AMERICAN YAWP CHAPTER 5 EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026
Patriot Whigs - Answers Based their imperial vision on trade and manufacturing instead of land and
resources. They said that the colonies should have equal status to Britain. Thought economic growth
would solve the national debt.
James Otis - Answers He wrote that colonists should have the same rights as those in Britain, and
sometimes even more.
Colonial assemblies - Answers After each colony was settled, assemblies were created and acted like
the House of Commons in Britain. They taxed residents, managed the spending of the colony's
revenue, and granted salaries to royal officers. Colonists liked the assemblies and wanted Britain to
recognize them. Britain did not like them.
John Locke - Answers He had a great influence on colonial thinking, saying that people were
influenced by their environments. He also said that the aristocracy were wealthy or successful
because they had greater access to wealth, education, and patronage and not because they were
innately superior. Because of this he pressed the importance of education.
First Great Awakening - Answers A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American
colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s. This, combined with the enlightenment and deist theory
placed a focus on the importance of the individual.
George Whitefield - Answers Traveling Calvinist preacher. Gave emotional sermons and said that
salvation came from taking responsibility of your relationship with God,. Advocated a "conversion"
experience. Also argued that too many ministers had never had this "conversion," and that this stood
between the individual and God.
Sugar Act - Answers Sought to stop widespread smuggling of molasses in New England by cutting the
duty in half but increasing enforcement. Smugglers would be tried in vice-admiralty courts.
Currency Act - Answers Parliament restricted colonies from producing paper money, which made it
hard as they didn't have many gold or silver coins there, and they were going through a postwar
recession.
Stamp Act - Answers Parliament required that documents be printed on paper to show that duty had
been paid. This was the first direct tax by parliament. Because this affected many people it lead to
more colonial resistance.
Internal vs external taxes - Answers Internal taxes are directly placed by Parliament, while an external
tax is the colonies contributing to the empire with something like customs duties.
Virginia Resolves - Answers An anti-Stamp Act resolution passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses
that said the colonies were entitled to all the rights of those in Britain. When these resolves were
passed around changes were made to them, like only the colonial assemblies have a right to tax the
colonies, and this made people more radical.
Patrick Henry - Answers There was Patrick Henry.
Stamp Act Congress - Answers A meeting where nine colonies sent delegates, and it said that
allegiance was declared to the king, but also said that Americans have the same rights as those in
Britain, and the only ones with the right to tax America, are those in their own elected assemblies.
Virtual representation - Answers Parliament and Ministry said that the colonies were virtually
represented, just like those in Britain, which the colonists did not believe in.
Non-importation agreements - Answers In response to the Stamp Act, merchants in colonial ports
refused to import British goods, hoping that it would make British merchants lobby for the repeal of
the Stamp Act, which they eventually did.
Sons of Liberty - Answers Groups that directed and organized popular resistance in the colonies
against the Stamp Act.
Declaratory Act - Answers After repealing the Stamp Act, Britain said they had the full authority to
make laws that bind people in the Americas.
Townshend Acts - Answers This created customs duties on lead, glass, paint, and tea. It also created
formal mechanisms to enforce compliance. Revenues from customs seizures would go to customs
officers and other royal officers, so that they would want to enforce it.
Vice Admirality Courts - Answers The Townshend Acts created them to try smugglers.
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer - Answers John Dickinson wrote in this that it was ok to pay
duties for the regulation of trade, but when America only is asked to pay duties for revenue to Britain,
that is not right.
Patriot Whigs - Answers Based their imperial vision on trade and manufacturing instead of land and
resources. They said that the colonies should have equal status to Britain. Thought economic growth
would solve the national debt.
James Otis - Answers He wrote that colonists should have the same rights as those in Britain, and
sometimes even more.
Colonial assemblies - Answers After each colony was settled, assemblies were created and acted like
the House of Commons in Britain. They taxed residents, managed the spending of the colony's
revenue, and granted salaries to royal officers. Colonists liked the assemblies and wanted Britain to
recognize them. Britain did not like them.
John Locke - Answers He had a great influence on colonial thinking, saying that people were
influenced by their environments. He also said that the aristocracy were wealthy or successful
because they had greater access to wealth, education, and patronage and not because they were
innately superior. Because of this he pressed the importance of education.
First Great Awakening - Answers A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American
colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s. This, combined with the enlightenment and deist theory
placed a focus on the importance of the individual.
George Whitefield - Answers Traveling Calvinist preacher. Gave emotional sermons and said that
salvation came from taking responsibility of your relationship with God,. Advocated a "conversion"
experience. Also argued that too many ministers had never had this "conversion," and that this stood
between the individual and God.
Sugar Act - Answers Sought to stop widespread smuggling of molasses in New England by cutting the
duty in half but increasing enforcement. Smugglers would be tried in vice-admiralty courts.
Currency Act - Answers Parliament restricted colonies from producing paper money, which made it
hard as they didn't have many gold or silver coins there, and they were going through a postwar
recession.
Stamp Act - Answers Parliament required that documents be printed on paper to show that duty had
been paid. This was the first direct tax by parliament. Because this affected many people it lead to
more colonial resistance.
Internal vs external taxes - Answers Internal taxes are directly placed by Parliament, while an external
tax is the colonies contributing to the empire with something like customs duties.
Virginia Resolves - Answers An anti-Stamp Act resolution passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses
that said the colonies were entitled to all the rights of those in Britain. When these resolves were
passed around changes were made to them, like only the colonial assemblies have a right to tax the
colonies, and this made people more radical.
Patrick Henry - Answers There was Patrick Henry.
Stamp Act Congress - Answers A meeting where nine colonies sent delegates, and it said that
allegiance was declared to the king, but also said that Americans have the same rights as those in
Britain, and the only ones with the right to tax America, are those in their own elected assemblies.
Virtual representation - Answers Parliament and Ministry said that the colonies were virtually
represented, just like those in Britain, which the colonists did not believe in.
Non-importation agreements - Answers In response to the Stamp Act, merchants in colonial ports
refused to import British goods, hoping that it would make British merchants lobby for the repeal of
the Stamp Act, which they eventually did.
Sons of Liberty - Answers Groups that directed and organized popular resistance in the colonies
against the Stamp Act.
Declaratory Act - Answers After repealing the Stamp Act, Britain said they had the full authority to
make laws that bind people in the Americas.
Townshend Acts - Answers This created customs duties on lead, glass, paint, and tea. It also created
formal mechanisms to enforce compliance. Revenues from customs seizures would go to customs
officers and other royal officers, so that they would want to enforce it.
Vice Admirality Courts - Answers The Townshend Acts created them to try smugglers.
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer - Answers John Dickinson wrote in this that it was ok to pay
duties for the regulation of trade, but when America only is asked to pay duties for revenue to Britain,
that is not right.
