Chapter 5 Quiz
writs of assitance
One of the colonies' main complaints against Britain; the writs allowed unlimited search warrants without cause to look for evidence of smuggling.
Sons of Liberty
Organizations formed by Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and other radicals in response to the Stamp Act.
Stamp Act
Parliament's 1765 requirement that revenue stamps be affixed to all colonial printed matter, documents, and playing cards; the Stamp Act Congress met to formulate a response, and the act was repealed the following year.
The final decisive victory in the War for Independence was
Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown
Who was considered the "first martyr" of the American Revolution?
Crispus Attucks
Declaration of Independence
Document adopted on July 4, 1776, that made the break with Britain official; drafted by a committee of the Second Continental Congress, including principal writer Thomas Jefferson.
Battle of Bunker HIll
First major battle of the Revolutionary War; it actually took place at nearby Breed's Hill, Massachusetts, on June 17, 1775.
Continental Congress
First meeting of representatives of the colonies, held in Philadelphia in 1774 to formulate actions against British policies; in the Second Continental Congress (1775-1789), the colonial representatives conducted the war and adopted the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation.
Which of the "founding fathers" argued that Parliament had no right to authorize the Writs of Assistance to combat smuggling?
James Otis
Battle of Yorktown
Last battle of the Revolutionary War; General Lord Charles Cornwallis along with over 7,000 British troops surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 17, 1781
Battle of Saratoga
Major defeat of British general John Burgoyne and more than 5,000 British troops at Saratoga, New York, on October 17, 1777. Boosted Patriot morale.
The tactics of American resistance to British colonial policy from the mid-1760s through the mid-1770s included...
- boycotts on the importation of British goods. - mass demonstrations in the port towns. - speeches and pamphlets challenging Britain's right to tax its colonial subjects.
Sugar Act
1764 decision by Parliament to tax refined sugar and many other colonial products.
Townshend Acts
1767 parliamentary measures that taxed tea and other commodities, and established a Board of Customs Commissioners and colonial vice-admiralty courts.
Common Sense
A pamphlet anonymously written by Thomas Paine in January 1776 that attacked the English principles of hereditary rule and monarchical government.
Lord Dunmore's proclamation
A proclamation issued in 1775 by the earl of Dunmore, the British governor of Virginia, that offered freedom to any slave who fought for the king against the rebelling colonists.
Benedict Arnold
A traitorous American commander who planned to sell out the American garrison at West Point to the British. His plot was discovered before it could be executed and he joined the British army.
Continental army
Army authorized by the Continental Congress in 1775 to fight the British; commanded by General George Washington.
In September 1780, the able American commander ___________ turned traitor to the American cause and almost turned West Point over to the British.
Benedict Arnold
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Boston Tea Party; Olive Branch Petition; publication of Common Sense; Declaration of Independence
Boston Massacre
Clash between British soldiers and a Boston mob, March 6, 1770 - in which 5 colonists were killed
Following the Boston Tea Party, Parliament imposed restrictions on Massachusetts that included closing the port of Boston, curtailing town meetings, and allowing soldiers to be lodged in people's houses. These restrictions were called..
Coercive or Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts
Four parliamentary measures in reaction to the Boston Tea Party that forced payment for the tea, disallowed colonial trials of British soldiers, forced their quartering in private homes, and reduced the number of elected officials in Massachusetts.
What two European powers allied with the Americans in the War for independence?
France and Spain
The ruler of Great Britain during the time of the American Revolution was...
George III
Who was appointed the military commander of the army during the Second Continental Congress?
George Washington
Hessians
German soldiers, most from Hesse-Cassel principality (hence, the name), paid to fight for the British in the Revolutionary War.
Committee of Correspondence
Group organized by Samuel Adams in retaliation for the Gaspée incident to address American grievances, assert American rights, and form a network of rebellion.
Regulators
Groups of backcountry Carolina settlers who protested colonial policies.
Who engraved the image of the Boston Massacre that became one of the most influential pieces of political propaganda of the revolutionary era?
Paul Revere
The First Continental Congress met in..
Philadelphia
Who was NOT a member of the American delegation that negotiated the Treaty of Paris?
Samuel Adams Correct: James Jay, Washington, John Adams
On October 17, 1777, the Americans scored an important victory against British forces at
Saratoga
Treaty of Paris
Signed on September 3, 1783, the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, recognized American independence from Britain, established the border between Canada and the United States, fixed the western border at the Mississippi River, and ceded Florida to Spain.
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The first shots fired in the Revolutionary War, on April 19, 1775, near Boston; approximately 100 minutemen and 250 British soldiers were killed.
virtual representation
The idea that the American colonies, although they had no actual representative in Parliament, were "virtually" represented by all members of Parliament.
Boston Tea Party
The incident on December 16, 1773, in which the Sons of Liberty, dressed as Indians, dumped hundreds of chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act of 1773. Under the Tea Act, the British exported to the colonies millions of pounds of cheap—but still taxed—tea, thereby undercutting the price of smuggled tea and forcing payment of the tea duty.
"no taxation without representation"
The rallying cry of opponents to the 1765 Stamp Act. The slogan decried the colonists' lack of representation in Parliament.
Examples of the symbol "liberty" appeared in all of the following except...
a thin soup made only from colonial products called Liberte Consomme Correct answers: - the meeting space of Liberty Hill - a meeting place made of a pine mast known as the Liberty Pole - the politically charged hanging of an official in effigy at the Liberty Tree
Adding to Congress's formal declaration, the Declaration of Independence
declared the United States independent of British rule
What did the Sugar Act of 1764 do that so vexed the colonists due to the already existing tax on molasses imported from the French West Indies?
it decreased it
Which of the following did the Stamp Act affect?
newspapers
What did the 1766 Declaratory Act declare?
that Parliament had the power to pass laws for the colonies "in all cases whatever"
Which of the following was NOT a British law forbidding colonial manufacture?
the Molasses Act of 1733 Correct Answers: Wool Act of 1799 Iron Act of 1750 Hat Act of 1732
Which of the following was not a feature of the 1774 Intolerable Acts?
the repression of Catholicism in the colonies
When colonists insisted that because they were not represented in Parliament they could not be taxed by the British government, the British replied that they were represented by..
virtual representation
Both colonists and some in Britain decried the treatment of John Wilkes because he
was expelled from Parliament due to his scandalous remarks about the king
Committees of Correspondence in the colonies during the 1760s
were a group of colonial elites who exchanged ideas and information about resistance to the Sugar, Currency, and Stamp Acts.
the Daughters of Liberty were..
women who spun and wove cloth during the Townshend Duties boycott