Chapter 6 Study Guide s1

Chapter 6 Study Guide

1. 1. The British issued the ______, which restricted colonists to settle west of the Appalachians making the colonist angry. 2. 2. ______was the King of England during the American Revolution. 3. 3. The purpose of the Quartering Act was to require the colonies to provide ______and supplies for British soldiers. 4. 4. England owed a large debt from the French and Indian War and wanted the ______to help pay that debt. 5. 5. The ______placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies. 6. 6. Colonial leaders claimed that the English Parliament had no right to tax the colonies, since the colonists were not ______in Parliament. 7. 7. The ______required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid. 8. 8. ______was a Virginia leader who called for resistance to the Stamp Act. 9. 9. The group that staged protests against the Stamp Act was the ______. 10. 10. Colonial assemblies and newspapers took up the cry—“No taxation without ______” 11. 11. Colonial merchants organized a ______, which was a refusal to buy British goods. 12. 12. In 1766 the English passed the ______Act, stating that The English Parliament had supreme authority to govern the colonies. 13. 13. Crispus Attucks lost his life to a British bullet in a protest that came to be known as the Boston ______. 14. 14. The ______Acts were a series of laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that suspended New York’s assembly and established taxes on goods brought into the British colonies. 15. 15. The ______permitted British officers to enter colonists' homes and businesses to search for smuggled goods. 16. 16. ______, was a leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty who urged colonists to continue to resist British controls. 17. 17. The ______of Liberty called on colonists to weave their own cloth and use American products instead of imported goods from England. 18. 18. A clash In 1770 between British soldiers and Boston colonists , in which five Americans were killed became known as the ______. 19. 19. A colonial lawyer named ______was criticized for defending several British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre. 20. 20. ______was group of people in the colonies who exchanged letters on colonial affairs. 21. 21. In 1773, The English Parliament passed the ______giving the British East India Company control over the American tea trade. 22. 22. The dumping of 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists, dressed as Native Americans, became known as the ______. 23. 23. ______were citizen-soldiers who were trained to be ready at a moment's notice. 24. 24. A ______is a force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community 25. 25. ______were a series of laws enacted by Parliament to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. 26. 26. The British called these laws the ______, but they were so harsh that the colonists called them the Intolerable Acts. 27. 27. In 1774, the First ______first met in Philadelphia to uphold colonial rights in opposition to the Intolerable Acts. 28. 28. ______rode horseback at “midnight” to warn the colonist regarding the British troop movements. 29. 29. ______were the first battles of the American Revolutionary War. 30. 30. Ralph Waldo Emerson later wrote, colonial troops fired the “shot heard ’round the ______.” 31. 31. During the American Revolution those who supported the British were called ______. 32. 32. During the American Revolution those who sided with the rebels were ______. 33. 33. In May 1775, the Green Mountain Boys led by ______captured a British fort on Lake Champlain in New York. 34. 34. On May 10th 1775, the Second ______began to act as a government for the colonies by forming the Continental Army. 35. 35. ______was chosen as commanding general of the Continental Army. 36. 36. During the Battle of ______, the American Colonel William Prescott ordered, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” 37. 37. The ______Petition represents the last attempt to avoid a war of independence against Britain. 38. 38. ______, an officer who had played a key role in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, and led the invasion of Canada. 39. 39. Thomas Paine published a pamphlet called ______in order to convince Americans that a break with Britain was necessary. 40. 40. The Continental Congress chose ______to compose the Declaration of Independence. 41. 41. On July 4, ______, Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. 42. 42. In the Declaration of Independence, ______wrote that people had a right to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." 43. 43. The Declaration of Independence is based on the idea that people have ______rights, which the government cannot take away. 44. 44. ______a member of the House of Burgesses called for resistance to the Stamp Act. 45. 45. The ______stated that Great Britain had the authority to govern the colonies. 46. 46. The ______were search warrants that gave British officers the authority to search colonists' homes and businesses. 47. 47. The ______staged both peaceful and violent protests against Parliament's laws in the fight for liberty in the colonies. 48. 48. ______was the first president of the United States 49. 49. ______was the second president of the United States. 50. 50. Jamestown was founded in ______.