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Road to Revolution
Causes of the Revolutionary War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was Samuel Adams? | 1722-1803 Leader of Massachusetts. |
| Who was John Adams? | 1735-1826 Second U.S. President; |
| What was the Boston Tea Party? | Patriots boarded ships carrying British tea and dumped it into the harbor. |
| What is a boycott? | A refusal to buy certain goods for political reasons. |
| What were the Coercive Acts? | The same as the Intolerable Acts. |
| What is a colonial system? | When a ruling country and it's colonies constitute an Empire. |
| What is a colony? | An overseas possession or territory ruled by its mother country. |
| What is the Committees of Correspondence? | They wrote letters to share ideas and information about colonial problems. |
| What is the Declaratory Act 1765? | Declared that Britain's power was not to be questioned. |
| What are duties? | Taxes on imported goods. |
| What does economic mean? | Refers to doing things for reasons of profit, money, and wealth. |
| What is economic pressure? | Usually means to force a government or business to do something causing financial harm. |
| What happened at the First Continental Congress 1774? | Colonists met in Philadelphia 1774 to try to solve the problems caused by the Intolerable Acts. |
| What was the French and Indian War? | A series of wars over land in the Ohio Valley. |
| Who was George the Third? | King of Great Britain from 1760-1820. |
| What was the goal of the Intolerable Acts? | Meant to punish the colony of Mass Bay for The Boston Tea Party. |
| What is a legislature? | A group assembled for the purpose of making laws. |
| What is the parliament? | An assembly of persons who meet to make and change laws. |
| What was the Quartering Act? | Required colonists to provide food and shelter for British troops. |
| What was the Stamp Act? | A law enacted in 1765 that required payment of a tax stamp on paper goods. |
| What was the Sugar Act? | Placed a tax called a tariff on sugar, molasses, wine, and coffee brought into the colonies. |
| What is a tariff? | Taxes placed on foreign imports to control trade and protect a nation's businesses. |
| Who were the Torries? | The Tory political party believed the king should keep firm control over the colonists. |
| What is the Townshend Acts? | Placed import duties on tea, glass, lead, paint, and paper. |
| Who were the Whigs? | A British political party that believed in colonial self-government. |
| Who were the Loyalist? | Americans who were loyal to Great Britain |
| What was the Proclamation of 1763? | Closed the lands west of the Appalachians to colonial settlement. |
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