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Study Questions

1. In March 5, 1770, British troops fired on a crowd of colonists in an incident known as what?
The Boston Massacre

2. What permitted British officers to enter homes and businesses to search for smuggled goods?

Writs of Assistance

3. Who was the escaped slave that was among the colonists killed in the Boston Massacre?
Crispus Attucks

4. What organizations were formed to exchange information about colonial affairs and resistance to
British policy?
Committees of Correspondence

5. Why did the attorney John Adams agree to defend the soldiers that were accused of murder in the Boston Massacre?
He believed everyone- including British soldiers- were entitled to a fair trial

6. Name two organizations that were formed to protest the actions of the British.
Daughters of liberty & Sons of liberty

7. Name three ways that colonists protested the tax on tea.
The Boston Tea Party, drank smuggled tea, let tea rot on the docks, blocked tea ships from entering ports

8. The Tea Act of 1773 gave the East India Company what?
Exclusive right to sell tea in the colonies

9. As a result of the Boston Massacre anti-British propaganda appeared where?

Newspapers, pamphlets and political posters throughout the colonies

10. What is a duty?

Taxes on imports

11. Who was the leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty?

Samuel Adams

12. Who was the commander of all British troops in Boston?

General Thomas Gage

13. How many additional troops were sent to the colonies?

1,000 additional troops were sent to Boston

14. What goods were taxed as part of the Townshend Acts?

Paint, lead, glass, paper and tea

15. Colonists drank smuggled tea from where?
Holland

16. Who was Charles Townshend and why did he propose a new series of taxes on imports?

Britain’s finance minister, with the Stamp Act repealed, Britain still needed to raise money in the colonies to pay for troops and other expenses


17. Who was John Dickinson and why was he important?
A Pennsylvania lawyer who thought the Townshend Acts were illegal and then wrote a pamphlet in protest

18. Explain the Declaratory Act.
The act affirmed Parliament’s right to legislate for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever.” It did not however, create any new tax; it was simply to reassert Parliament’s control over all colonial affairs

19. How did colonists respond the Declaratory Act?
The colonists did not feel threatened by the new act. Some politicians did protest the new law in colonial assemblies. Most people were not bothered by the act and simply ignored the act and went on with their daily lives

20. What was the result of the second boycott on British goods?
Similar to the Stamp Act, Parliament repealed the Townshend Acts because British trade had been hurt and Parliament had backed down. Parliament did however keep the tax on tea to show that it still had the right to tax the colonists