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Road to Revolution Study Guide Updated 2024/ Real Comprehensive Questions with Complete Solutions
rebellion - ANSWER - open defiance and opposition, sometimes armed, to a person or thing in authority
propaganda - ANSWER - Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
committee of correspondence - ANSWER - colonial organization organized in 1770 to spread news of Great Britain's actions and acts throughout the colonies
Samuel adams - ANSWER - Founder of the Sons of Liberty and one of the most vocal patriots for independence; signed the Declaration of Independence
Sons of Liberty - ANSWER - A radical political organization for colonial independence which formed in 1765 after the passage of the Stamp Act. They incited riots and burned the customs houses where the stamped British paper was kept. After the repeal of the Stamp Act, many of the local chapters formed the Committees of Correspondence which continued to promote opposition to British policies towards the colonies. The Sons leaders included Samuel Adams and Paul Revere.
Tea Act - ANSWER - Law passed by parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies - undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party (1773)
East India Company - ANSWER - an English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia
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pg. 2 Boston Tea Party - ANSWER - demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor
Coercive Acts - ANSWER - This series of laws were very harsh laws that intended to make Massachusetts pay for its resistance. It also closed down the Boston Harbor until the Massachusetts colonists paid for the ruined tea. Also forced Bostonians to shelter soilders in their own homes.
Boston Port Act - ANSWER - This was one of the Coercive Acts, which shut down Boston Harbor until Boston repaid the East India Company for the lost tea.
Massachusettes act - ANSWER - This act officially banned town meetings, the former forum for political debate, from occurring more than once annually.
Administration of Justice Act - ANSWER - 1774-Allowed a soldier or official accused of a crime to be tried outside the colony in British courts (Intolerable Act)
Quartering Act - ANSWER - An act passed by the British that allowed British troops to live in the homes of the colonists
Quebec Act - ANSWER - After the French and Indian War, the English had claim the Quebec Region, a French speaking colony. Because of the cultural difference, English had a dilemma on what to do with the region, passed in 1774, allow the French Colonist to go back freely to their own customs. The colonists have the right to have access to the Catholic religion freely. Also, it extended to Quebec Region north and south into the Ohio River Valley. This act created more tension between the colonists and the British which lead to the American Revolution.
Intolerable Acts - ANSWER - A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British
Militia - ANSWER - civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army
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