chapter 6 Notes

Question 1

Who was the royal governor of Massechusetts in 1771?

Answer 1

Thomas Hutchenson

Question 2

Hutchenson was a ___ generation American born with a ___

Answer 2

5th
Long record of public service.

Question 3

He was a loyal ____ during the decades leading up to the ___

Answer 3

colonial leader
American Revolution.

Question 4

He promoted a ____

Answer 4

plan of union to consolidate the colonies “Indian Policy”

Question 5

This plan ___

Answer 5

Failed

Question 6

After the plan failed, the ____

Answer 6

7 years war pitted Britain and its colonies against the French and their Indian Allies.

Question 7

The war ended with ___

Answer 7

Great British Victory

Question 8

Hutchenson believed that ____

Answer 8

the British governments plans to tax the colonies to help reimburse the war dept were perhaps unwise but legitimate.

Question 9

But the Bostonians ___

Answer 9

1.disagreed

Question 10

crowds began to ___, while Hutchinson maintained his ___ to the empire

Answer 10

Protests tax policies enacted in 1763.

Loyalty.

Question 11

British troops occupied ___ in response to the protests

Answer 11

Boston in 1769.

Question 12

When Gages 700 men made it to ____, ____

Answer 12

Lexington, about 70 militiamen were waiting for them. some only armed with pitchforks.

Question 13

They began to _____

Answer 13

back down when somebody fired shots at them and 8 colonists were killed and 9 were wounded.

Question 14

The Americans suffered ____ casualties, but inflicted ____ on the British all the way back to Boston

Answer 14

1.95 casualties
2.275

Question 15

At Breeds Hill, next to Bunkers Hill, the BR sent ___

Answer 15

2400 men to take the hills.

Question 16

Br. General Wim Howe launched ____

Answer 16

3 frontal attacks and more than 1000 are shot

Question 17

The settlers ran out of ___

Answer 17

aminition

Question 18

the settlers suffered about ____

Answer 18

370 casulaties

Question 19

In the meantime, the _____

Answer 19

2nd continental congress met in May of 1775

Question 20

What happened ant the 2nd continental congress?

Answer 20

The Delegates adopted measures to raise money for the army and navy

Question 21

They also chose ___ to be the head of the continental army

Answer 21

Goerge Washington

Question 22

By this time the colonial objective ___

Answer 22

is still not
Independence but to restore gov’t by consent under the Crown. The King stated that the
colonists were in open rebellion and he would not listen to petitions.

Question 23

What two peices helped colonists look closer to independence?

Answer 23

Mercaneries and Common Sense

Question 24

Thomas Paine summed up the reasons for trouble. He said that ___

Answer 24

Americans had a sacred mission–a moral obligation to the world to set
herself up as an independent, democratic republic, away from the influence of the corrupt
and monarchial Britain.

Question 25

On July 2, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of VA Motioned that the colonies should be ___

Answer 25

Free and independent states was adopted.

Question 26

____ prepared the Declaration of Independence which was approved on —

Answer 26

Thomas Jefferson July 4, 1776.