Deck 5: War and Empire

Question 1

What was General Jeffrey Amherst's general philosophy toward Indians?

A) All Indians threatened Europeans and should be exterminated.
B) Indians were peaceful people unjustly caught up in European wars.
C) Some Indians were evil and deserved to be killed.
D) Europeans must learn to coexist with Indians for everyone's survival.

Answer 1

All Indians threatened Europeans and should be exterminated.

Question 2

According to the passage, why did London merchants petition Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act?

A) Stamp taxes would anger the Americans and cause them to declare independence.
B) Stamp taxes left the colonists unable to pay the money they owed to the merchants.
C) Stamp taxes were used to pay for programs that would burden the community.
D) The merchants were afraid that they would be taxed next.

Answer 2

Stamp taxes left the colonists unable to pay the money they owed to the merchants.

Question 3

What inspired the Cherokee nation to dissolve its long-term trade agreement with South Carolina in late 1759?

A) The French were more desirable partners.
B) The Cherokee ran out of fur to trade.
C) The British failed to pay their debts.
D) Colonists kept encroaching into Cherokee hunting grounds.

Answer 3

Colonists kept encroaching into Cherokee hunting grounds.

Question 4

On what basis was much land granted by European governments to North American settlers in the seventeenth century?

A) Sale to the highest bidders
B) Defeat of local Indian tribes
C) Successful development proposals
D) Personal connections

Question 5

What impact did the French and Indian War have on the relationship between the British crown and its North American colonies?

A) It left the colonists feeling neglected by the crown.
B) It finally resolved colonial issues with Native Americans.
C) It tightened the bond between the crown and the colonies.
D) There was a dramatic loss of land and connection.

Question 6

What were the political consequences of repeated Cherokee attacks on British borderland settlements?

A) The British increased expenditures on military supplies and defense, driving them into debt.
B) Backcountry settlers resented political leaders from more settled regions who failed to provide sufficient soldiers or funds for defense.
C) Indian laws and community values were adopted by the British settlers, resulting in a more powerful Indian nation.
D) Backcountry settlers were unable to vote, leading them to disengage from colonial politics.

Question 7

What was the name of the 1754 gathering of colonial leaders to discuss matters of frontier defense, trade, and territorial expansion?

A) The Philadelphia Union
B) The Continental Congress
C) The Albany Congress
D) The Constitutional Convention

Question 8

What inspired the conflict among the colonists and Britain in New York's Hudson Valley and New Jersey, even before the French and Indian War?

A) The French walked all over the colonists' land rights.
B) Landlords and speculators exploited working people.
C) Settlers were unable to secure the land from local Indian tribes.
D) Britain levied an extremely high usage tax on settlers.

Question 9

Which European power established extensive trade networks with Indians throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that subsequently gave them Indian military support during times of war?

A) The Netherlands
B) Spain
C) Great Britain
D) France

Question 10

Whose military leadership inspired a transformation of the political and military landscape in the British war with the French in 1757?

A) William Pitt
B) George Washington
C) Edward Braddock
D) Benjamin Franklin

Question 11

What key step was necessary to finalize the Peace of Paris in 1763, drawing the French and Indian War to an end?

A) The destruction of weapons
B) Land cession
C) Recognition of Indian sovereignty
D) Dissolution of the British Empire

Question 12

Which European nation aspired to form an alliance with the powerful Iroquois Confederacy in 1754 to protect its territory from other Indians and rival Europeans?

A) Great Britain
B) France
C) Spain
D) The Netherlands

Question 13

What event during the early eighteenth century both served as a vital mode of communication and advanced efforts among colonists to forge alliances over issues of British abuse?

A) The Great Awakening
B) Naval Impressment
C) The Peace of Paris
D) The Albany Congress

Question 14

How did the British crown react to news of the union forming among colonial leaders in the 1750s?

A) They were glad the colonies were finally working together.
B) They were threatened by this newfound unity.
C) They hoped it would relieve them of burdensome decision making.
D) They supplied the union with weapons to further validate it.

