Matching Chapter 06 Self-Quiz

Colonists routinely ignored the __________, streaming over the Appalachians to settle in the 1760s.

British troops shot down Crispus Attucks and four other colonists in the __________.

Militia men on alert in Massachusetts and Connecticut were referred to as __________.

Thomas Jefferson wrote the __________ with help from John Adams and Benjamin Franklin.

The English opposition party that opposed excessive royal power was known as the __________.

Between salutary neglect and the defiance of colonists, the __________ were rarely enforced during the first hundred years after Parliament passed the first of these laws.

After the Battle of Bunker Hill and taking of Forrt Ticonderoga, the Continental Congress had still not settled on independence, as the __________ makes clear.

The __________ brought together representatives from 12 of the colonies to discuss their repsonse to the Coercive Acts.

Colonists protested the __________ not just because of its tax on paper, but also because they viewed it as a new, direct tax.

In response to the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed the __________.

During the __________, colonists, dressed as Indians, protested the Tea Act by dumping 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor.

From the Stamp Act protests onward, the __________ often organized crowd actions and enforced consumer boycotts.