APUSH 7 & 8

Change in colonial policy by the British government that helped participate the American Revolution involved

compelling the American colonists to shoulder some of the financial costs of the empire

When it came to the revolution, it could be said that the American colonists were

reluctant revolutionaries

In a broad sense, American was

a revolutionary force from the day of its discovery by Europeans

Mercantilists believed that

A country’s economic wealth could be measured by the amount of gold and silver in its treasury

Under mercantilist doctrine, the American colonies were expected to do all of the following except

become economically eslf sufficient as soon as possible

The British Parliament enacted currency legislation that was intended primarily to benefit

British merchants

Under the mercantilist system, the British government reserved the right to do all of the following regarding the American colonies except

prevent the colonies from developing militias

Before 1763 the Navigation Laws

Were only loosely enforced in the American colonies

A new relationship between Britain and its American colonies was initiated in 1763 when ____ assumed charge of colonial policy

George Grenville

Match each act below with the correct description
a: Sugar Act
b: stamp act
c: declaratory Act
1. first British law intended to raise revenues in the colonies
2. asserted Parliament’s absolute power over the colonies
3. Required colonists to lodge British troops in their homes
4. generated the most protest in the colonies

a-1 b-4 c-2

The british parliament passed the stamp act to

raise money to support the new military forces needed for colonial defense

Passage of the sugar act and the stamp act

convinced many colonists that the British were trying to take away their historic liberty

Colonists objected to the Stamp Act because

Parliament passed the tax, not the colonists

When colonists shouted "No taxation without representation" they were rejecting Parliament’s power to

levy revenue-raising taxes on the colonies

"Virtual" representation meant that

every member of Parliament represented all British subjects

As a result of American opposition to the Townshend Acts

British officials sent regiments of troops to Boston to restore law and order

Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Boston Massacre, (B) Townshend Acts, (C) Tea Act, (D) Intolerable Acts.

B A C D

Match each individual on the left with the correct description
A: Samuel Adams
B: John Adams
C: Crispus Attucks
1. A casualty of the Boston Massacre
2. A foreign volunteer who drilled American troops during the Ear of Independence
3. A pamphleteer who first organized committees to exchange ideas ind information on resisting British policy.
4A massachusetts politician who opposed the moderates’ solution to the imperial crisis at the First Continental Congress

A-3 B-4 C-1

The local committees of correspondence organized by Samuel Adams

kept opposition to the British alive, through exchange of proaganda

Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) clash at Lexington and Concord (B) meeting of the First Continental Congress (C) Quebec Act (D) Boston Tea Party

D C B A

The Boston Tea Party of 1773 was

not the only such protest to occur

The Quebec Act

denied Quebec a representative assembly and trial by jury

The first Continental Congress was called in order to

consider ways of redressing colonial grievances

The first continental congress

called for a complete boycott of British goods

All of the following were weaknesses of the British military during the war for independence except

soldiers who were incapable of fighting effectively

As the War for Independence began, the colonies had the advantage of

many outstanding civil and military leaders

The colonists faced all of the following weaknesses in the War for Independence except

the use of numerous European officers

African Americans during the REvolutionary War

fought for both the Americans and the British

Perhaps the most important single action of the Second Continental Congress was to

select George Washington to head the army

Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) fighting at lexington and Concord (B) convening of the SEcond Continental Congress (C) publication of common sense (D) adoption of the Declaration of Independence

A B C D

The Revolutionary War began with fighting in _____ then in 1777-1778, fighting was concentrated in _____ and the fighting concluded in ____

New England, the middle colonies, the South

The colonial army eventually lost the Battle of Bunker Hill because its troops were

Short of gunpowder

King George III officially declared the colonies in rebellion just after

The battle of bunker hill

The colonists delayed declaring their independence until July 4, 1776 for all of the following reasons except

lack of military victories

One purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to

explain to the rest of the world why the colonies had revoluted

In a republic, pwer

comes from the people themselves

Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common SEnse

Called for American Independence and the creation of a democratic republic

Thomas Paine argued that all government officials

should derive their authority from popular consent

The resolution that "These United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states…" was introduced into the SEcond Continental Congress by Virginia Delegate

Richard Henry Lee

The feasibility of representative government had been demonstrated in

committees of correspondence

Examples of colonial experience with self-governance, which prepared Americans for a republic, included all of the following except

militia service

Most Americans considered which of the following to be fundamental for and successful republican government

civic virtue

Which individual privately advocated equality for women

abigail adams

The Declaration of Independence did all of the following except

Offered the British one last chance at reconciliation

Americans who opposed independence for the colonies were labeled ____ or _____. and the independence-seeking Patriots were also known as ___-

Loyalists, Whigs, Tories

Which of the following fates befell Loyalists after the Revolutionary War?

all of the above

Loyalists were least numerous in

New England

In late 1776 and early 1777, George Washington helped restore confidence in America’s miltiary by

Defeating the Hessians at Trenton and the British at Princeton

The basic strategy of the British in 1777 was to try to

isolate New England

France came to America’s aid in the revolution because

It wanted revenge against the British

America’s first entangling alliance was with

France

Who was the American diplomat that negotiated toe "Model Treaty" with France?

Benjamin Franklin

The commander of French troops in America was

Rochambeau

Shortly after French troops arrived in America, the resulting improvement in morale staggered when

General Benedict Arnold turned traitor

Some Indian nations joined the British during the Revolutionary war because

they believed that a british victory would restrain American expansion into the west

the "Fighting Quaker" who cleared most of Georgia and South Carolina Was

Nathanael Greene

The Indian Chief who fought for the British in New York and Pennsylvania was

Joseph Brant

During the Revolution, the frontier saw much fighting which

failed to stem the tide of westward-moving pioneers

The most important contribution of the seagoing "Privateers" during the Revolutionary War was that they

Captured hundreds of British merchant ships

After the British defeat at Yorktown

the fighting continued for more than a year

American diplomats to the peace negotiations in Paris in 1782-1783 were instructed by the Second Continental Congress to

consult with the colonies’ French allies and make no separate peace arrangements with the British

Brittain gave America generous terms in the treaty of Paris because British leaders

were trying to persuade America to abandon its alliance with France.