Deck 5: Reform, Resistance, Revolution

Question 1

During Pontiac' s War,

A) combined Indian tribal forces seized ten British forts and besieged two others.
B) the English introduced germ warfare by giving the Indians smallpox-infested blankets.
C) the Paxton Boys murdered unarmed Christian Indian men, women, and children.
D) the Indians were united as never before.
E) all of these choices

Answer 1

all of these choices

Question 2

Britain's hiring soldiers from ____ to fight the colonists infuriated North Americans.

A) Canada
B) Germany
C) France
D) Spain
E) Portugal

Answer 2

Germany

Question 3

Reasons for the colonists' anger over the Tea Act included

A) the monopolization rights given to certain merchants.
B) the attempt to tax the colonists with cheaper tea.
C) many tea merchants would be hurt by the act.
D) fear that it would lead to further destruction of liberty.
E) all of these choices

Answer 3

all of these choices

Question 4

The main argument of Thomas Paine's Common Sense

A) moderated the system of taxation employed by the British.
B) demanded representation in the British Parliament.
C) denounced the monarchy as a degenerate institution.
D) called for George Washington to be named king.
E) demanded that France enter the war.

Question 5

Which of the following was not part of Britain's new imperial system after 1763?

A) Sugar Act
B) Molasses Act
C) Stamp Act
D) Currency Act
E) Quartering Act

Question 6

Britain's new imperial policy after 1763 can best be described as

A) one of increased centralized control over the colonies.
B) one of relaxed control over the colonies.
C) unchanged from before 1763.
D) one that sought to get rid of the colonies.
E) one that sought to exterminate the Indians.

Question 7

George Washington was named commander of the Continental Army primarily because

A) of his victory at Fort Duquesne in 1755.
B) he was from the South.
C) he was respected as a powerful leader.
D) he had amassed a large fighting force loyal only to him.
E) he was sympathetic to the British position.

Question 8

The English responded to colonial complaints against "taxation without representation" by asserting that

A) colonial lobbyists in London represented local interests there.
B) the assemblies provided adequate protection for colonial rights.
C) each member of Parliament virtually represented all the citizens of the empire.
D) each colony could send a representative to the House of Commons.
E) representation was not necessary for a government to tax.

Question 9

The so-called Olive Branch Petition to the king in 1775

A) more or less declared that a state of war existed in North America.
B) called for increased trade between the colonies and the mother country.
C) attacked George III.
D) belligerently affirmed colonial rights.
E) affirmed the loyalty of the colonists to the crown

Question 10

The British government measure that established French civil law and the Roman Catholic Church in the province of Quebec was known as the

A) Toleration Act.
B) Quebec Act.
C) Proclamation of 1763.
D) Coercive Act.
E) the Stamp Act.

Question 11

The "regulators" in the Carolinas were

A) committees that opposed British policy.
B) committees that attempted to regulate the backcountry economy.
C) settlers that attempted to impose order in the absence of an organized government.
D) tax collectors who made regular collections from residents.
E) farmers who made illegal liquor.

Question 12

The group most adversely affected by the passage of the Sugar Act (1764) were

A) Virginia planters.
B) New England merchants.
C) Pennsylvania farmers.
D) New York manorial lords.
E) backcountry traders.

Question 13

The principal reform envisioned by the Townshend Revenue Act was to

A) raise revenue.
B) unload tea from the East India Company.
C) establish the power of the King to tax.
D) hurt colonial trade.
E) pay the salaries of colonial governors and judges.

Question 14

The Coercive Acts

A) attempted to impose new taxes on the colonies.
B) forced the port of Boston to remain open to British ships.
C) reorganized the government of Massachusetts.
D) extended the power of the governor of New York.
E) suppressed the rights of Catholics in Maryland.

Question 15

The Declaratory Act

A) repealed the Stamp Act.
B) declared that the colonies were in a state of insurrection.
C) asserted Parliament's absolute right to legislate for the colonies.
D) nullified the charters of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
E) established new taxes on the colonists.

