Ch6 The Road To Revolution Test B

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Why did the British government begin to tax its American colonies after the Proclamtion of 1763?

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to raise money to pay the costs of defending the colonists

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Some colonists claimed that Great Britain had no right to tax the colonies because

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no one had been elected by the colonies to represent them in the British Parliament.

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officer who helped lead the Continental Army's invasion Canada

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-Benedict Arnold

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-sailor of African and Native American ancestry who was one of the five colonists killed in the Boston Massacre

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-Crispus Attucks

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-author of Common Sense, a pamphlet that presented a strong case for independence from Great Britian

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-Thomas Paine

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Virginian serving in the Second Continental Congress who was chosen to lead the Continental Army

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George Washington

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president of the Continental Congress and the first signer of the Declaration of Independence; wrote his name very large so that George III could read it

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John Hancock

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member of the Second Continental Congress who had defended the British soldiers accused in the Boston Massacre

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John Adams

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-A secret group that led colonial resistance to the Stamp Act was the

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-Sons of Liberty

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-One way in which the colonists opposed the Townshend Acts was to

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-refuse to buy British products until the acts were repealed

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The following is true of the Tea Act.

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1)It put a tax on the tea that the colonist imported. 2)It gave control of the American tea trade to the British East India Company.
3)Colonial shippers and merchants disliked the law.

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The group that met to organize united resistance in the colonies to the Introlerable Acts was called the

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First Continental Congress

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The following is true of the Second Continental Congress.

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Before it could meet, fighting broke out between the colonial militias and British troops.

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The following is true of the Second Continental Congress.

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It sent a petition to London asking for a peaceful settlement.

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The following is true of the Second Continental Congress.

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It began to act as a government for the colonies.

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At first, the Continental Army

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was a poorly trained militia fighting against professional troops.

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The Declaration of Independence was written by

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Thomas Jefferson.

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The Declaration of Independence is based on ideas about law and people's rights that were first stated by

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John Locke.

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T or F, The colonist were unhappy because the British government would not let them expand west onto new fertile land in the Ohio Valley.

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true

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T or F, The Proclamation of 1763 required the colonists to pay a tax on all legal documents such as wills, contracts, and diplomas.

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Stamp Act

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

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True

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One action that Boston colonists took to oppose the Stamp Act was an event that became known as the Boston Tea Party.

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Tea Act

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The natural right that colonists believed was violated by the writs of assistance was people's right to keep their lives secure.

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possessions (or property)

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To punish the people of Boston for the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed a series of laws that the colonists called the Intolerable Acts.

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True

Front 25

The British were forced to leave Boston when Washington bombarded the city with British cannons captured after a battle at Fort Ticonderoga.

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True

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As British troops left Boston, many Patriots, or colonists who supported Great Britain, also fled the city.

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Loyalists