Test 2 part 1 notes

Question 1

After the 7 years war ended, ____ decided that the American colonists should help ___

Answer 1

Prime Minister George Greenville.

Pay for their own defense.

Question 2

The government issued the _____, and a series of acts designed to___

Answer 2

Proclamation Act of 1763

halt smuggling and to centralize the governments control for colonies

Question 3

These actions will irreparably____

Answer 3

damage
the relationship between the mother country and her colonial possessions.

Question 4

Colonists would begin to___ which will eventually lead to___

Answer 4

unite
Revolution

Question 5

From 1765-1775, three major crises ultimately destroyed Britain’s North American
Empire:___

These three acts brought ___

Answer 5

1.The Stamp Act crisis, the Townsend taxes, and the incidents that occurred in
response to the Tea Act.
2. war that neither side wanted or
expected but that both side made inevitable.

Question 6

The first imperial crisis stemmed from the____

Answer 6

Stamp Act of 1765.

Question 7

The colonists believed that the stamp act was an attempt to ___

Answer 7

Make revenue, not regulate trade

Question 8

Colonists believed that it was an ____

Answer 8

unconstitutional attempt by Parliament to
confiscate colonist’s property; taxation was something only the colonial assemblies
should undertake.

Question 9

Through coordinated action and the vigilante activism of “_____” the colonies except for____ managed to keep ___ from ever being ___

Answer 9

1.“The Sons of Liberty”
2.Georgia
3. Stamp Paper
4.Circulated

Question 10

After this, the Stamp Act was ___

Answer 10

Repealed

Question 11

In 1767, many parliament memebers welcomes ____ plan to impose ____

Answer 11

Charles Townsend’s

taxes on colonies

Question 12

Townsend argued that the colonies would agree duties on ____

Answer 12

tea, lead, glass, and other enumorated imports.

Question 13

Townsend was in error, and the result of his___

Answer 13

his miscalculation was the second major crisis of
the period.

Question 14

Rejecting Townsend’s distinction between internal and external taxation,

Answer 14

the
colonists again organized resistance to Parliamentary actions, this time through non-
importation agreements, by which colonial merchants would non import British
goods.

Question 15

The third and final crisis stems from the ____

Answer 15

Tea Act of 1773.

Question 16

The Tea act was designed to ___

Answer 16

Induce the colonists to buy duties tea and thus save the East India Company.

Question 17

At this time, the East India Company was ____

Answer 17

loosing business.

Question 18

Who were they loosing business to?

Answer 18

Dutch Tea Smugglers.

Question 19

Who threw shiploads of East India Company Tea into the Boston Harbor?

Answer 19

Sons of Liberty

Question 20

Coercive Acts-

Answer 20

These
precipitated the American Revolution. By April 1775 the colonists and the British empire
were at war.

Question 21

One of the conflicts was the ___

Answer 21

Boston Massecre.

Question 22

Well, colonies responded to the Intolerable acts by summoning the ____

Answer 22

First Continental
Congress in September of 1774.

Question 23

All colonies but ____ were represented in the first continental congress.

Answer 23

Goergia

Question 24

Where was the first Continental Congress held?

Answer 24

Philadelphia

Question 25

What did they call for during this continental congress?

Answer 25

A boycott of British Goods.

Question 26

They sent petitions to parliament who___

Answer 26

rejected them.

Question 27

Who was the British Commander in Boston in 1775?

Answer 27

General Gage.

Question 28

General Gage had heard news about ___

Answer 28

Trouble makers storing ammunition and weapons in Lexington.

Question 29

How did Lord North respond to this?

Answer 29

Lord North responded by sending him orders to destroy the arms and arrest John Hancock and Samual Adam’s.

Question 30

____ made it through Lexington before he was____

Answer 30

1.Paul Revere 2.Captured

Question 31

___ got the word about Paul Reveres arrest out to Concord.

Answer 31

Samual Prescott.