Chapter 5 Study Guide Outline No Taxation without Representation

The Acts

This act lowered the tax on molasses in order to stop smuggling: . A allowed customs officer to search colonists’ homes for smuggled goods.

The Stamp Act taxed these items:

This act taxed all imported goods:

Bringing the Colonies Together

Growing Trouble

The Boston Massacre: Write a one sentence summary to describe what happened. (Be sure to state who died.)



The Boston Massacre was used as or harmful information to get the colonists to stand-up against the British.

The Boston Tea Party: Write a one sentence summary to describe what happened. (Be sure to know who the ships belonged to and who were the people who participated.)



This organization began to meet again (restarted) to spread information about political ideas against the British. They urged colonists to take action. Name the group

(Be sure to know the order of these events.)

Parliament passed the Coercive Acts after the Boston Tea Party. Describe the Coercive Acts or Intolerable (intolerable means painful and unbearable) Acts by listing them:

Organizing the Colonies

Why did the colonies organize?





Delegates vote to take action against Great Britain

List the actions

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Battle at Lexington & Concord

British Troops march out of Boston towards Lexington

Paul Revere and William Dawes (know where they went)

Study the map of the Battle of Lexington & Concord. Be able to identify the information found on the map. Draw the map here. (in ONLINE textbook, in the section where the visual resources are, there is the map.)

Patriot or Loyalist? Write a one sentence summary of each.



Meeting Again

Actions of Second Continental Congress

Authorized the

Set-up a , with Benjamin Franklin in charge.

Formed committees to and .

Created the with George Washington in charge.

They also sent the Olive Branch Petition to King George III. This was an attempt to .

Declaring Independence

In Common Sense, Thomas Paine urged colonists to break away from the British.

Richard Henry Lee proposed a to make the colonies free and independent.

Writing the Declaration of Independence

wrote the Declaration of Independence

It was approved on . (month/day/year)

It has four sections. This first is the .

It also states that if the people are unhappy with the government, they can it.