Question 15

A group of men from Paxton Creek, Pennsylvania, known as the "Paxton Boys," marched to Philadelphia to

A) present local Indians to Philadelphia for trial.
B) demonstrate the need for a railroad.
C) demand the right to vote in local and statewide elections.
D) elicit protection from Indians on the frontier.

Question 16

According to the passage, what key grievance led frontier settlers in North Carolina, like Hermon Husband, to instigate armed resistance against the proprietary government?

A) The proprietors were cutting down trees on the vacant land that the settlers wanted for building houses.
B) The proprietors were preventing colonists from settling the wasted land on the frontier.
C) Colonial offices were closed, so settlers couldn't get their land claims legalized.
D) The colonial government failed to protect the frontier settlers from attacks by neighboring Indians.

Question 17

In the 1750s, struggles to further European imperial claims were inspired by signs of

A) French weakness in North America.
B) British weakness in North America.
C) Native American weakness in North America.
D) Native American strength in North America.

Question 18

Why was the French and Indian War of 1754 significant for Great Britain?

A) Great Britain was unaffected by it.
B) Great Britain lost land in the struggle.
C) Great Britain gained land in the struggle.
D) Great Britain was defeated by the French.

Question 19

What movement unified men and women, blacks and whites, and people of all classes in the mid-eighteenth century?

A) War resistance
B) Tax evasion
C) Abolition of slavery
D) Resistance to impressment

Question 20

What religious denomination grew out of the Great Awakening and proclaimed a message of absolute spiritual equality?

A) Episcopal
B) Catholic
C) Separate Baptist
D) Unitarian

Question 21

Why did the king and Parliament allow local governments in the British North American colonies to exercise some control over decisions?

A) The king believed in local sovereignty.
B) They believed that allowing local governments some sense of autonomy made it easier to rule.
C) That was the agreement they had made with local governments.
D) They thought that they couldn't stop local governments even if they wanted to.

Question 22

Who led the Sons of Liberty in Boston in protesting the Stamp Act?

A) Andrew Oliver
B) Thomas Hutchinson
C) John Henry
D) Samuel Adams

Question 23

What mid-eighteenth-century act restricted the supply of money in the North American colonies?

A) Currency Act
B) Dollar Bill Act
C) Stamp Act
D) Treasury Act

Question 24

The governor of what colony sent troops to the frontier to quell what he viewed as an open rebellion by Regulators following the Stamp Act crisis?

A) Virginia
B) North Carolina
C) Massachusetts
D) South Carolina

Question 25

What inspired George Grenville, prime minister and chancellor of the Exchequer, to reassert British economic and political authority in the colonies?

A) The colonies had become too willful and independent.
B) Britain was deeply in debt.
C) Economic growth gave Britain new resources for colonial rule.
D) Colonial governors asked for more British involvement.

Question 26

How were the funds collected under the Stamp Act to be spent?

A) For personal use by the king
B) Toward improvements to roads and waterways
C) For defense and protection of the colonies
D) For replanting forests used to make paper

Question 27

What was the intent of the first Continental Congress when it assembled in Virginia in 1774?

A) To draft the Constitution of the United States
B) To draft the Peace Treaty of 1774
C) To form a union of colonies against Britain
D) To discuss the impact of British policies

Question 28

Why did Parliament offer the East India Company a monopoly on the tea trade in the colonies?

A) The crown wanted to punish the Boston Tea Company.
B) Colonists proved unable to efficiently distribute tea on their own.
C) The East India Company offered the most unique teas at the best prices.
D) The East India Company was on the verge of economic collapse.

Question 29

When the Sons of Liberty organized their "tea party" and rallied against the British by boarding British ships and dumping forty-five tons of tea into the sea, they dressed like

A) the artisans they were.
B) Indians.
C) pilgrims.
D) the king of England.

Question 30

What was the popular name for the American Duties Act of 1764?

A) King George's Act
B) Navigation Act
C) Stamp Act
D) Sugar Act

Question 31

Before passage of the Stamp Act, how did the tax burden of the average Englishman compare to that of the average Bostonian?

