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people (1770)

Question 6

Tea Act

Answer 6

a law passed by Parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party (1773)

Question 7

Boston Tea Party

Answer 7

a protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped more than 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor (December 1773)

Question 8

Intolerable Acts

Answer 8

laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten government control of the colonies (1774)

Question 9

Quartering Act

Answer 9

One of the Coercive or Intolerable Acts that helped fan the flames of revolution in the English colonies. It required each colonist to provide a place in their home, or quarter, for British soldiers.