Chapter 4

Question 1

Who was the leader of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 1

Samuel Adams

Question 2

What was the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 2

• Groups of merchants, craftsmen, etc
• Terrorized stamp agents and burned stamps
• Ended sale of stamps

Question 3

Who were the Daughters of Liberty?

Answer 3

• Abigail Adams
• Mercy Otis Warren

Question 4

What did the Daughters of Liberty do?

Answer 4

• Boycott British goods and manufacture their own products
• Give up their tea for their freedom

Question 5

Who was Mercy Otis Warren?

Answer 5

• Wrote pamphlets and poems criticizing British policies
• Encouraged independence
• Used satire
• Hosted salons

Question 6

What was the non-important movement?

Answer 6

• Widespread boycott of British goods to protest taxes
• Women played a vital role with spinning bees and homemade cloth

Question 7

What is spinning bees?

Answer 7

Creating your own cloth to protest against British taxes

Question 8

What was the Declaratory Act?

Answer 8

• Passed after repealing Stamp Act
• Said Parliament had the right to legislate over the colonists in “all cases whatsoever”

Question 9

What were Townshend duties?

Answer 9

tax on common imported items like glass, paint, paper and tea

Question 10

What were the letters John Dickinson received?

Answer 10

• From a farmer
• Argued that only elected assemblies could tax colonists
• Helped unite colonists in protest

Question 11

What were Bostonians doing that ignited the Boston Massacre?

Answer 11

• Harassing customs officials and British troops were stationed there
• Throwing snowballs, rocks, and oyster shells
• Held clubs

Question 12

How did John Adams help British guards during the Boston Massacre?

Answer 12

• Adams acted as a defense attorney
• Sentenced guilty to manslaughter
• Less punishment than started out with

Question 13

What did the East India Company do before bankruptcy?

Answer 13

• East India Company created a monopoly from tea
• The tea was cheaper than smugglers’s tea
• Still taxed by Townsend act

Question 14

Why did smugglers suffer at the hands of the East India Company?

Answer 14

• They were losing profit

Question 15

What was the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 15

• Response to the Tea Act
• Patriots dressed as Mohawks boarded British ships at the Boston harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea into waters

Question 16

What were the intolerable acts?

Answer 16

Laws to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party

Question 17

How was Massachusetts punished?

Answer 17

• Lost Boston Harbor until tea was paid for
• restricted self governance
• requested them to house troops

Question 18

What was the Quebec Act?

Answer 18

• Expanded territory south into the Ohio River Valley where some colonists had wanted.
• granted rights for French Catholics

Question 19

What were the Committees of Correspondence?

Answer 19

• Groups of colonists who communicated colonial grievances and shared news about British actions
• Originally in Massachusetts
• Formed by Samuel Adams

Question 20

What was the Continental Congress?

Answer 20

• Delegates from 12 colonies except Georgia
• Responded to the Intolerable Acts
• Petition the King to restore colonial rights
• Organize boycotts and prepare militarily if necessary

Question 21

Why did Georgia not send delegates?

Answer 21

• facing conflicts with Native American tribes
• relied on British military support

Question 22

Who warned that the British were coming?

Answer 22

• Paul Revere
• William Dawes

Question 23

What happened at Lexington and Concord?

Answer 23

• First shots heard around the world
• British had to retreat