A) It was 100 times greater.
B) It was 25 times greater.
C) It was 10 times greater.
D) It was twice as much.

Question 32

What was the effect of the Continental Congress on former colonies like Massachusetts?

A) It recognized the important leadership of Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty.
B) It drew power away from colonial entities like Massachusetts.
C) It appointed Samuel Adams of Massachusetts the leader of its organizing efforts.
D) It emphasized the power of northern states over southern states.

Question 33

The 1765 Stamp Act taxed what transactions?

A) All mail and packages
B) Newspaper delivery only
C) All transactions involving paper items
D) The printing of magazines and broadsides

Question 34

Which of the acts imposed by Parliament upset ordinary North American colonists the most?

A) The Stamp Act
B) The Sugar Act
C) The Navigation Act
D) The Currency Act

Question 35

South Carolina Regulators seized control of the western regions of the colony, took up arms, and established their own system of justice, which led to

A) representation in the colonial assembly.
B) a brutal attack by the governor.
C) permission to set up their own community as long as it was isolated from colonial policies.
D) colonial integration into Indian communities and adoption of Indian culture.

Question 36

Which colonial government first stood against the Stamp Act?

A) Massachusetts
B) Rhode Island
C) Virginia
D) Pennsylvania

Question 37

Why did John Dickinson, writing as "A Farmer," argue that even though the Townsend Duties did not cost much, they were still unjust?

A) The taxes undermined the system of checks and balances.
B) Colonists accepted general regulations on trade, but not internal taxes.
C) Americans already paid for their defense through other means.
D) Accepting even a small tax set a precedent that would justify any tax.

Question 38

Why did British soldiers compete for jobs with colonists?

A) To gain control of the economy
B) To make sure they had work during peacetime
C) To supplement their wages
D) To anger the British crown

Question 39

How did the British government immediately respond to the Boston Tea Party?

A) They successfully charged, convicted, and executed the protestors.
B) They sent in troops and opened fire on the crowd.
C) They closed the port of Boston and demanded compensation.
D) They revoked the monopoly granted to the East Indian Company on tea sales.

Question 40

What situation led many colonists to arm themselves against what they saw as an encroachment on their rights and institutions?

A) The East Indian Company Tea monopoly
B) The Boston Massacre
C) The imposition of the Intolerable Acts
D) The imposition of the Stamp Act

Question 41

Why were most elite colonists concerned about the energies stirred up by the Stamp Act crisis?

A) They feared further rebellion against them by poorer people.
B) They worried that Britain would abandon them economically and militarily.
C) They feared that elites from other nations would not want to trade with them.
D) They worried that slaves would side with Britain against the colonies.

Question 42

Who assumed the leadership role in the Stamp Act protests?

A) Judges, sheriffs, and colonial officials
B) Artisans and small farmers
C) Merchants, lawyers, and local leaders
D) Servants, slaves, and the working poor

Question 43

In the aftermath of the successful Stamp Tax protests, how did Parliament reassert its supremacy?

A) It increased the tax on sugar and other imported goods to raise the missing revenue.
B) It declared war on the colonies and sought to destroy them.
C) It declared its authority to pass any law on the colonies whenever it wanted.
D) It sent over more representatives from the crown to run state and local governments.

Question 44

How long after the Stamp Act Congress of October 1765 did Parliament repeal the Stamp Act?

A) One month
B) Six months
C) One year
D) Two years

Question 45

In the aftermath of the Stamp Act Congress and calls of resistance to British laws that were unjust, the delegates proclaimed their loyalty to

A) Parliament.
B) the king of England.
C) God alone.
D) the king of France.

Question 46

When the colonies declared a boycott on British goods, who formed the backbone of the movement?

A) Artisans
B) Small farmers
C) Sea captains
D) Women

Question 47

What broke the year-long peace between Britain and its North American colonies following the resolution of the Stamp Act crisis?

A) Colonial elites decided to reject the Navigation Act.
B) Britain decided to reintroduce the Stamp Act.
C) Britain created a new tax on many imported items.
D) Samuel Adams led a rebellion against British rule.