Ch. 5 Test Review
Complete the following questions ON A SEPARATE PIECE OF PAPER. This assignment is DUE
Tuesday September 23rd.
1. What caused the French and Indian War?
2. What was the purpose of the Albany Plan of Union?
3. Why did the Albany Plan of Union fail to be passed?
4. Why did the colonists disagree with Britain’s taxes?
5. What did the Townshend Act tax?
6. Why were the Committees of Correspondence created?
7. What was the British East India Company?
8. What FIVE demands or calls to action did the First Continental Congress make?
9. Explain the importance of “the shot heard around the world”.
10. What is the name of the play written by Mercy Otis Warren?
11. List the decisions made by the Second Continental Congress.
12. How did the Second Continental Army prepare for war against Britain?
13. List the (non-colonial) people who sided with the British and WHY they sided with the
British.
14. What did the Proclamation of 1763 prohibit?
15. Which act created a monopoly on the tea market? How did the colonists feel about this
act?
16. Define the following terms:
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Patriot, Loyalist, Minutemen, Mercenary
17. What did the Stamp Act tax?
18. Explain the purpose of the Olive Branch Petition?
19. What kind of occupation did most of the colonists have that were involved in the Boston
Massacre?
20. Put the following events in chronological order.
Intolerable Acts, Boston Tea Party, Tea Act, First Continental Congress
21. In two complete sentences, explain the importance of the Battles of Lexington and
Concord.
22. Put the following events in chronological order: (Think of cause & effect relationships
between the events to help)
Bunker Hill, Boston Massacre, Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Proclamation of 1763, Townshend
Act, Lexington and Concord, First Continental Congress, Intolerable Acts, Second
Continental Congress, Boston Tea Party