Tindall & Shi – America – A Narrative History
Chapter 5 “From Empire to Independence”
Mrs. Laura Whisler
STUDY GUIDE
1. What was the purpose of The Royal Proclamation of 1763 and what did it provide for?
2. What was the Sugar Act and how did it effect the colonists?
3. What did The Currency Act of 1764 provide for?
4. The writings of the “Real Whigs” were inspired by ____________________________.
5. What was the reaction to the news of the repeal of the Stamp Act?
6. Of the colonists’ methods to protest the Stamp Act, probably the most effective was___________
7. What did the Declaratory Act state?
8. What were the provisions of The Townshend Acts?
9. What were the special objections of the colonists to the Revenue Act of 1767?
10. In the long run, the most important item taxed by the Townshend Acts was ___________________
11. What was the Boston Massacre, what happened and what were the results?
12. The Continental Congress met in _________________________
13. What were the results of the Coercive Acts?
14. Who participated in the boycott of British goods in colonial America?
15. Why were shots fired at Lexington and Concord?
16. What was the outcome of the Battle of Bunker Hill?
17. The Declaration of Independence based its argument for freedom of the colonies primarily on
whose theories, - who was the primary author, - when was it signed?
18. What English major problem was George Grenville’s policies supposed to alleviate?
19. Who was involved at the trial of the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre and what
was the conclusion?
20. What was the Boston Tea Party and what were its consequences?
21. What did the Quebec Act of 1774 provide for?
22. What was the concept of Virtual and Actual representation?
23. In the colonies the Coercive Acts were called the ___________________________________
24. What were Writs of Assistance?
25. The German mercenaries hired to fight the American rebels were known as ______________.
26. T / F The Quartering Act required the colonies to provide provisions and barracks
For British soldiers.
27. T / F The Townshend duties brought in more revenue than the Stamp Act.
28. T / F George Washington led the colonial militias at Lexington & Concord.
29. T / F The Sugar Act affected more Americans than the Stamp Act and therefore generated
more protest.
MATCHING
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Massachusetts govenor
Named commander-in-chief of Continental Army
Proposed Stamp Act
Led Green Mountain Boys
Wrote Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer
“well gentlemen…we must now hang together, or we shall
most assuredly hang separately
7. Introduced independence resolution
8. Was killed at Boston Massacre
9. Organized Sons of Liberty
10. Wrote Common Sense
A
B
C
D
E
F
Samuel Adams
Ethan Allen
Crispus Attucks
John Dickinson
Benjamin Franklin
George Grenville
G
H
I
J
Thomas Hutchinson
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Paine
George Washington