chapter 5 road to independence

How did Britain increase control of the colonies?

• took away land

• it forced colonies to join the army

• required colonist to pay taxes

• forced colonist to join the government

Why did the colonies name the event in March 5th 1770 the Boston Massacre?

• create trouble for the colonies

• warn of a deadly disease in the city

• create anti-British sentiment

• describe the truth of what happened

How did Parliament respond to the colonist protests against the Stamp Act?

• they stopped selling stamps in the colonies

• they arrested those who complained about the Stamp Act

• increased the tax on paper

• repealed the Stamp Act

How did the colonists react to the Townshend Acts?

• They stopped buying imported British goods to avoid paying taxes on them

• They sent representatives to Britain to demonstrated in front of Parliament

• They refused to allow British troops to stay in their homes

• They refused to vote in British elections until they repealed the hated acts

Which of the following did the colonists consider an act of tyranny?

• Proclamation of 1763

• The Boston Tea Party

• French and Indian War

• The FIrst Continental Congress

Which of the following best describes how the colonists viewed themselves in 1774?

• they saw themselves as united Americans

• They saw themselves as citizens of their individual colonies

• they saw themselves as dependent of the English king

• they saw themselves as united under the British government

How did the British Parliament react to the Boston Tea Party?

• It finally allowed the colonists to sent their own representatives to Parliament

• It passed a series of harsh laws to punish and prove Britain's authority over the colonies

• they declared war against the colonies and sent warships to America

• they declared the colonies a failure and sent loyalist back to Britain

boycott means

• unjust use of government powr

• to refuse to buy goods from a certain source

• to take back or cancel

• a small army of ordinary citizens who are trained to fight in an emergency

militia

• colonist who felt deep loyalty to Great Britain

• the unjust use of government power

• to take back or canel

• a small army of ordinary citizens trains to fight in an emergence

loyalist

• to refuse of buy goods from a certain source

• the unjust use of government power

• colonists who believed colonists have the right to govern themselves and want independence from Britain

• colonists who felt deep loyalty to Britain