<p>Name______Per.______</p><p>Chapter 5 Test-Study Guide</p><p>1. Who was Pontiac?</p><p>Leader of the Ottawa nation</p><p>2. What was the Quartering Act?</p><p>Required colonists to feed and house British troops</p><p>3. What was Committees of Correspondence?</p><p>Committees of Patriots were set up in various colonies to spread information about British actions.</p><p>4. What started the French and Indian War?</p><p>British settlers pushed west into French and Native American lands in the Ohio River Valley.</p><p>5. Who had the upper hand at the beginning of the French and Indian War?</p><p>The French/Indians=The British suffered several defeats</p><p>6. What caused the tide to turn in favor of the British during the French and Indian War?</p><p>New and better British leadership (William Pitt) 7. What event was the key to the French defeat during the French and Indian War?</p><p>The British attack on Quebec</p><p>8. What was Pontiac’s War?</p><p>The leader of the Ottawa nation helped start an all-out attack on the British.</p><p>9. Why did colonists resent the Stamp Act?</p><p>They did not think Britain should have the right to tax them.</p><p>10. What did the 1767 Townshend Acts specify that was meant to not upset the colonists?</p><p>That Britain would tax only imports into the colonies</p><p>11. Who were the Sons (and Daughters) of Liberty?</p><p>Colonial anti-British protestors</p><p>12. What were some of the demands of the First Continental Congress?</p><p>The repeal of the Intolerable Acts, training of militias, more boycotts of British goods</p><p>13. What was “the shot heard ‘round the world”?</p><p>The first shot of the American Revolution 14. The formation of the Continental Army was a result of what meeting?</p><p>The Second Continental Congress</p><p>15. Why did many enslaved African Americans side with the British?</p><p>They hoped to win their freedom.</p><p>16. What did the Olive Branch Petition state?</p><p>That the colonists remained loyal to the king</p><p>17. What was the purpose of the Albany Plan of Union?</p><p>Provide a way for the English colonies to work together</p><p>18. What did the Proclamation of 1763 declare?</p><p>Colonial settlers had to remain east of the Appalachians</p><p>19. Why did colonists resent the Tea Act?</p><p>It established a British monopoly on tea</p><p>20. What did the Stamp Act require colonists to do?</p><p>Required colonists to buy stamps to put on legal documents 21. Which side fired the first shot of the American Revolution?</p><p>Nobody knows</p><p>22. At what gathering was George Washington chosen as commander of the Continental Army?</p><p>The Second Continental Congress</p><p>23. What did the Second Continental Congress do in preparation for war?</p><p>Forming an army</p><p>24. What is a blockade?</p><p>The shutting off of a port by ships to keep people or supplies from moving in or out</p><p>25. What is a boycott?</p><p>An organized campaign to refuse to buy certain products</p><p>26. What is a militia?</p><p>Military force made up of civilians trained as soldiers</p><p>27. Who were the minutemen?</p><p>Citizen soldiers who could be ready to fight at a minute’s notice. Add-Alliance and Monopoly onto your words to know list.</p>