1) For American colonists, the postwar years following the conclusion of the Seven Years' War could be characterized best as |
b` |
2) On the eve of the American Revolution, approximately ________ million people were living in the thirteen colonies. |
a |
3) George III believed |
b |
4) In the 1760s and 1770s, most members of Parliament |
c |
5) The central issue in the Anglo-American debate over governance was A) divine sovereignty. |
c |
6) Central to the colonists' position in the Anglo-American debate over parliamentary powers was |
a |
7) In the 1760s and 1770s, colonists viewed the political struggle with Britain in terms of A) haves against have-nots. |
c |
8) The English political philosopher most often cited by American rebels was A) Thomas Paine. |
d |
9) According to this political theory, power is dangerous and must be countered by virtue. A) commonwealth |
a |
10) A major source of information for the colonists was A) newspapers. |
a |
11) The most significant consequence of the Seven Years' War was A) its virtual destruction of American Indians. |
b |
12) Who was the Delaware Prophet? A) Cotton Mather |
e |
13) Which of the following prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains? A) Navigation Act of 1772 |
b |
14) As a result of the Sugar Act, the duty on molasses was A) reduced significantly. |
a |
15) The Stamp Act of 1765 affected |
c |
16) The leader of the anti-Stamp Act movement in Virginia was A) Thomas Jefferson. |
c |
18) The radical American group which first emerged during the Stamp Act crisis was known as A) the Loyalists. |
b |
19) The tone of the Stamp Act Congress reflected |
b |
20) The boycott movement against the Stamp Act |
b |
21) Which of the following stated Parliament's belief in its own sovereignty? A) Townshend Acts |
b |
22) One consequence of the Townshend Acts was |
a |
23) Massachusetts reacted to the passage of the Townshend Acts with the A) Minute Men. |
b |
24) The fundamental issue leading to the Boston Massacre in 1770 was the A) British attempt to enforce the Tea Act. |
e |
25) The Boston Massacre |
b |
26) Each of the following developments took place between the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party EXCEPT |
b |
27) Samuel Adams's role prior to 1774 can best be described as A) pacifier. |
c |
28) The Tea Act of 1773 was passed in order to A) save the East India Company. |
a |
29) England passed the Coercive Acts in response to A) the colonial boycott of the Stamp Act. |
b |
30) Committees of correspondence were initially formed |
a |
31) A major difficulty that confronted the First Continental Congress was A) the refusal of its delegates to challenge British authority. |
e |
32) The Suffolk Resolves advocated |
a |
33) The purpose of the continental "Association" was to |
d Created by the First Continental Congress, it enforced the non-importation of British goods by empowering local Committees of Vigilence in each colony to fine or arrest violators. It was meant to pressure Britain to repeal the Coercive Acts. |
34) The most important responsibility facing the Second Continental Congress was to A) convince the colonists of the necessity for war. |
c |
35) In December 1775, Parliament passed the ________, which declared war on American international commerce. |
b |
36) Common Sense |
a |
37) The author of the Declaration of Independence was A) George Washington. |
e |
38) The Declaration of Independence |
d |
39) During the early months of the Revolutionary War, American soldiers A) received excellent training. |
c |
40) Which of the following explains why England lost the war? A) The British government did not believe it could win the war. B) British finances could not support the war. |
c |
41) The colonial militias |
c |
42) The American victory that brought about the French alliance occurred at A) Saratoga. |
a |
43) Essential to the establishment of a colonial alliance with the French was the work of A) Thomas Paine. |
e |
44) For the British, French intervention meant A) a change in military strategy. |
a |
45) In 1779, military strategists predicted that Britain's last chance for victory over the colonies lay in |
d |
46) The British commander who surrendered at Yorktown in 1781 was A) Howe. |
c |
47) Which one of the following individuals was NOT an American military leader? A) George Washington |
b |
48) The Treaty of Paris of 1783 |
d |
50) American Loyalists, who sided with the British during the War for Independence, A) tended to be wealthy conservatives. |
d |
51) Approximately ________ Loyalists left America after the war. A) 10,000 |
b |
52) Which of the following was NOT a task facing the new nation? A) what form the new government would take |
d |
T/F:By 1763, there was little hope of compromise between the British government and the American colonists. |
f |
T/F:American Loyalists found the British to be reliable and supportive partners during the Revolutionary War. |
f |
T/F:American forces enjoyed considerable success in the early phases of the Revolutionary War. |
f |
T/F:Widespread poverty in colonial America explains much of the motivation behind the American Revolution. |
f |
T/F:The Battle of Yorktown brought defeat for the English. |
t |
T/F:in eighteenth-century Britain, Parliament had achieved political sovereignty, and even the king had become subordinate to it. |
t |
T/F:The Sons of Liberty virtually led a terrorist campaign against British tax collectors during the colonial agitation over the Stamp Act. |
t |
T/F:With the Declaratory Act, Parliament finally recognized the sovereignty of the colonial |
F, "No taxation without representation" |
T/F:Thomas Hutchinson was the leading advocate of colonial independence in New York. |
f British governor of Massachusetts whose stubborn policies helped provoke the Boston Tea Party |
T/F: Although most American patriots disagreed with the Loyalists, they tended to treat them with respect after the Revolutionary War. |
f |
declatory act |
"No taxation without representation", parliament's sovereignty over colonies ignored bc stamp act gets repealed |
Bunker Hill |
the British won the battle, but suffered 1000 casualties |
Sugar Act |
1. revised duties on sugar, coffee, tea, wine, other imports. expanded jurisdiction of vice-admirality courts 2. several assemblies protest taxation for revenue |
vice admirality courts |
Military style courts, in which defendants were not entitled to a jury to try violations of the navigation acts to control smuggling. |
Stamp Act |
1. tax on printed documents 2. riots, collectors forced to resign 3. stamp act congress |
quartering act |
supply brit. troops with housing & other items protest, NY assembly punished for not following |
Townshend Revenue Act |
duties on glass, lead, paper, paints, tea; customs collection becomes stricter Newspapers attack Brit. policy |
Tea Act |
East India Company to sell tea in colonies, duties on tea reduced protest b/c of monopoly on tea; Boston Tea Party |
Coercive Act/Intolerable Act |
port Boston closed, Brit. officials accused of crimes sent 2 england or canada 1st continental congress Sept.1774 |
Prohibitory Act |
embargo American goods, American ships seized Continental congress gets driven closer to get to decide yes to independence |
This Patriot was active in Bston, stirring resentment onward the British with his propaganda |
Samuel Adama |
this reverend was the leading delegate of NJ |
John Witherspoon |
author of a pamphlet which King George and caused many ordinary Americans to favor independence |
Thomas Paine |
Delegate from Delaware, dying of dance, who came up to cast a deciding vote for his state for independence. |
Cesar Rodney |
Americans who sided with the King and England during the Revolution |
loyalists |
He was the delegate from Pennsylvania who was on the committee to write the declaration of independence. He was the oldest delegate in the Second Continental Congress. |
Benjamin Franklin |
President of the Second Continental Congress. |
John Hancock |
the lawmaking body of England |
parliament |
in what city did the 2nd continental congress take place? |
Philadelphia |
who was the commander and chief of the continental army |
george washington |