Chapter 5 Review

court document allowing customs officers to enter any location to search for smuggled goods

• Writ of Assistance

- to refuse to buy items in order to show disapproval or force acceptance of one’s terms

• Boycott

an official expression of opinion by a group• Resolution

- a mocking figure representing an unpopular individual• Effegy

- incoming money from taxes or other sources• Revenue

- an organization that spread political ideas and information through the colonies• Committee of Correspondance

- open defiance of authority

• Rebellion

- to cancel an act or law

• Repeal

ideas of information intentionally spread to harm or help a cause• Propaganda

voted to boycott

• Continental Congress

storage place for arms

• Concord

- sold military information to the British• Benedict Arnold

warned that the British were coming

• Paul Revere

leader of the minutemen

• Captain John Parker

15. What did writs of assistance allow British customs officers to search?• Homes for smuggled goods

16. What act allowed the colonists to pay lower taxes on molasses?• Sugar Act

17. What act taxed colonists without their consent?• Stamp Act

18. What act stated that Parliament did have the right to tax colonists?• Declaratory Act

19. When Britain learned that the colonists were on the brink of rebellion in 1768, what was Parliament’s response?

• Parliament sent troops to Boston

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

• Boston Massacre

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

22. What was the dramatic act of defiance that some colonists celebrated?• Boston Tea Party

23. Who had orders to take away the weapons of the Massachusetts militia? • Thomas Gage

24. Who, along with Paul Revere, warned Samual Adams that the British were coming?• William Dawes

25. Who led the Green Mountain Boys who captured the British-held Fort Ticonderoga?• Ethan Allen

26. After winning what battle did the British learn that defeating the Americans would not be easy?

• Battle of Bunker Hill

27. What group did the colonies organize to fight against Great Britain?• Continental Army

28. Who was the first commander of the Continental Army? • George Washington

29. Thomas Jefferson drew on the ideas of which English philosopher when writing the Declaration of Independence?

• John Locke

30. Who was the first man to sign the Declaration of Independence?• John Hancock

31. Who was a victim of the Boston Massacre?• Crispus Attucks

32. Who wrote a pamphlet calling for a break with British rule?• Thomas Paine

33. Who was the president of the Second Continental Congress?• John Hancock

34. Who was the leader of the Green Mountain Boys?• Ethan Allen

35. Who organized the Sons of Liberty?• Samuel Adams

36. What did the colonists call the Coercive Acts? Why did Britain pass these laws? • The Intolerable Acts. As punishment for the Boston Tea Party.

37. Why did British troops march to Concord?• To seize and destroy all the artillery and ammunition.

38. Whose ideas inspired Thomas Jefferson while writing the Declaration of Independence? What were those ideas?

• John Locke. That people are born with certain natural rights to life, liberty and property.

39. Why did some colonist smuggle goods?• To avoid being tax.

40. Why was Common Sense by Thomas Paine significant? • It influenced colonists to want independence.