Chapter 5 Study Guide Outline
No Taxation without Representation
The Acts
This act lowered the tax on molasses in order to stop smuggling: __________________. A _____________________ allowed customs officer to search colonists’ homes for smuggled goods.
The Stamp Act taxed these items: _______________________
This act taxed all imported goods: __________________________
Bringing the Colonies Together
Growing Trouble
The Boston Massacre: Write a one sentence summary to describe what happened. (Be sure to state who died.)
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The Boston Massacre was used as ___________________ or harmful information to get the colonists to stand-up against the British.
The Boston Tea Party: Write a one sentence summary to describe what happened. (Be sure to know who the ships belonged to and who were the people who participated.)
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This organization began to meet again (restarted) to spread information about political ideas against the British. They urged colonists to take action. Name the group _______________________________
(Be sure to know the order of these events.)
Parliament passed the Coercive Acts after the Boston Tea Party. Describe the Coercive Acts or Intolerable (intolerable means painful and unbearable) Acts by listing them:
Organizing the Colonies
Why did the colonies organize?
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Delegates vote to take action against Great Britain
List the actions
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Battle at Lexington & Concord
British Troops march out of Boston towards Lexington
Paul Revere and William Dawes (know where they went) ________________________________________________________________
Study the map of the Battle of Lexington & Concord. Be able to identify the information found on the map. Draw the map here. (in ONLINE textbook, in the section where the visual resources are, there is the map.)
Patriot or Loyalist? Write a one sentence summary of each.
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Meeting Again
Actions of Second Continental Congress
Authorized the __________________________________
Set-up a ____________________________, with Benjamin Franklin in charge.
Formed committees to ______________________________________ and _______________________________.
Created the ______________________ with George Washington in charge.
They also sent the Olive Branch Petition to King George III. This was an attempt to ___________________________.
Declaring Independence
In Common Sense, Thomas Paine urged colonists to break away from the British.
Richard Henry Lee proposed a _________________ to make the colonies free and independent.
Writing the Declaration of Independence
__________________________________ wrote the Declaration of Independence
It was approved on _____________________. (month/day/year)
It has four sections. This first is the ___________________.
It also states that if the people are unhappy with the government, they can _________________________ it.
