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Questions from 5.1 p. 122-125
1. (a) By issuing the ________Proclamation of 1763__________________________, the King and
Parliament required that all future settlement by Colonists past the Appalachian Mountain
range stop. Also anyone already settled in the territory was told to leave. (b) Further angering
the Colonists in 1774, the ________Quebec Act_______________________ Act gave all of this
land to the colony of Quebec and allowed this area to create its own government.
2. What two things did the new George Grenville urge Parliament to do in order to deal with
smuggling?
(a) A type of document- a new document was the writs of assistance
These gave British officials the right to enter any location to search for any suspected smuggled goods
(b) A type of court- a new court was the Vice-Admirality courts.
Suspected smugglers were sent here to be tried instead of by a jury of their peers.
3. (a) ________propaganda______________ is the term for information that is made and spread
or published far and wide for the the purpose of influencing the opinions of others.
(b). An example of this is the catch phrase that became popular in response to the many taxes
issued by Parliament. This slogan or catch phrase is ____”No taxation without
representation”_________________ ____________________________________.
(c) This slogan was based on the ideas of this man: _______________ _________________.
4. The Colonists thought of themselves as British citizens. What three rights of citizenship did the
colonists think were violate by some of the new laws passed by Parliament?
 Homes- the right to be secure in their homes and possessions against unreasonable searches
and seizures
 Courts- the right to trial by jury of their peers

Innocence- the right to be presumed innocent until proven quilty
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5. Fill in the chart about the major Acts passed by Parliament:
Name of Act
Sugar At
Date
Definition
A continuation of an earlier tax on molasses. It actually
lowered the tax on sugar. It was an attempt to discourage
smuggling.
Stamp Act
The first direct tax on the colonists that required an
official seal be affixed to certain items to prove that the
tax has been paid. Items such as newspapers, calendars,
wills, pamphlets and even playing cards were included.
Townshend
Act
A tax of imported goods such as glass, tea, paper, and
paint.
Tea
Act
A law giving the British East India Company a virtual
monopoly in selling tea to shopkeepers in the colonies.
The goal was to sell cheaper tea in the colonies and
reduce smuggling.
Quartering
Act
1765
And
1774
An act of Parliament that required Colonists to house
soldiers in their homes. They were also required to share
food and drink with the soldiers.
Cause and Effect Relationships:
6.
The Stamp Act led to a meeting of men to the Stamp Act ____Congress___________. These
men wrote the Declaration of Rights and Grievances to Parliament who in turn repealed the
Stamp Act. But in an effort to exert their authority over the colonists, the Parliament issued the
______Declaratory ___________ Act.
7. As a result of the Stamp Act, ___Patrick____ ______Henry_______ gave a firey speech in the
Virginia House of Burgesses. Colonial Merchants signed ______non-importation ______
Agreements and Samuel Adams started a protest group known as the ______Sons___________
of _______Liberty_________.
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8.
Tea Act
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Quartering of troops
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9. Protesting British Actions: Matching
A.
B.
C.
D.
Samuel Adams
King George III
James Otis
Thomas Paine
E. George Grenville
F. Patrick Henry
G. Benjamin Franklin
H. Paul Revere
_C___ The person whose ideas led to a famous propaganda quote used by the colonists
during the time period leading up to the Revolutionary War.
__G__ Published anti-British ideas in his Philadelphia Gazette newspaper
_E___ The Prime Minister of England who encouraged new taxes to be passed against the
colonists.
__B__ The King of England in the time period prior to and during the American Revolution.
_H___ The colonial silversmith who made the famous engraving of the Boston Massacre
entitled “the Bloody Massacre on King Street”.
__A__ The person who started the protest group known as the Sons of Liberty.
__F__ The famous Virginian who protested the Stamp Tax in the Virginia House of
Burgesses.
__D___Author of a very influential propaganda pamphlet that sold 100,000 copies in the
colonies entitled Common Sense
10. Vocabulary of the Revolutionary Era:
a.
Effigies---- ______rag figures who were hung and/or burned_____________
_________________________________________________________________________________
b. Repeal----___ To cancel, To take back or to make no longer a low_________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
c. Boycott-----____________To refuse to buy in an effort to express displeasure ____
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Options for your “discussion question” or “mini- essay”. Write your ‘mini essay” in advance and type it.
Bring it ready to go on the day of the test and just staple it to the back of your test. Must be typed using
required font and format spacing (as given in LA class). If you don’t bring your discussion question/
essay pre-written AND typed, you must write it on the day of the test in-class within the time allotted
(50 minute class period)
11. Essay on Test: Using an alliteration with the letter “P” discuss the things that worked together
to lead the Colonists toward Revolution. Jot down your ideas below.
Proclamation- by issuing the Proclamation of 1763, Parliament tried to keep the
colonists out of the land they had won “fair and square” in the French and
Indian War. They couldn’t go west of the Appalachian Mountains
Payments- many taxes were issued.
Colonists didn’t have a voice in deciding the
taxes.Prior to this taxes were decided by the local colonies’ legislature (ex:
House of Burgesses. Stamp Tax, Tea Tax
Provocations-
Boston “Massacre”
After the Boston Tea Party, Boston was punished with the harsh Coercive Acts.
Quartering of Troops provokes
Propaganda- (give two specific “pieces of propaganda”
Paul Revere’s image of the Boston Massacre
“Slogan” = “No Taxation without Representation”
Pamphlet- (give one specific idea from Paine’s ideas) See primary source document Common Sense and
p. 140
100,000 copies of Paine’s pamphlets were sold in the colonies
12. What did Jesus believe about paying taxes to a government?
He taught that we should give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are
God’s
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13. Next week we will study a mini unit about the Declaration of Independence. We will use the
information on pages 141-142 in the upcoming study. There are, however, a few basic facts I’d
like you to know about the Declaration of Independence for the test:
a. The Declaration of Independence was primarily written by _______ Thomas
Jefferson__________________________.
b. The date we learned for the Declaration of Independence _______July 4th 1776_____________.
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