Unit 3 – Terms and Concepts
Chapter 5
Chapter 5 – The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to
Popular Revolt, 1763-1783
*Be able to answer the following questions and/or fully
explain the significance of the terms and concepts.
This list is for quiz preparation only. An updated list will be
posted prior to the Unit 3 Test.
Why did Americans resist parliamentary taxation?
1. What were the characteristics of the American
population on the eve of independence?
2. George III
3. Whigs
4. parliamentary sovereignty
5. virtual representation
6. John Locke
7. Two Treatises of Government
8. natural rights
9. life, liberty, and property
10. public virtue (aka civic virtue)
11. Colonial newspapers and pamphlets
What events eroded the bonds of empire during the 1760s?
12. salutary neglect
13. Delaware Prophet
14. Pontiac’s Rebellion
15. Paxton Boys
16. Proclamation of 1763
17. George Grenville
18. Sugar Act of 1764 (aka Revenue Act)
19. James Otis
20. Stamp Act of 1765
21. Sons of Liberty
22. Stamp Act Congress
23. Patrick Henry
24. Virginia Resolves
25. Stamp Act Congress
26. boycotts
27. Declaratory Act, 1766
28. George Mason
29. Townshend Revenue Acts, 1767
30. Quartering Act, 1765
31. Massachusetts Circular Letter, 1768
32. Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770
33. Joseph Warren
34. Paul Revere
35. Sam Adams
36. Committees of Correspondence
37. Tea Act
38. East India Company
39. Boston Tea Party, 1773
40. Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)
41. Quebec Act
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What events in 1775 and 1776 led to the colonists’ decision
to declare independence?
42. First Continental Congress
43. John Adams
44. Suffolk Resolves
45. The Association
46. Lexington and Concord, 1775
47. Minutemen
48. Battle of Bunker Hill
49. Second Continental Congress
50. George Washington and the Continental Army
51. Prohibitory Act, 1775
52. German mercenaries (aka Hessians)
53. Thomas Paine
54. Common Sense
55. Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence
Why did it take eight years of warfare for the Americans to
gain independence?
56. patriots vs. loyalists
57. advantages and disadvantages in the war
58. Thomas Paine’s American Crisis
59. Battle of Saratoga
60. Franco-American Alliance
61. Yorktown
62. Lord Cornwallis
Why did so many Loyalists decide to leave the United States
during the Revolution?
How did Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay
secure a better peace treaty than Congress could have
expected?
63. Paris Peace Treaty, 1783