Review-Chapter 5 The American Revolution

to give food and and shelter to others

• repeal

• mercenary

• quarter

• tariff

to cancel

• quarter

• tariff

• effigy

• repeal

The agreement that formally ended the Revolutionary War

• Treaty of Paris

• martial law

• morale

• independence

freedom from rule by others

• repeal

• tariff

• independence

• mercenary

soldiers who are paid to fight for another country

• mercenary

• alliance

• enlist

• morale

Why were the colonist angry about the Stamp Act?

• it taxed their land

• taxed goods colonist produced

• unfair because colonist had no representation in Parliament

• only the middle class had to pay the tax

Why did Great Britain repeal the Stamp Act?

• Great Britain paid off their debt from the war

• Native Americans were revolting

• colonists were boycotting British goods

• Colonists finally had a say in Parliament and they voted against it.

Which set of laws replaced the Stamp Act?

• Declaration of Independence

• Townshend Acts

• Tea Act

• First Continental Congress

What was the Boston Tea Party?

• Celebrating the arrival of new colonists from Britain

• celebration of repeal of the Tea Act

• Native Americans destroying British Ships filled with tea

• Colonists throwing cargo chests of tea into the sea off of British ships

What law was passed in response to the Boston Tea Party?

• Townshend Acts

• Common Sense

• Tea Act

• The Intolerable Acts