Social Studies Chapter 5

The colonists paid lower taxes on molasses because of the ?

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Acts

• Proclamation of 1763

• writ of assistance

Why did parliament pass the Sugar Act?

• protect the colonists' rights

• so colonists would leave America

• start another war

• stop smuggling between colonist and french indies

What role did Samuel Adams play in colonial protests?

• organized the Sons of Liberty

• closed Boston Harbor

• did nothing

• sent letters to the colonists

How did Townsend Acts differ from the Stamp Act?

• Taxed imported goods at the point of entry.

• Taxed printed material

• liked by colonist

Women who organized groups to support the boycott of British goods.

• Sons of Liberty

• people for contraband

• Daughters of Liberty

• Liberty affair

Ships prevented from carrying food and arriving.

Town meetings banned, and

Citizens being forced to house British soldiers were are effects of what act?

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Coercive Acts

How did the Boston Massacre contribute to the repeal of the Townshend Acts?

• Britain wanted to make colonists as mad as possible

• Britain wanted a strong central government

• Britain tried to calm colonial anger

• Britain wanted to punish colonists

Why were the committees of correspondence powerful organizations?

• made up of the greatest leaders of all time

• formed by King George III

• spread political ideas and united opposition to British rule.

• made plans for war

What was the purpose of the Continental Congress?

• represent the interest of the colonist and challenge British control.

• send letters to the colonists

• close the Boston Harbor

• taxed printed material

In which battle did the Americans win their first victory over the British?

• Boston Massacre

• Saratoga

• Concord

• Trenton