Chapter 6 : The Road to Revolution
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Section one : Tighter British control, pg. 157
1.
What was the purpose of the Proclamation of 1763?
Draw a mini map to show the Proclamation.
2. Who was King George the III? What page is his picture
found?
3. How did the king enforce the Proclamation of 1763?
4. Parliament helped defray the cost of the troops in the
English colonies by passing a new law. What was the
name of the new law?
Which amendment to the constitution addresses this law?
(page page 287)
5. What is the name of the two acts that were passed in 1765 and 1766?
Why were these new Acts passed by Parliament?
6. Why were the colonies upset with the aforementioned acts?
7. What famous quote did the people begin to say?
8. Who said, “If this be treason, make the most of it!”?
9. What non violent action did the colonist take to protest the Stamp Act?
Section 2: Colonial Resistance Grows (Page 161)
10. Why is Crispus Attucks famous?
11. Was the Boston Massacre really a massacre?
12. What was the purpose of the Declaratory Act?
13. Read the chapter
14. What products did the Townshend Acts tax?
15. Define duties
16. Define Writes of Assistance.
17. How did the Daughters of Liberty support the cause of Liberty?
18. What organization did Sam Adams lead?
19. What did John Adams do for the soldiers accused of murder?
20. What was the purpose of the Tea Act?
21. Define the Committees of Correspondence.
22. What prompted the Boston Tea party?
23. Why did colonist oppose the Townshend Acts?
Section Three : The Road to Lexington and Concord Page 169
24. Why did Britain pass the intolerable acts?
25. What did the colonist do to prepare for war?
26. Why did Gage march is troops to the country side?
27. Did the troops take the water route or the land route?
28. Define the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
29. Define Loyalist
Who won?
and Patriot.
Section 4 : Declaring Independence page 177
30. Who surrounded Boston?
31. Where did the cannons come from?
32. What was the name of the American army? Who was its leader?
33. Who won the battle of Bunker Hill?
34. Define the Olive Branch petition.
Did it work?
35. Who wrote Common Sense?
36. What is the main point of Common Sense?
37. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
38. When was the D of I adopted?
39.
Be able to write the following from memory (page 184) We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure
these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,