Exam 5: Reform, resistance, revolution

What was the purpose of the Stamp Act?

George Washington was named commander of the Continental Army at the urging of

The 1733 Molasses Act was successful in keeping French molasses out of the British colonies in North America.

Sir ____________________,British commander in the colonies,requested the Quartering Act in 1765.

IDENTIFICATIONS -John Dickinson

A skilled laborer who works with his or her hands is a(n)____________________.

George Washington was appalled at his soldiers' poor discipline and their casual familiarity with their officers.

The Boston slave whose poetry deplored the institution of slavery was ____________________.

The Sugar Act and the Stamp Act required that all duties be paid in ____________________.

An act,passed after the failure of the Stamp Act that affirmed Parliament's sovereignty over the colonies was the ____________________ Act.

The greatest revenues to come in from the Sugar Act were expected to be from the tax on

The Tea Act (1773)

Describe the response of the colonists to the British policy from 1763 to 1773.

In 1776 the Cherokees attacked colonists in

"The Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms" was written mostly by ____________________.

The Proclamation of 1763

The 2ⁿᵈ Continental Congress had unanimous support for the Declaration of Independence.

____________________ were royal courts to handle the disposition of enemy ships captured in time of war.

____________________ colonies sent delegates to the Stamp Act Congress.

The British government measure that established French civil law and the Roman Catholic Church in the province of Quebec was known as the