middle school History Questions...?

Question

1.Why did the British raid Concord?


2.Which important figure was described by one English historian as "stupid, really stupid....a clod of a boy who no one could teach."


3.How did Lord North punish Bostonians after the Boston Tea Party?


4.What did the British Quartering Act require of the colonists?


5. How did the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson describe the first bullet fired at Lexington?

Answer 1

1.) On the 15 of April 1775, when General Thomas Gage, British Military Governor of Massachusetts, was ordered to destroy the rebel's military stores at Concord.

2.) In some ways King George III can be described as the best of the bunch. He was very stupid, really stupid. Had he been born in different circumstances it is unlikely that he could have earned a living except as an unskilled manual laborer. He was eleven before he could read, and he never mastered grammar or spelling or punctuation. He was lethargic, apathetic, childish, a clod of a boy whom no one could teach.

3.) When the news of the Boston Tea Party reached Britain, an outraged Parliament demanded compensation for the tea. After the colonists refused, Parliament passed a series of laws to punish Boston and to make British control over Massachusetts more effective. Known as the Intolerable Acts, the laws closed the port of Boston to trade; curtailed the powers of the Massachusetts assembly and local town meetings; provided for the housing of troops in private houses; and exempted British officials from trial in Massachusetts. These acts further alienated the American colonists and hastened the start of the American Revolution.

4.) The Quartering Act was extended to require private individuals to lodge soldiers. Furthermore, Parliament allowed royal officials accused of crimes to be tried by a British, rather than a colonial, jury.

5.) Ralph Waldo Emerson, a famous poet, called the Battle of Lexington "the shot heard 'round the world," because this battle began the Revolutionary War. His poem is on a monument by Concord's North Bridge.

Answer 2

There was a powder magazine (storehouse) at Concord and the British wanted to capture it, or at least the gunpowder that was in it.

I have no idea who they were talking about here, but I'd guess it might be George III, a likeable enough fellow, faithful husband (and prolific--he and his wife had the largest family in the history of the British monarchy), and very interested in agriculture. He also suffered a form of insanity that is believed to have had its basis in physical rather than mental pathology, a liver disease known as poryphyria.

I suspect that Lord North closed the port of Boston--a real downer for the Bostonians, since their main livelihood was shipping.

The Quartering Act--oh, boy, was THIS a bone of contention! What it meant was that colonists had to give free room and board to British troops. Some (not all, but some) of these guys were the kinds of people you really wouldn't have invited into your home, and here they were, being forced on you. It was so obnoxious that the Bill of Rights referred to it in the Third Amendment. To the best of my knowledge, troops have never been involuntarily housed in civilian homes--even during the Civil War. Officers might have comandeered homes for their headquarters, but the average soldier still slept in a tent outside, normally.

Emerson referred to the first volley at Lexington as "The shot heard round the world." As a child, I took it literally, even as the logical part of me insisted that a shot fired in New England could not possibly have been physically heard in, say, Germany. It wasn't till I got older and learned about metaphors and hyperbole that I really got what Emerson was talking about.

Now--I'd suggest that you go back to your textbook and read the sections from which these five questions were taken. When I was in middle school (only this was in the mists of antiquity--we even had to watch TV by candle light--and it was called junior high school), I used this as a shortcut many tines--scan the chapter headings and read the sections that answereed the questions, then put the answers into my own words. I learned a lot that way, and it helped me hugely in both high school and college. Read the material first; then, if you're having a tough time understanding it and answering the questions, come on Answers. If you come here first, you're cheating yourself--and besides, how can you be certain you're getting the right information? :-)

Answer 3

1. To disarm the colonists at both Lexington and Concord.
2. Don't recognize that quote.
3. The Intolerable Acts were passed by Parliament
4. They had to keep and feed soldiers of the Crown without repayment for the expenses.
5. The Shot Heard 'Round the World.

Answer 4

1. They wanted Concord grapes

2. Franklin--the fellow tested the power of lightning by himself!

3. They threw out all the tea! Bad Bostonians!

4. The colonists were required to give the British a quarter--slots addicts are terrible.

5. It was a premature ejaculation.

Answer 5

1-think about it-concord had all the weapons. even i know that without my history book
2-we didn't study that
3-he made the intolerable acts-look it up in your glossary or something-and it wasn't lord north-it was the king of england, so you got a jacked-up worksheet or wherever these questions are from
4-to house soldiers
5-i don't know-we didn't do that either

Answer 6

The only one that I can really remember is #5. He discribed it as the shot heard around the world.

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Answer 8

#5 - The shot heard around the world?

Answer 9

4) it required the people to house or "put up" the british soldiers and they couldn't refuse

Answer 10

2) George III