Road to Revolution EXAM REVIEW. Appalachian Mountains 0 The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited...

Road to Revolution

EXAM REVIEW

Appalachian Mountains

0The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited colonists from moving west of the ?

Sugar Act

0The British government tried to stop smuggling with the ______ Act?

Ethan Allen

0Who led the Green Mountain Boys?

Stamp Act

0What act taxed almost all printed material in the colonies?

Thomas Jefferson

0The man who wrote the Declaration of Independence was:

John Hancock

0Who was chosen as president of the Second Continental Congress?

Thomas Paine

0Who wrote Common Sense?

Writs of assistance

0To search a colonist’s house, a British customs officer presented :

Loyalists

0Which colonists did not consider unfair taxes a good reason for rebellion?

Patriots

0Which colonists wanted to fight the British for American Independence?

Olive Branch Petition

0The colonists expressed their desire for peace and protection in the ________

Declaratory

0Which act stated that Parliament had the right to make laws and levy taxes on the colonists “in all cases what so ever!”

They were not represented in Parliament

**no taxation without representation

0The colonists claimed that Parliament did not have the right to tax them because?

Violated their rights as Englishmen

0Colonists objected to both writs of assistance and the Quartering Act because they?

Save the East India Tea Co. from going out of business

0The chief goal of the Tea Act was to

Lexington and Concord

0The battle generally associated with the phrase, “…here the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard ‘round the world.”

Defeated**but it was a psychological victory

0The first major battle of the Revolutionary War was

0Patriot forces were _____________________in this first major battle.

Battle of Bunker’s Hill

July 4, 1776

0The Declaration of Independence was adopted/signed by the Second Continental Congress on:

The Declaration of Independence

0The expression “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” appears in ---- ___________________

Consent of the Governed**governments are formed by men to secure

their rights0Which is the fundamental principle of government

expressed in the Declaration of Independence?

First Continental Congress

0Delegates from twelve colonies gathered in Philadelphia at the ___________________________to unite against the Intolerable Acts

Daughters of Liberty

0Members of the _________________ signed pledges against drinking tea to protest the Tea Act.

Committees of Correspondence

0Sam Adams organized the first ____________________ to inform colonists about British actions.

Second Continental Congress

0Delegates from all thirteen colonies gathered at the ____________________ to appoint a military leader and prepare for war.

Sugar

0Lowered a tax on imports of foreign molasses in order to stop colonial smuggling.

Boston Massacre

0Event was used as “propaganda” to encourage colonial resistance against the British.

Tea Act

0The ___________________________ Act allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists.

Treaty of Paris, 1763

0The __________________________________ gave Canada, Florida and all French lands east of the Mississippi River to Britain

Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)

0Acts were restrictions passed by Parliament to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party.

Stamp Act

0The ___________________________ taxed all printed / legal documents.

Quartering Act

0The __________________________ required colonists to pay for the housing and feeding of British soldiers

Boston Tea Party

0A protest by the Sons of Liberty against a monopoly by the British East India Company was given the name_____________________________________.

Townshend Acts

0The ________________________ taxed imported goods of glass, lead, paper, paint and tea.

Proclamation of 1763

0The ___________________________________Limited colonial westward expansion - - colonist felt this was a limit on their freedom