1. Chapter 5 Review

2. court document allowing customs officers to enter any location to search for smuggled goods
Writ of Assistance

3. - to refuse to buy items in order to show disapproval or force acceptance of one’s terms
Boycott

4. an official expression of opinion by a group
Resolution

5. - a mocking figure representing an unpopular individual
Effegy

6. - incoming money from taxes or other sources
Revenue

7. - an organization that spread political ideas and information through the colonies
Committee of Correspondance

8. - open defiance of authority
Rebellion

9. - to cancel an act or law
Repeal

10. ideas of information intentionally spread to harm or help a cause
Propaganda

11. voted to boycott
Continental Congress

12. storage place for arms
Concord

13. - sold military information to the British
Benedict Arnold

14. warned that the British were coming
Paul Revere

15. leader of the minutemen
Captain John Parker

16. 15. What did writs of assistance allow British customs officers to search?
Homes for smuggled goods

17. 16. What act allowed the colonists to pay lower taxes on molasses?
Sugar Act

18. 17. What act taxed colonists without their consent?
Stamp Act

19. 18. What act stated that Parliament did have the right to tax colonists?
Declaratory Act

20. 19. When Britain learned that the colonists were on the brink of rebellion in 1768, what was Parliament’s response?
Parliament sent troops to Boston

21. Paul Revere’s engraving of what event was an example of propaganda that led to more intense anti-British feelings among the colonists?
Boston Massacre

22. What act gave the East India Company an advantage over colonial merchants?
Tea Act

23. 22. What was the dramatic act of defiance that some colonists celebrated?
Boston Tea Party

24. 23. Who had orders to take away the weapons of the Massachusetts militia?
Thomas Gage

25. 24. Who, along with Paul Revere, warned Samual Adams that the British were coming?
William Dawes

26. 25. Who led the Green Mountain Boys who captured the British-held Fort Ticonderoga?
Ethan Allen

27. 26. After winning what battle did the British learn that defeating the Americans would not be easy?
Battle of Bunker Hill

28. 27. What group did the colonies organize to fight against Great Britain?
Continental Army

29. 28. Who was the first commander of the Continental Army?
George Washington

30. 29. Thomas Jefferson drew on the ideas of which English philosopher when writing the Declaration of Independence?
John Locke

31. 30. Who was the first man to sign the Declaration of Independence?
John Hancock

32. 31. Who was a victim of the Boston Massacre?
Crispus Attucks

33. 32. Who wrote a pamphlet calling for a break with British rule?
Thomas Paine

34. 33. Who was the president of the Second Continental Congress?
John Hancock

35. 34. Who was the leader of the Green Mountain Boys?
Ethan Allen

36. 35. Who organized the Sons of Liberty?
Samuel Adams

37. 36. What did the colonists call the Coercive Acts
36. What did the colonists call the Coercive Acts? Why did Britain pass these laws?
The Intolerable Acts. As punishment for the Boston Tea Party.

38. 37. Why did British troops march to Concord?
To seize and destroy all the artillery and ammunition.

39. 38. Whose ideas inspired Thomas Jefferson while writing the Declaration of Independence? What were those ideas?
John Locke. That people are born with certain natural rights to life, liberty and property.

40. 39. Why did some colonist smuggle goods?
To avoid being tax.

41. 40. Why was Common Sense by Thomas Paine significant?
It influenced colonists to want independence.