Question 16

The Sugar Act (1764) placed a duty, or tax, on

A) imported French molasses.
B) domestic refined sugar.
C) British molasses.
D) Canadian rum.
E) all agricultural products.

Question 17

In response to the Gaspee affair of 1772-73, colonial assemblies formed

A) militia units.
B) committees of correspondence.
C) provisional governments.
D) a national army.
E) a delegation to Parliament.

Question 18

The Proclamation of 1763

A) called for an intercolonial government.
B) prohibited American settlements west of the Appalachian mountains.
C) attempted to raise a revenue in the colonies.
D) attempted to grant the colonists representatives in Parliament.
E) declared colonial resistance to imperial rule.

Question 19

____ drafted the Virginia Resolutions in 1765, which stated that colonists could be taxed only by their own assemblies.

A) George Washington
B) John Dickinson
C) Patrick Henry
D) Thomas Jefferson
E) James Madison

Question 20

The reason most Americans took up arms in 1775 was to

A) establish a republican regime.
B) avoid paying taxes.
C) restore the empire to what it had been before 1763.
D) establish a radically new vision of the future.
E) fight the Indians.

Question 21

Which of the following was not part of the Townshend program?

A) a tax on tea, paper, paint, lead, and glass imported into the colonies
B) recognition of colonial authority in providing supplies and housing for British troops
C) the use of tax revenues to pay the salaries of colonial governors and judges
D) relocation of British troops from the frontier to the major seaport cities
E) creation of a separate American Board of Customs Commissioners in Boston

Question 22

The group most responsible for overt resistance to acts of Parliament were the

A) Paxton Boys.
B) Sons of Liberty.
C) colonial assemblies.
D) "regulators."
E) citizens of Pennsylvania.

Question 23

The colonists opposed the Stamp Tax because it

A) was the first direct internal tax passed by Parliament for the North American colonies.
B) was an indirect external tax on goods imported into the colonies.
C) was too expensive to enforce.
D) gave too much authority to colonial common law courts.
E) required a large number of tax collectors to be sent from England.

Question 24

The Boston Massacre reveals

A) unity among all the colonists.
B) the role of slavery in the crisis.
C) underlying economic issues in Boston.
D) the lack of influence of the Sons of Liberty.
E) all of these choices.

Question 25

The Boston Massacre trials and the Gaspee Affair

A) convinced the English that they should vigorously punish individual political activists.
B) temporarily reduced tensions between the colonies and England.
C) increased colonial fear and distrust of English motives and policies.
D) effectively established Parliament's right to tax the colonies.
E) had no lasting impact on relations between the colonies and England.

Question 26

The colonial response to the Coercive Acts (1774) was the calling of

A) the Confederation Congress.
B) the First Continental Congress.
C) the Second Continental Congress.
D) the Albany Congress.
E) a constitutional convention.

Question 27

The goal of the British troops sent to Lexington and Concord in April 1775 was

A) to destroy the military equipment stored there.
B) to arrest John Hancock.
C) to arrest Samuel Adams.
D) to demonstrate the authority to use force against the delinquents.
E) all of these choices

Question 28

John Wilkes is significant to British and American history because

A) he created a constitutional crisis in England.
B) he openly supported the patriots.
C) he convinced France to support the U.S.
D) his paper published attacks on the US patriots.
E) he convinced the English people to turn against the U.S.

Question 29

The Declaration of Independence was primarily written by

A) John Adams.
B) Benjamin Franklin.
C) Thomas Jefferson.
D) James Madison.
E) Patrick Henry.

Question 30

Phillis Wheatley was

A) the first black college student in American history.
B) one of the victims of the Boston Massacre.
C) a poet and slave.
D) a vocal supporter of the Christianization of Africans.
E) a delegate to the Second Continental Congress.

