The Spirit of Independence - Chapter 5

Sold military information to the British

Benedict Arnold

Who led the failed American attack on Quebec?

Benedict Arnold

Who ran the first post office established by the Second Continental Congress?

Benjamin Franklin

Paul Revere's engraving of which event was an example of propaganda that led to more intense anti-British feelings among the colonists?

Boston Massacre

What was the dramatic act of defiance that some colonists celebrated?

Boston Tea Party

Leader of minutemen

Captain John Parker

What happened when three East India Company ships arrived in Boston Harbor in 1773?

Colonists boarded the ships and threw chests of tea overboard

Storage place for Arms

Concord

What did the colonists organize to fight against Great Britain?

Continental Army

Victim of Boston Massacre

Crispus Attucks

Who was one of the five people killed in the Boston Massacre?

Crispus Attucks

Which act stated that Parliament did have the right to tax colonists?

Declaratory Act

Leader of the Green Mountain Boys

Ethan Allen

Who led the Green Mountain Boys who captured the British-held Fort Ticonderoga?

Ethan Allen

True or False: Parliament successfully isolated Boston from the rest of the colonies by passing the Coercive Acts

False

True or False: The Second Continental Congress chose Thomas Jefferson to command the Continental Army

False

True or False: The Stamp Act outraged colonists because they believed that only Parliament could tax them

False

True or False: The committee of correspondence was a system of letter writing between the colonial governors and the king

False

Voted to boycott British trade

First Continental Congress

Who refused to receive the Olive Branch Petition?

George III

Who was the first commander of the Continental Army?

George Washington

President of the Second Continental Congress

John Hancock

Who was the first man to sign the Declaration of Independence

John Hancock

Thomas Jefferson drew on the ideas of which English Philosopher when writing the Declaration of Independence?

John Locke

To which location does "The shot heard 'round the world" refer?

Lexington and Concord

Which type of colonists sided with Britain?

Loyalists

Where did may colonists believe that fighting with the British would first break out?

New England

How did Parliament react to the news of the Boston Tea Party?

Parliament passed the Coercive Acts

Who persuaded the House of Burgesses to take action against the Stamp Act?

Patrick Henry

Which colonists wanted to fight the British for American Independence?

Patriots

Warned that the British were coming

Paul Revere

Organized the Sons of Liberty

Samuel Adams

Which act taxes almost all printed material in the colonies?

Stamp Act

What allowed the colonists to pay lower taxes on molasses?

Sugar Act

Which act did the British government enact to try to stop smuggling?

Sugar Act

What act gave the East India Company an advantage over colonial merchants?

Tea Act

The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited colonists from moving west of which area?

The Appalachian Mountains

One of the ways that women protested the Townshend Acts?

They boycotted the material sold by Britain, instead choosing to make their own textiles

Why were some militia men known as minutemen?

They claimed they could be ready at a minutes notice

Who had orders to take away the weapons of the Massachusetts miltia?

Thomas Gage

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Thomas Jefferson

Who wrote Common Sense?

Thomas Paine

Wrote a pamphlet calling for a break with British rule

Thomas Paine

Why was the Continental Congress formed?

To set up a political body that would challenge British control

True or False: At the time of the Boston Tea Party, most colonists still considered themselves as British citizens

True

True or False: Boycotts following the Boston Massacre helped repeal the Townshend Acts

True

True or False: One of the Coercive Acts forced the colonies to allow British solders to live among the colonists.

True

True or False: Some colonists were Loyalists who sided with Britain; the other colonists were Patriots who supported the right to independence

True

True or False: The Proclamation of 1763 helped Britain control Westward expansion

True

Who, along with Paul Revere, warned Samuel Adams that they British were coming?

William Dawes

According to the Declaration of Independence, what was America's new status?

a new nation

Which document did a British customs officer present in order to search a colonist's house?

a writ of assistance

How did the King and Parliament view of the American colonies?

as a source of funds

How did colonial leaders use the Boston Massacre killings

as propaganda

What did writs of assistance allow British customs officers to search

homes for smuggled good

What did writs of assistance allow British customs officers to search?

homes for smuggled goods

What was the colonial name for laws that banned town meetings in New England?

intolerable acts

What did the Olive Branch Petition ask the king to do?

protect the colonists' rights

Against whom did George Granville convince Parliament to take action?

smugglers

What demonstrated the colonists' desire for peace?

the Olive Branch Peitition

What did some colonists do to avoid taxes?

they resorted to smugging

Why were colonists angry after the Tea Act?

they wanted to make their own decisions about what tea to buy

What was the purpose of a committee of correspondence?

to circulate calls for action against Britian