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Chapter 5 Review
 

1. What did the Sugar Act do?  What was the reaction of the colonists?

 
 
 
 

2. Name four ways that colonists protested the Stamp Act.  What did the British do because of these protests?

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

3. Who defended the British soldiers who were put on trial for the Boston Massacre?  What was the result of their trial?

 
 
 
 
 

4. What did the Coercive Acts do?  What did the colonists call these laws?

 
 
 
 
 
 

5. Who represented Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia in the First Continental Congress?

 
 
 
 
 

6. Where did the Revolutionary War start?  How long before the Declaration of Independence was approved did the war start?

 
 
 
 

7. Where did Americans take British cannons that they later used to get the British out of Boston?
8. What were some of the reasons that somebody might have been a Loyalist?

 
 
 
 
 
 

9. Who was the president of the Second Continental Congress?

 
 
 

10. Name four things that the Second Continental Congress did.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

11. Who was on the committee to write the Declaration of Independence?

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

12. When did the vote for independence take place?  Which colony did not vote in favor of independence?

 
 
 

13. What happened in Congress on July 4, 1776?

 
 
 
 

14. What were the crimes of the king listed by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence?

 
 
 
 
 

15. Read the last sentence of the Declaration of Independence.  What did the signers pledge to each other?