US History 5th Grade Chapter 5

Great Britain repealed the Stamp Act and most of the Townshend Act, but left what tax in place that became a cause for more tension?

• A tax on tea

• A tax on wool

• A tax on sugar

• A tax on lumber

Which event caused the Sons of Liberty to organize protests in Boston?

  

• The passage of the Sugar Act

• The repeal of the Stamp Act

• The repeal of the Townshend Acts

• The passage of the Townshend Acts

The Boston Tea Party was a protest against the Tea Act. What was a main reason the colonists were angry about the Tea Act?

• The Tea Act banned the drinking of tea in the colonies.

• The Tea Act forced them to grow tea for export to other British colonies.

• The Tea Act forced them to buy all of their tea from a single British company.

• The Tea Act forced them to serve tea to British soldiers any time the soldiers wanted it.

Which statement best completes the diagram?

• Great Britain needs money to build a larger navy.

• Great Britain is in debt because of the French and Indian War.

• Great Britain needs to import more paper goods from the colonies.

• Great Britain wants to cover expenses of shipping goods to the colonies.

Why did the British send warships and troops to Boston Harbor in 1768?

• To force colonists to buy more British goods

• To subdue an American Indian revolt

• To deliver cargoes of enslaved Africans

• To limit colonists’ protests against British taxes

 

“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

Who made this statement? What did he mean?

      

• John Adams; he was afraid he would not live long enough to see the success of the Patriots.

• Nathan Hale; he believed in the Patriot cause enough to give his life for it over and over.

• Samuel Adams; he meant that living under the Intolerable Acts was worse than death.

• Patrick Henry; he preferred death to living under British rule.

This illustration shares a common theme with which literary work?

• Common Sense, by Thomas Paine

• The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• “Paul Revere’s Ride,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” by Phillis Wheatley

 

The laws are unfair. Parliament had no right to pass the Intolerable Acts.

Which of the following helped to form the Committees of Correspondence and might have made this statement about the Intolerable Acts?

• Thomas Hutchinson

• Samuel Adams

• Patrick Henry

• Paul Revere

Which events correctly complete the sequence by date?

• Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party

• Paul Revere’s Ride, Boston Tea Party

• First Continental Congress, Boston Tea Party

• Boston Tea Party, Battles of Lexington and Concord

George Washington’s army endured a harsh winter at Valley Forge. Why did he take his army there?

• The British captured Philadelphia, forcing him to retreat to Valley Forge.

• He planned to lure the British into a trap and defeat them at Valley Forge.

• The Cherokee were in Valley Forge and planned to ally themselves with Washington.

• Washington planned to capture the army of British General Howe as they were encamped at Valley Forge.