War

Question 1

Writs of Assistance

Answer 1

A search warrant that allowed British officers to enter colonial homes or buisnesses to search for smuggler goods

Question 2

Parliment

Answer 2

Englands chief lawmaking body

Question 3

Repeal

Answer 3

To end an act or to take it away

Question 4

Laws That Were Repealed

Answer 4

Stamp Act, Sugar Act, and Townshend Acts

Question 5

Boycott

Answer 5

A refusal to buy certain goods

Question 6

Example of a Boycott

Answer 6

Daughters of liberty refused to buy herbal tea etc. which was a form of boycott

Question 7

“Taxation without Representation”

Answer 7

This is when the colonist were mad about being taxed by the British government yet not being represented in Parlimaent or their discussion or actions

Question 8

Sons of Liberty

Answer 8

A group organized by Sam Adams to show colonist that they must be free from Britain, (Secret Society)

Question 9

Actions Taken (Sons of Liberty)

Answer 9

Liberty Tree and Boston Tea Party

Question 10

First Continental Congress

Answer 10

1774 a group of men organized a time and place where they discussed now to start the war and make colonist aware of it

Question 11

Actions Taken (First Continental Congress)

Answer 11

To train colonists to fight any case of a war to ban all trade with Britain

Question 12

Lobster Backs

Answer 12

Used of British during American Revolution War

Question 13

Patriots

Answer 13

An american colonist who sided with the rebels in the American Revolution

Question 14

Loyalist

Answer 14

An american colonist, who supported the British in the American Revolution

Question 15

Samuel Adams

Answer 15

A harvard scholar who was a patriot and started the sons of liberty tree and boston tea party

Question 16

Paul Revere

Answer 16

American silversmith, early industrialst and a partiot in America Revolution

Question 17

Crispus Attucks

Answer 17

The slave who started the boston massacre and was the first to be shot

Question 18

Proclamation

Answer 18

Britain prohibited its American colonists from setting west of App. Mts.

Question 19

Sugar Act

Answer 19

A law passed by parliment that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped on the colonies; also called for harsh punishment of smuggled

Question 20

Quarterting Act

Answer 20

A law passed by parliment that required the colonies to house and supply British soliders

Question 21

Stamp Act

Answer 21

Law passed by parliment that required all legal and commericail documents to carry an official stamp showing a tax had been paid