Chapter 6 Study Guide

1. In 1763 most of the land east of the Appalachians Mountains was already settled.

2. The British issued the Proclamation of 1763, which restricted colonists from settle west of the Appalachians Mountains.

3. In 1763 many settlers were already crossing the Appalachians Mountains.

4. The Proclamation of 1763 was meant to keep the American Colonist and Native Americans from killing each other.

5. Many Americans thought the Kings Proclamation of 1763 was an unjust use of government power.

6. To enforce the Proclamation of 1763 the King sent 7,500 men to the Colonies.

7. The British wanted the American Colonist to pay for the troops they sent to enforce the Proclamation of 1763.

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

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

10. The British owed a large debt from the French and Indian War.

11. The British wanted the American Colonies to help pay for the Troops and their debt.

12. The British Government felt that it was time for the Colonist to pay their fair share of the cost for protection.

13. Creating colonies to make your country rich was known as Mercantilism.

14. Under Mercantilism England regulated the economic activities of the colonies to gain wealth and power.

15. The American colonies were a rich source of natural resource such as cotton, tobacco and lumber for England.

16. To make more money Britain began to Tax and regulate the colonies.

17. The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act which required colonist to buy a stamp for every piece of paper they used.

18. The colonist thought that the Stamp Act was an example Tyranny by the British Government.

19. The Colonist were willing to pay taxes that were passed by their own assemblies.

20. There were no representatives from the colonies in the British Parliament.

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

22. Without representation the Colonist felt the British Parliament had no right to tax them.

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

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

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

26. The Tea Act gave the British East India Company complete control over buying and selling tea in the Colonies.

27. The dumping tea into Boston Harbor by colonists, dressed as Native Americans, became known as the Boston Tea Party.

28. To punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party, The British Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts

29. After months of protest the British Parliament repealed or canceled the Stamp Act.

30. Crispus Attucks was killed by a British Soldier during the Boston Massacre.

31. The Townshend Acts suspended New York’s assembly and created taxes.

32. The writs of assistance permitted British officers to search colonists' homes and businesses.

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

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

35. Samuel Adams, was a leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty.

36. The Daughters of Liberty called on colonists to make their own cloth and c and not use imported goods from England.

37. A clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists became known as the Boston Massacre.

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

39. In 1774, the First Continental Congress first met in Philadelphia to find a way to oppose the Intolerable Acts.

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

41. Listen my children and you shall hear the midnight ride of Paul Revere.

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

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

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

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

46. Thomas Paine published a pamphlet called Common Sense in order to convince Americans to declare Independence.

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

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

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

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