Vocabulary Quiz 6

A military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency

• Militia

• Minutemen

• Confederacy

• Massacre

What treaty was signed at the end of the war? 

• Peace and Friendship Treaty

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of French and Indian War

What was the period of Salutary Neglect?

• a time in which the colonies were allowed to govern themselves if the colonies remained profitable

• a time in which the colonies were allowed to expand west if they maintained peace with American Indians

• a time in which all members of colonial governments were appointed by the king of England

• a time in which colonial governments received no support from the English government

Under the Townshend Acts, the British also started to use ____________. These allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods.

• Writs of Assistance

• Writs of Severity

• Writs of Solitude

• Writs of Magnanimity

What did the Quartering Act say?

• British Soldiers could search your house without a cause to

• Colonists had to pay a tax on thier houses

• Colonists had to allow British Soldiers to stay in their homes

• British Soldiers could seize any house they wanted

What did the Stamp Act tax?

• mail brought into America

• legal documents and newspapers

• sugar and molasses

• tea

Proclaimed that Parliament had full authority over the colonies to enact policies such as taxes.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Committees of Correspondence

• Stamp Act Congress

• Declaratory Act

The King and Parliament placed a tax on everyday items like glass, lead, paint paper, and tea. This Act was called the......

• Townshend Acts

• Import Acts

• Everyday Acts

• Colonial Acts

What happened at the Boston Tea Party?

• Sons of Liberty threw all the tea in the ocean

• Patriots sat and had tea with King George

• Native Americans threw all the tea in the ocean

• King George had a sale on tea

The Intolerable Acts were passed as punishment for what incident?

• Boston Massacre

• The Declaration of Independence

• Boston Tea Party

• First Continental Congress