Chapter 6 Study Guide

1. The British issued the Proclamation of 1763, which restricted colonists to settle west of the Appalachians making the colonist angry.

2. King George III was the King of England during the American Revolution.

3. The purpose of the Quartering Act was to require the colonies to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers.

4. England owed a large debt from the French and Indian War and wanted the American Colonies to help pay that debt.

5. The Sugar Act placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies.

6. Colonial leaders claimed that the English Parliament had no right to tax the colonies, since the colonists were not represented in Parliament.

7. The Stamp Act required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid.

8. Patrick Henry was a Virginia leader who called for resistance to the Stamp Act.

9. The group that staged protests against the Stamp Act was the Sons of Liberty.

10. Colonial assemblies and newspapers took up the cry—“No taxation without representation!”

11. Colonial merchants organized a boycott, which was a refusal to buy British goods.

12. In 1766 the English passed the Declaratory Act, stating that The English Parliament had supreme authority to govern the colonies.

13. Crispus Attucks lost his life to a British bullet in a protest that came to be known as the Boston Massacre.

14. The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that suspended New York’s assembly and established taxes on goods brought into the British colonies.

15. The writs of assistance permitted British officers to enter colonists' homes and businesses to search for smuggled goods.

16. Samuel Adams, was a leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty who urged colonists to continue to resist British controls.

17. The Daughters of Liberty called on colonists to weave their own cloth and use American products instead of imported goods from England.

18. A clash In 1770 between British soldiers and Boston colonists , in which five Americans were killed became known as the Boston Massacre.

19. A colonial lawyer named John Adams was criticized for defending several British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre.

20. Committee of correspondence was group of people in the colonies who exchanged letters on colonial affairs.

21. In 1773, The English Parliament passed the Tea Act giving the British East India Company control over the American tea trade.

22. The dumping of 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists, dressed as Native Americans, became known as the Boston Tea Party.

23. Minutemen were citizen-soldiers who were trained to be ready at a moment's notice.

24. A militia is a force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community

25. Intolerable Acts were a series of laws enacted by Parliament to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

26. The British called these laws the Coercive Acts, but they were so harsh that the colonists called them the Intolerable Acts.

27. In 1774, the First Continental Congress first met in Philadelphia to uphold colonial rights in opposition to the Intolerable Acts.

28. Paul Revere rode horseback at “midnight” to warn the colonist regarding the British troop movements.

29. Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the American Revolutionary War.

30. Ralph Waldo Emerson later wrote, colonial troops fired the “shot heard ’round the world.”

31. During the American Revolution those who supported the British were called Loyalists.

32. During the American Revolution those who sided with the rebels were Patriots.

33. In May 1775, the Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen captured a British fort on Lake Champlain in New York.

34. On May 10^th 1775, the Second Continental Congress began to act as a government for the colonies by forming the Continental Army.

35. George Washington was chosen as commanding general of the Continental Army.

36. During the Battle of Bunker Hill, the American Colonel William Prescott ordered, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”

37. The Olive Branch Petition represents the last attempt to avoid a war of independence against Britain.

38. Benedict Arnold, an officer who had played a key role in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, and led the invasion of Canada.

39. Thomas Paine published a pamphlet called Common Sense in order to convince Americans that a break with Britain was necessary.

40. The Continental Congress chose Jefferson to compose the Declaration of Independence.

41. On July 4, 1776, Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.

42. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote that people had a right to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

43. The Declaration of Independence is based on the idea that people have inalienable rights, which the government cannot take away.

44. Patrick Henry a member of the House of Burgesses called for resistance to the Stamp Act.

45. The Declaratory Act stated that Great Britain had the authority to govern the colonies.

46. The writs of assistance were search warrants that gave British officers the authority to search colonists' homes and businesses.

47. The Sons of Liberty staged both peaceful and violent protests against Parliament's laws in the fight for liberty in the colonies.

48. George Washington was the first president of the United States

49. John Adams was the second president of the United States.

50. Jamestown was founded in 1607.