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Quiz #1 Study Stack
Study Guide to help prepare for Quiz #1
Question | Answer |
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This event put Britain deeply into Debt. | The French and Indian War |
This banned all settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. | Proclamation of 1763 |
This is how the colonists responded to the Proclamation of 1763. | They ignored it |
This put a duty on several products, including molasses. | Sugar Act |
The Sugar Act also called for harsh punishment of this type of person. | Smugglers |
The required colonists to provide homes and food for British soldiers. | Quartering Act |
This put a tax on items such as newspapers and legal documents. | Stamp Act |
Colonial merchants did this to show their opposition to the Stamp Act. | Boycotted British goods |
This was passed to claim that Parliament had total authority over the colonies. | Declaratory Act |
These set up a system to enforce new import duties. | Townshend Acts |
Colonists protested these court orders which were used to search for illegal goods. | Writs of assistance |
Parliament repealed all of the Townshend duties except this one, which was left to demonstrate Parliaments right to tax the colonies. | Tea |
This event occurred on March 5th 1770 in which 5 Boston citizens were killed and six were injured. | Boston Massacre |
Colonists set up these to keep colonists informed of British actions. | Committees of Correspondance |
This lowered the price of Tea, gave the East India Tea Company a British Tea monopoly, and prevented colonists from selling Dutch tea for cheaper. | Tea Act |
This is how the colonists protested against the Tea Act. | Stopped East India ships from unloading tea at ports and dumping 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor |
This was Britain's response to the Boston Tea Party. | Intolerable Acts |
This closed the Boston port, increased the royal governors power, abolished the Massachusetts legislature, cut the power of town meetings, and strengthened the Quartering Act. | The Intolerable Acts |
This took away western land claimed by colonies and blocked colonists from moving west. | Quebec Act |
This was a meeting in Philadelphia to decide what the colonists should do after the Intolerable Acts. | The First Continental Congress |
This was Britain reaction to the first Continental Congress. | Use force on the colonies |
This is who rode to warn the minutemen that the British were on their way. | Paul Revere and William Dawes |
The First shot of the Revolutionary War was fired in this town. (The shot heard round the world) | Lexington |