APUS Chapter 5

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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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