Question 31

The Boston Massacre

A) occurred when a group of British soldiers illegally fired into a crowd that was harassing them.
B) was followed by a murder trial in which John Adams acted as a defense attorney.
C) resulted in a change of quarters for British soldiers to Castle William in Boston harbor.
D) marked the failure of Britain's attempt at military coercion.
E) all of these choices

Question 32

The purpose of George Grenville's revenue policies was to

A) force the colonies to pay the entire British debt from the French-Indian War.
B) reward the colonies that assisted England during the French-Indian War
C) centralize and increase British control over all of the colonies.
D) encourage voluntary participation of the colonies in determining their own tax burden.
E) encourage the colonies to declare independence.

Question 33

The Sugar Act, for Grenville, launched a war against

A) artisans.
B) the elites.
C) the colonial poor.
D) physicians.
E) smugglers.

Question 34

The colonial response to the Stamp Act included

A) street violence and riots.
B) economic boycotts.
C) petitions to Parliament.
D) resolutions passed by colonial assemblies.
E) all of these choices

Question 35

Colonial assemblies set up committees of correspondence to

A) coordinate intercolonial communication and organize efforts to defend American liberties.
B) send letters and petitions expressing colonial views to Spain and France.
C) organize the first postal system in North America.
D) improve relations between merchants in America and in England.
E) share information regarding Indian uprisings.

Question 36

The religious group in North America that led the attack on slavery were the

A) Catholics.
B) Presbyterians.
C) Baptists.
D) Quakers.
E) Jews.

Question 37

Colonists objected to the Quebec Act because it

A) nullified colonial property rights in Ohio.
B) extended French civil law to the area between the Great Lakes and the Ohio River.
C) established French as the official language of Canada.
D) blocked chances for their own expansion.
E) raised their taxes.

Question 38

The Tea Act (1773)

A) attempted to save the British East India Company from financial disaster.
B) removed the tax on colonists' tea.
C) increased the price of colonists' tea.
D) placed a high new tax on the colonists' tea.
E) was endorsed by the American tea sellers.

Question 39

One of the consequences of colonial rhetoric about liberty and rights was

A) the ordination of women as lay preachers in the Anglican church.
B) an end to the use of indentured servants.
C) an increase in the number of declared skeptics and atheists.
D) extending the right to vote to women.
E) agitation for the extension of equality and freedom to all people including slaves.

Question 40

In 1770, British Parliament repealed each of the Townshend Duties except for the one on

A) glass.
B) lead.
C) tea.
D) paper.
E) painters' colors.

Question 41

The greatest revenues to come in from the Sugar Act were expected to be from the tax on

A) refined sugar.
B) molasses.
C) Madeira wine.
D) coffee.
E) tea.

Question 42

George Washington was named military commander of the Continental Army because he had military experience and was from a region outside of the northeast.

Question 43

The Quartering Act (1765) stated that one-fourth of the revenue from the Stamp Act was to be given back to the colonies.

Question 44

John Wilkes was the advisor to the king most criticized by North American colonists.

Question 45

The Proclamation of 1763 banned all new settlement in northern New England.

Question 46

All of the following are true about the Revenue Act of 1766 except that

A) it reduced the duty on molasses.
B) it was clearly a revenue measure.
C) it generated more income for the empire than any other colonial tax.
D) it applied only to foreign molasses imported into the mainland.
E) few colonists attacked it for violating the principle of no taxation without representation.

Question 47

Which of the following statements about the Tea Act of 1773 is not true?

A) It repealed import duties on tea in England.
B) It mandated that tea to the colonies arrive only on special East India Company ships.
C) It restricted tea sales to only a few distributors in each colonial port.
D) The East India Company's tea would sell cheaper than smuggled tea.
E) It was designed to provide the British government with much-needed revenue.

Question 48

The First Continental Congress met in

A) New York.
B) Boston.
C) Philadelphia.
D) Charleston.
E) Washington.

