Unit 2: Questioning Authority

Why did Great Britain pass the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, and the Townshend Acts?

• To pay for keeping an army in North America

• To punish colonists who participated in the Boston Tea Party

• To pay for new roads and canals across North America

• To punish colonists for supporting the French during the French and Indian War

What was the Boston Massacre?

• The violent seizure of colonists to serve in the British army and navy

• The execution of British soldiers for their part in the deaths of 5 colonists

• An attack on colonists by British soldiers to punish them for boycotting British goods

• An incident where colonists clashed with British soldiers and 5 colonists died as a result

What was the Tea Act?

• It forced colonists to buy British tea instead of less-expensive colonial tea

• It limited how much tea each colonists could purchase from the British East India Company

• It placed a tax on tea so that colonists had to pay higher prices for tea bought from colonial merchants

• It allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to colonists instead of to colonial merchants

Why did Parliament pass the Coercive (or Intolerable) Acts?

• To punish Boston for the Boston Massacre

• To force colonists to pass their own laws

• To punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party

• To force colonists to buy their own tea

What was the goal of the First Continental Congress?

• To ask King George III to correct problems with the colonies

• To declare independence from King George III and Great Britain

• To petition Parliament to repeal the Coercive (or Intolerable) Acts

• To draft laws in Philadelphia to govern the colonies independently

What did the Second Continental Congress accomplish when it met in May of 1775?

• It formed the Articles of Confederation.

• It wrote the Constitution of the United States.

• It petitioned King George III again and created the Continental Army

• It created a federal constitution and requested funds from Great Britain

What was the main effect of Thomas Paine’s pamphlet, Common Sense?

• It persuaded many colonists to support independence from Great Britain

• It listed ways that the colonies would be better off remaining British subjects

• It described ways that only Parliament had abused its power in governing the colonies

• It persuaded many soldiers in the Continental army to stay until the Revolution ended

What group was not acknowledged as "equal" in the Declaration of Independence?

• Non-land owning men

• Women

• Wealthy men

• Wealthy men

Why did many American colonists object to paying new taxes imposed following the French and Indian War?

• They felt that only landowners and merchants should pay taxes

• They were unable to afford the added costs related to these taxes

• They felt that only the Sons of Liberty should be able to pass taxes

• They were unable to vote for representatives who passed these taxes

The patriots who dressed as Indians and dumped tea into the Boston Harbor were the

• Daughters of the Revolution

• Green Mountain Boys

• Sons of Liberty

• Sons of the Revolution