Chapter 6 Questions
DIRECTIONS: Using your book answer the following questions.
Section One:
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Which act taxed legal documents?
Which act required colonists to pay for housing British soldiers?
Which act forbade colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains?
Why did Colonists object to the Stamp Act?
Section Two:
5. Who was the man who organized the Sons of Liberty?
6. Who was the lawyer who defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre?
7. Which of the following acts taxed glass, paper, silk, lead, and tea?
8. What role did the Sons of Liberty play in the fight for liberty in the colonies?
9. Samuel Adams was probably responsible for which protest to the Townshend Acts?
Section Three:
10. Who became famous for spreading news of the British troops’ movements?
11. He was famous for saying “Give me liberty or give me death!”
12. What demonstration was a protest by the Sons of Liberty against the Tea Act?
13. What were the Intolerable Acts?
14. Why did British troops march from Boston into the countryside in April 1775?
Section Four:
15. Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?
16. Who was the general of the Continental Army?
17. Why did the committee appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence choose Thomas
Jefferson to write the document?
18. In 1775, Americans tried to patch up their quarrel with Great Britain by issuing which
document?
19. According to the Declaration of Independence, everyone is entitled to which three rights?
20. Why did Thomas Paine publish his pamphlet, Common Sense?
21. Which document begins, “When in the course of human events…”?