Am His. Ch. 5 Exams

5 Written Questions

1. formal request to someone in authority, usually written and signed by a group of people
2. A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. (1. Shut down Boston Harbor until tea was paid for, no ships in or out. 2. No town meetings more than once a year. The British Army controlled the city. 3. Any colonist accused of crimes would be sent to England for the trial)
3. The French and British were fighting over who got the Ohio River. (British were pushing into French land)
4. company that brought tea and sold it to colonial merchants, but colonists boycotted taxed items, so 15 million pounds of tea sat unsold in British warehouses
5. Founder of the Sons of Liberty and one of the most vocal patriots for independence; signed the Declaration of Independence

5 Matching Questions

1. Declaratory Act
2. Edward Braddock
3. boycott
4. Stamp Act
5. Sugar Act

1. a Britain proclaimed the right to tax colonists for no reason without challenge
2. b To refuse to buy certain goods or services
3. c taxes charged by British in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents
4. d British General who was defeated at Fort Duquesne when he ignored warnings of ambushes.
5. e law passed by the British Parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. law forbidding english colonists to settle west of the appalachian mountains
   1. petition
   2. Proclamation of 1763
   3. Declaratory Act
   4. Patrick Henry
2. tax you pay on something you buy
   1. petition
   2. Duty
   3. boycott
   4. Sugar Act
3. Informed colonists of British actions. (organization was founded by Samuel Adams)
   1. Townshend Act
   2. Writs of Assistance
   3. Olive Branch Petition
   4. Committees of Correspondence
4. Outspoken member of House of Burgesses; inspired colonial patriotism with "Give me liberty or give me death" speech
   1. Patrick Henry
   2. petition
   3. Stamp Act
   4. Samuel Adams
5. stated that taxes applied only to imported goods
   1. Stamp Act
   2. Townshend Act
   3. John Adams
   4. Sugar Act

5 True/False Questions

1. Why did the Iroquois refuse to make an alliance with the British, against the French? → They expected the French to win.

   True        False

2. Ethan Allen → led the Green Mt. boys who captured and took the cannons from Fort Ticonderoga

   True        False

3. John Adams → Lawyer who defended British soldiers in the Boston Massacre trial. He believed in "innocent until proven guilty." In spite of these actions, he supported colonial independence.

   True        False

4. Writs of Assistance → legal document that enabled officers to search colonist's homes and warehouses for goods that might be smuggled (part of he Townshend Act)

   True        False

5. William Pitt → The Prime Minister of England during the French and Indian War. He increased the British troops and military supplies in the colonies, and this is why England won the war.

   True        False