APUSH Chapter 5

Which of the following statements been characterized the British government attempts to meet its was debt following the great war for empire

Parliament increased import taxes on items used by the poor and middling classes such as sugar and beer

How did Britain skyrocketing national debt effective government in England and America and the 1760s

The need for higher taxes spurred Britain to increase the size and power of its bureaucracy in England and America

Which of the following is part of British Parliament ever to govern the colonies after the great war for empire ended in 1763

the seizure of american vessels carrying supplies from the mainland to the French West Indies

George Grenville conceived the sugar act of 1764 to replace which of the following acts

The Molasses Act of 1733

George Grenville designed the sugar act of 1764 to accomplish which of the following

Improve colonial merchants compliance with customs laws

The colonists a real objections to the sugar act stemmed from which of the following

The growing administration power of the British government over the colonies

On what basis did the American colonists object to the vice admiralty courts in which violators of the sugar act were tried

the courts were run by British-appointed judges and did not involve judges

The stamp act was instituted by Parliament in the colonies in 1765; it was

part of englands plan to create a more centralized imperial system in america

Which of following statements characterizes responses to the planned stamp act

british politicians, with the exception of William Pitt, refused to consider the idea of American representation in Parliament

Which of the following statements describes the stamp act Congress which was held in New York in 1765

the delegates protested loss of american liberties and challenged the act’s constitutionally

Members of activist groups such as the Sons of liberty were typically which of the following

artisans, shopkeepers, poor laborers, and seamen

Which of the following factors was among those that motivated many merchants artisans and journeyman to protest against the Stamp Act

Fear that their personal liberty would be undermined

Why did the British Gen. Gage refuse to use his military force to protect the stamps that were to be used once the Stamp Act took affect

gage believed that military force would disperse the protests but spark an insurrection

In the 1760s and early 1770s lawyers and other educated Americans used arguments mainly to

assert the colonists’ rights and liberties as Englishmen

John Dickinson’s letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania was a response to which of the following policies

The Stamp Act

Patriots widely publicized use of natural rights arguments to protest British actions in the 1760s inspired which of the following

African American slaves to petition the Massachusetts legislature for the abolition of slavery

In which of the following ways did the rockingham ministry in Britain fashion a compromise to the stamp act crisis in 1766

It repealed the Stamp Act, lowered the molasses tax, and crafted the Declaratory Act

The townshend acts of 1767 impose duties on which of the following goods

Paper, paint, glass, and tea imported into the colonies

Which of the following statements most describes the colonial boycott efforts of 1768 to 1769

Support began in seaport cities, then spread to more major population centers

How did the authorities in Great Britain respond to the American boycott of 1768 to 1769

Lord Hillsborough–secretary of state for American affairs–dispatched British troops to Boston

How did the stamp act crisis of 1765 compared to the crisis over the town shed duties in 1768

The stakes had risen: In 1765, American resistance to taxation had provoked an argument in Parliament; in 1768, it produced a British plan for military coercion

For which of the following reasons did the British government resolve and to punish the boycott or so and enforce the town shed at duties by 1769

Hard-hit by the boycott, British merchants and manufacturers petitioned Parliament to repeal the Townshend Duties

In the decade before the American Revolution the colonists achieved the greatest affected by using which of the following means of protest

Boycotts

Which of the following statements describes the Boston Mass. care which took place on March 5, 1770

Five Bostonians were shot and killed by British troops who were later exonerated of the crime

By 1770 after five years of crisis and debate over American soverignty

outspoken colonial leadrs had repuditaed Parliament and claimed equality for their own assemblies under the king

Which patriot leader persuaded Bostonians to grade the first committee of correspondence

Samuel Adams

Which of the following was the purpose of the tea act imposed by Parliament on the counties in May 1773

The british needed to bail out the financially strapped British East India Company

Why did radical patriots in the colonies object to the tea act of 1773

They saw it as a bribe to eliminate colonial tax resistance

The 1774 coercive acts apply to which of the following companies

Massachusetts only

Why did New Englanders resent the Quebec act of 1774

it recognized Catholicism as the official religion of Quebec

Which of the following describes the first Continental Congress in 1774

The group united representatives from all of the British colonies in North America

At the first Continental Congress in 1774 New England delegates advocated which of the following

Political union and defensive military preparations

Which of the following actions did the first Continental Congress ultimately decide to implement in 1774

threatening to cut off almost all American exports in Britain, Ireland, and the West Indies

Which of the following actions did Lord North’s government take in response to the First continental Congress in 1775

Demanding that Americans acknowledge Parliamentary supremacy

Which of the following statements characterizes the participation of farmers in the patriot movement by 1774

Farmers, angered by high taxes and Britains demands that their sons do military service, increasingly backed by rebel cause

Why did Chesapeake slaveowners increasingly rally to the patriots cause

They feared the British would seize control of courts and assemblies in the South if they succeeded in doing so in Massachusetts

Which is following statements describes the Starkel significance of the April 1776 battle of Lexington and Concorde

The bloodshed that took place made further compromise impossible

Which of the following events took place during the second Continental Congress in 1775

George Washington became head of the Continental army

Why was the popular pamphlet entitled commonsense significant

It called for republicanism and convinced many colonists of the need to fight for American independence

Which of the following outcome is resulted from the Continental Congress approval of the Declaration of Independence

Loyalists and anti-independence moderates left the Congress

Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea. Known in America as the intolerable acts they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies

Coercive Acts

The rights to life liberty and property.

Natural LIghts

Colonists primarily Midland merchants and arsons to banded together to protest the stamp act another Imperial are forms of the late 1760s

Sons of Liberty

A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain

Deceleration of Independence

Colonial militia men who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the appeal prices of the 1770s

Minutemen

The group established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods

committees of correspondence

He wrote in one of his letters. "We are therefore slaves."

John Dickinson

He repudiated parliamentary supremacy and claimed equality for the american assemblies within the empires

Samuel Adams