Question 49

Revenues raised by the Townshend Revenue Act of 1767 were to be used for

A) pay for Britain's military wars in Europe.
B) supporting the British royal family.
C) paying the salaries of governors and judges in the colonies.
D) paying for British soldiers stationed in the colonies.
E) payments to customs collectors.

Question 50

The Proclamation of 1763 was designed to benefit western Indians.

Question 51

The Quartering Act of 1765 successfully resolved the vexing problem of how to house British troops in the Americas.

Question 52

Lord Dunmore offered which of the following to slaves who fought for the British?

A) freedom
B) money
C) gold
D) land
E) silver

Question 53

By early 1776, delegates within the Second Continental Congress from all of the following colonies except ____ voted for independence.

A) New England.
B) Georgia.
C) New York.
D) Virginia.
E) Massachusetts

Question 54

The unpopular lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, whose home was destroyed by a crowd in 1765, was Daniel Dulany.

Question 55

Which of the following was not a consequence of the Boston Tea Party?

A) British soldiers could now be housed among civilians if necessary.
B) Town meetings in Massachusetts were prohibited.
C) The port of Boston was closed until Bostonians had made restitution for the tea.
D) British soldiers or officials charged with a crime in Massachusetts would be tried either in another colony or in England.
E) the Massachusetts council was to be appointed.

Question 56

The only colony not to send a delegation to the First Continental Congress was

A) Georgia.
B) Vermont.
C) Rhode Island.
D) South Carolina.
E) Massachusetts.

Question 57

The Currency Act of 1764 forbade the colonies to issue any paper money as legal tender.

Question 58

The 1767 confrontation over implementation of the Quartering Act occurred in

A) Massachusetts.
B) New York.
C) Pennsylvania.
D) Virginia.
E) Georgia.

Question 59

The Cherokee War

A) lasted from 1750-1770.
B) occurred in the Carolinas.
C) began when Cherokee warriors attacked Charleston.
D) demonstrated the strength of British troops in America.
E) was fought against the Spanish in Florida.

Question 60

Which of the following statements is not true concerning the New England Restraining Act?

A) It barred New Englanders from the Atlantic fisheries.
B) It allowed New England to trade with England.
C) It was introduced to Parliament in January 1775.
D) It prohibited commerce between New England and any place except Britain and the British West Indies.
E) It banned New England's commerce with the British West Indies.

Question 61

The Stamp Act was never enforced.

Question 62

The idea that the British Parliament represented the needs and interests of all the empire's subjects was known as virtual representation.

Question 63

During the 1760s, the Hudson River Valley was the scene of widespread tenant unrest.

Question 64

Following the Coercive Acts, the American colonies called the First Continental Congress.

Question 65

The Stamp Act was the last in a series of direct taxes on the colonies.

Question 66

The Quebec Act (1774) established French civil law and the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec.

Question 67

By the summer of 1776, patriot forces had won control of the territory in all thirteen colonies.

Question 68

The author of Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania was John Dickinson.

Question 69

The Quartering Act of 1765 required the army to quarter its soldiers in public buildings rather than private homes.

Question 70

The Paxton Boys were all convicted of murder.

Question 71

Pontiac's War was named for a Seneca chief.

Question 72

The skirmish between British troops and colonists that led to the death of five colonists was the Boston Massacre.

Question 73

The first colonial crisis to develop after 1763 was over the Tea Act.

Question 74

The motive behind the American invasion of Canada in June 1775 was territorial expansion.

Question 75

All thirteen colonial assemblies considered a stamp tax to be unconstitutional.

Question 76

At first, Britain's George Grenville used voluntary measures to get the colonists to pay for British troops stationed in North America.

Question 77

Women did not participate in the resistance.

Question 78

The Coercive Acts were implemented in response to the Boston Massacre.

Question 79

The 1733 Molasses Act was successful in keeping French molasses out of the British colonies in North America.

Question 80

Sarah Osborn only taught African Americans.