5.1-3

Question 1

year of the Stamp Act Congress

Answer 1

1765

Question 2

year of the Boston Tea Party

Answer 2

1773

Question 3

year of the First Continental Congress

Answer 3

1774

Question 4

date of the “shot heard round the world”

Answer 4

April 19, 1775

Question 5

year of the Second Continental Congress

Answer 5

1775

Question 6

where was the shot heard round the world?

Answer 6

Lexington and Concord

Question 7

hands-off policy that England originally used

Answer 7

laissez faire

Question 8

system where the measure of the nation’s wealth is gold and silver

Answer 8

mercantile theory

Question 9

these were put in place to regulate and monopolize trade

Answer 9

Navigation Acts of 1660 and 1663

Question 10

six-man group used to control and create laws or regulations dealing with colonial trade

Answer 10

Board of Trade

Question 11

4 effects of the French and Indian War on the colonies

Answer 11

1. experience in self-defense
2. less dependent on England for protection
3. England struggled to defend their empire
4. financial problems for England

Question 12

Native American war led by their chief against British frontier colonists

Answer 12

Pontiac’s Conspiracy

Question 13

search warrants

Answer 13

Writs of Assistance

Question 14

Patrick Henry defended the House of Burgesses in the ______ court case; the colonists lost

Answer 14

Parson’s Cause

Question 15

England’s king who began ruling in 1760

Answer 15

George III

Question 16

became the Prime Minister of England in 1763 and designed a “program” to control the colonies

Answer 16

George Grenville

Question 17

declared that west of the Appalachians could not be settled

Answer 17

Proclamation of 1763

Question 18

New York’s statement in response to Grenville’s program

Answer 18

“no taxation without representation”

Question 19

wrote “The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved”

Answer 19

James Otis

Question 20

political organization led by Samuel Adams that protested the new taxes

Answer 20

Sons of Liberty

Question 21

one of Britain’s greatest statesmen and political thinkers; defendant of the colonies

Answer 21

Edmund Burke

Question 22

said that the colonies were subordinate to Great Britain and Parliament had the power to pass laws in the colonies

Answer 22

Declaratory Act

Question 23

Chancellor of the Exchequer (in charge of the treasury)

Answer 23

Charles Townshend

Question 24

new taxes on paper, paint, lead, and tea

Answer 24

Townshend Acts

Question 25

controlled colonial taxes created by the Townshend Acts

Answer 25

board of customs

Question 26

wrote "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies" and protested the right of Parliament to legislate the colonies

Answer 26

John Dickinson

Question 27

situation where British soldiers were antagonized and they killed 5 American citizens

Answer 27

Boston Massacre (2 soldiers received light punishment)

Question 28

new Prime Minister in 1770, who repealed all the Townshend Acts except the one on tea

Answer 28

Lord North

Question 29

event where a British ship was burned by the colonists in 1772

Answer 29

Gaspee Incident

Question 30

____ were formed by Sam Adams to help inform the colonies of issues with England

Answer 30

Committees of Correspondence

Question 31

England's bankrupt tea company

Answer 31

British East India Company

Question 32

occurred when citizens disguised as Native Americans boarded British ships and dumped tea into Boston Harbor

Answer 32

Boston Tea Party (1773)

Question 33

result of the Boston Tea Party

Answer 33

the "Intolerable Acts"

Question 34

the ______ closed the port of Boston

Answer 34

Boston Port Bill

Question 35

said that legal offenses would be tried in Great Britain

Answer 35

Administration of Justice Act

Question 36

limited self-government in Massachussetts

Answer 36

Massachusetts Government Act

Question 37

allowed soldiers to live in any structure they chose

Answer 37

Quartering Act

Question 38

cancelled all western land claims by extending Quebec's borders

Answer 38

Quebec Act

Question 39

meeting of 12 of the 13 colonies that rejected Parliament but claimed King George III still; met in Philadelphia September 1774

Answer 39

First Continental Congress

Question 40

"Give me liberty or give me death"

Answer 40

Patrick Henry

Question 41

colonial “soldiers” who were trained to fight at a “minute’s notice”

Answer 41

minutemen

Question 42

British general in charge of the soldiers in Boston

Answer 42

Thomas Gage

Question 43

two small villages located 20 miles outside Boston; where colonial leaders were

Answer 43

Lexington and Concord