US History Chapter 4

The purpose of the Coercive Acts was to:

punish Boston for the Tea Party.

At the Battle of Bunker Hill:

the British suffered major casualties.

By 1750, the French population in North America:

was vastly outnumbered by the English.

The Navigation Act of 1660 specified "enumerated" goods that:

could only be shipped to England or its colonies.

The Dominion of New England:

marked an attempt to bolster the authority of the Crown.

A writ of assistance was:

a blanket search warrant that did not specify the place to be searched.

At the end of the war, New Orleans and all of the

went to Spain.

Which of the following did the French settle first?

Quebec

One of the chief objectives of policy under George Grenville was to:

reduce Britain’s enormous debt.

Pontiac’s Rebellion involved all of the following, EXCEPT:

the return of French soldiers to Canada.

French colonists in North America:

established cooperative relations with the Indians.

As a result of the 1763 Treaty of Paris, Britain acquired ________ from Spain.

Florida

All of the following are true of Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, EXCEPT that it:

secured American independence.

As a result of the Boston Massacre:

all but two of the British defendants were acquitted

The French and Indian War was triggered by:

conflicting French and English claims to the Ohio Valley.

In 1678, a defiant Massachusetts legislature declared the Navigation Acts:

as having no legal standing in the colony.

Which of the following is NOT true of the Townshend duties?

The shipbuilding industry was hurt as imports and exports decreased

The result of General Edward Braddock’s effort to capture Fort Duquesne was:

a devastating ambush and defeat.

The triumph of what Britain called the Great War saw Americans:

celebrating as joyously as Londoners

The Navigation Act of 1651:

required all goods imported into Britain or the colonies to be shipped in British vessels.

The Sugar Act of 1764:

taxed imports in order to raise revenue

In response to American protests, in 1766 Parliament:

repealed the Stamp Act.

A series of British wars against the French began during the reign of King:

William

The right to vote for members of the colonial assemblies was:

extended to a greater proportion of the population than anywhere else in the world

The major objective of the Tea Act of 1773 was to:

bail out the East India Company.

Mercantilism involved:

A. government’s attempt to maintain favorable balance of trade

When the British ship Gaspee ran aground in Rhode Island, the local population:

burned it.

The Declaratory Act of 1766:

reasserted the government’s right to tax the colonists.

All of the following were true of the early Revolution, EXCEPT that:

Patriots were universally united behind the cause of independence.

One change brought to the American colonies after the Glorious Revolution was that the:

monarchy attempted to tighten its grip on the colonies by making more of them royal colonies.

Colonial royal governors:

had veto power over colonial assemblies.

The 1765 Stamp Act:

required revenue stamps on legal and commercial documents.

In April 1775, the British marched to Concord, Massachusetts, in an effort to:

seize a stockpile of weapons, ammunition, and powder.

Prime Minister Robert Walpole’s relaxed policy toward the colonies:

enabled the Americans to pursue greater political independence.

John Locke’s social contract theory of government argued that:

men have certain rights in the state of nature, including the right to life, liberty, and property.