For American colonists, the postwar years following the conclusion of the Seven Year’s War could be characterized best as |
B) a time of optimism about the future |
In the 1760’s and 1770’s, most members of Parliament |
C) had little understanding or knowledge of colonial affairs |
The central issue in the Anglo-American debate over governance was |
C) Parliamentary Sovereignty |
Central to the colonists’ position in the Anglo-American debate over parliamentary powers was |
A) their strong belief in the powers of their own provincial assemblies |
The most significant consequences of the Seven Year’s War was |
B) that it left Britain with an enormous debt |
As a result of the Sugar Act the duty on molasses was |
A) reduced dramatically |
The radical American group which first emerged during the Stamp Act crisis was known as |
B) the Sons of Liberty |
The tone of the Stamp Act Congress reflected |
B) restraint and conciliation, with no mention of independence or disloyalty |
The boycott movement against the Stamp Act |
B) mobilized colonial women into action |
Which of the following states Parliament’s belief in its own sovereignty |
B) Declaratory Act |
One consequence of the Townshend Acts was |
A) the strengthening of intercolonial unity. |
The fundamental issue leading to the Boston Massacre in 1770 was the |
E) Presence of so many British troops in American cities |
Each of the following developments took place between the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party EXCEPT |
B) The Quebec Act extended the boundary of Quebec southward to the Ohio River |
The Tea Act of 1773 was passed in order to |
A) Save the East India Company |
England passed the Coercive Acts in response to |
B) The Boston Tea Party |
A major difficulty that confronted the First Continental Congress |
E) the fact that delegates from different regions were unfamiliar with one another |
The purpose of the continental "association" was to |
D) maintain a total boycott of all British imports |
The most important responsibility facing the Second Continental Congress was to |
C) organize the colonies for war |
Common Sense |
A) provided the colonists with a rationale for rationale for revolution |
During the early months of the Revolutionary War, American soldiers |
C) were overconfident about their chances of victory |
Which of the following explains why England lost the war |
C) British strategists did not understand how to fight the war |
The colonial militias |
C) maintained political control over large areas of the colonies unoccupied by British troops |
For the British, French intervention meant |
A) a change in military strategy |
Which of the following was NOT a task facing the new nation? |
D) how to fend off French attempts to control our country |
George III believed |
B) the monarch should make policies for the empire |
In the 1760’s and 1770’s, colonists viewed the political struggle with Britain in terms of |
C) good vs evil |
The English political philosopher most often cited by American rebels was |
D) John Locke |
A major source of information for the colonists was |
A) newspapers |
On the eve of the American Revolution, |
approximately 2.5 million people were living in the thirteen colonies. |
According to the commonwealth political theory, |
power is dangerous and must be countered by virtue. |
Neolin |
was the Delaware Prophet. |
The proclamation of 1763 |
prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. |
The Stamp Act of 1765 affected the lives of _________ people, as well as those of the _______. |
ordinary, elite |
The leader of the anti-Stamp Act movement in Virginia was |
Patrick Henry |
The handbill printed by Boston leaders during 1770 would most be connected to |
the Sons of Liberty |
Massachusetts reacted to the passage of the Townshend Acts with |
the Circular Letter |
The Boston Massacre |
raised the possibility of colonial armed resistance. |
The _________________ virtually led a terrorist campaign against British tax collectors during the colonial agitation over the Stamp Act. |
Sons of Liberty |
Samuel Adam’s role prior to 1774 can best be described as |
genuine revolutionary. |
The Suffolk Resolves advocated |
forcible resistance to the Coercive Acts. |
In December 1775, Parliament passed the _______________, which declared war on American international commerce. |
Prohibitory Act |
The author of the Declaration of Independence was: |
Thomas Jefferson |
The Declaration of Independence |
blamed George III for much of the impasse. |
The American victory that brought about the French alliance occurred at |
Saratoga. |
Essential to the establishment of a colonial alliance with the French was the work of |
Benjamin Franklin. |
In 1779, military strategists predicted that Britain’s last chance for victory over the colonies lay in |
a successful campaign in the American South. |
The British commander who surrendered at Yorktown in 1781 was |
Cornwallis. |
The event depicted in the cartoon shown above is most accurately described by |
public embarrassment extended to loyalist supporters of the King during the American Revolution. |
American Loyalists, who sided with the British during the War for Independence, |
came from all occupations and social classes. |
Approximately _________ Loyalists left America after the war. |
100,000 |
By 1763, |
there was much hope of compromise between the British government and the American colonists. |
After the American Revolution, |
several northern states abolished slavery. |
Committees of correspondence were initially formed |
to communicate grievances to villages throughout Massachusetts. |
Richard Howe was NOT |
an American military leader. |
The ___________________ guaranteed independence of the United States. |
Treaty of Paris of 1783 |
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