History Chapter 6 Quiz 1 Review

1. History Chapter 6 Quiz 1 Review

2. What as the crucial issue behind the War of Independence? • Stamp tax • Tea tax • An idealized view of liberty • Practical self-government

3. Practical self-government

4. What was the main purpose of the Committees of Correspondence? • To make laws for the colonies • To supervise and supply militia • To provide news on British threats to liberty • To debate resolutions on colonial rights

5. To provide news on British threats to liberty

6. What sparked the Coercive Acts? • The Gaspee incident • The Boston Massacre • The Committees of Correspondence • The Boston Tea Party

7. The Boston Tea Party

8. What was a major accomplishment of the First Continental Congress? • To appoint a commander in chief • To assert the rights of the colonies to govern themselves • To petition the king to stop the abuses of Parliament • To raise a Continental army

9. To assert the rights of the colonies to govern themselves

10. The major reason that the colonists lost the Battle of Bunker Hill was that • The militia fled during the middle of the battle • The American generals made some major blunders • The British outnumbered the Americans almost four to one • The American soldiers ran out of ammunition

11. The American soldiers ran out of ammunition

12. What action did Boston’s Patriots take in 1773 when some British ships refused to take their tea back to England?

13. The Boston Tea Party

14. What term refers to “citizen soldiers” such as the minutemen?

15. militia

16. A) Lexington and Concord • B) Patrick Henry • C) Thomas Gage • __ British general whose army occupied Boston and attacked Concord

17. C) Thomas Gage

18. A) Lexington and Concord • B) Patrick Henry • C) Thomas Gage • __ Virginian Patriot whose speeches supported the war

19. B) Patrick Henry

20. A) Lexington and Concord • B) Patrick Henry • C) Thomas Gage • __ the first engagement of the American Revolution

21. A) Lexington and Concord