Deck 5: Roads to Revolution

Question 1

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William Pitt

Answer 1

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Question 2

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Treaty of Paris of 1763

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Question 3

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Louisbourg

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Question 4

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George Grenville

Question 5

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Pontiac's War

Question 6

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George III

Question 7

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Virtual representation

Question 8

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Philadelphia

Question 9

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Albany Plan of Union

Question 10

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George Washington

Question 11

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James Otis

Question 12

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Sugar Act

Question 13

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George Robert Twelves Hewes

Question 14

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Writs of assistance

Question 15

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Proclamation of 1763

Question 16

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Patrick Henry

Question 17

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Seven Years' War (French and Indian War)

Question 18

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Fort Oswego and Fort William Henry

Question 19

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Loyal Nine, Sons of Liberty

Question 20

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Stamp Act, Stamp Act Congress

Question 21

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Treaty of Fort Stanwix, Lord Dunmore's Proclamation

Question 22

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Regulator movement, Battle of Alamance Creek

Question 23

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Battles of Lexington and Concord

Question 24

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Nonimportation and Nonconsumption Agreements

Question 25

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Declaratory Act

Question 26

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Charles Townshend, Revenue Act of 1767 (Townshend Duties)

Question 27

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Thomas Gage

Question 28

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Samuel Adams

Question 29

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Battle of Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill

Question 30

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Daughters of Liberty

Question 31

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Boston Massacre

Question 32

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Olive Branch Petition

Question 33

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John Dickinson

Question 34

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John Wilkes

Question 35

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Somerset decision

Question 36

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Tea Act of 1773, Boston Tea Party

Question 37

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Committees of correspondence

Question 38

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Continental Congresses

Question 39

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Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts), Quebec Act

Question 40

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John Locke

Question 41

Which of the following was not a result of the Seven Years' War?

A) The British won.
B) It created a common bond between some British and American soldiers because they fought side by side.
C) It planted seeds of misunderstanding and suspicion between the British and the Anglo-Americans.
D) The Acadians established a new homeland in Nova Scotia.
E) France ceded all its claims east of the Mississippi, except New Orleans, to Britain.

Question 42

Which statement is true concerning British tax rates during the 1760s?

A) They were considerably lower than the rates in the colonies.
B) They were the second lowest in Europe.
C) They were the second highest in Europe.
D) They were the same as the rates in the colonies.
E) They were the same as the rates in most European nations.

Question 43

Which of the following men was a British prime minister during the reign of George III?

A) John Locke
B) Thomas Hutchinson
C) Lord Dunmore
D) Lord Frederick North
E) John Wilkes

Question 44

Why is Samuel Adams significant to the development of revolutionary thought in America?

A) He argued that the colonists must resort to violence to drive the British out of the New World.
B) He wrote Common Sense which claimed King George III was ruling illegally.
C) He stressed that Parliament had every right to pass legislation applying to the colonies.
D) He encouraged Massachusetts' towns to form committees of correspondence to defend colonial rights.
E) He died during the Boston Massacre and became a martyr for supporters of the Whig Ideology.

Question 45

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Question 46

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Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence

Question 47

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John Adams

Question 48

Which statement is not true concerning the Albany Plan of Union?

A) It was based largely on the ideas of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Hutchinson.
B) It came to nothing because no colonial legislature would surrender control over its powers of taxation.
C) It called for a Grand Council that would devise military and Indian policies and demand funds from the colonies.
D) It was organized to resolve differences among the colonies and restore the confidence of the Indians.
E) It called for establishing the capital of the United States at Albany, New York.

Question 49

Which of the following was not a provision of the Sugar Act?

A) It placed a three-pence per gallon duty on foreign molasses.
B) It required that colonists exporting lumber, iron, whalebone, and other commodities to foreign countries first land their shipments in Britain.
C) It ordered accused violators of the law to be tried before vice-admiralty courts.
D) It required captains to fill out a confusing series of documents to certify his trade as legal.
E) It established that trials regarding alleged violations of trade regulations would be conducted in conformity with traditional English protections.

Question 50

Which of the following was a result of the Treaty of Paris of 1763?

A) France lost all its possessions in the New World.
B) Most of Spain's New World empire was transferred to France.
C) Louisbourg was returned to the French in exchange for a British outpost in India that the French had taken during the war.
D) Britain lost Canada and India, while the French transferred St. Pierre to the Dutch.
E) The British gained Florida and Canada and became supreme in eastern North America.

Question 51

What did the Proclamation of 1763 and the Quebec Act of 1774 have in common?

A) They both interfered with colonial claims to western lands.
B) They both extended religious freedom to Catholics.
C) They both were repealed after colonial protests.
D) They both were designed to reaffirm French sovereignty in Canada.
E) They both imposed new taxes on goods imported from Europe.

Question 52

Why did Virginia send George Washington to the Ohio Valley in 1753 and 1754?

A) It wanted Washington to survey the land so that Virginia could settle the area in an organized fashion.
B) It wanted Washington to remove the French from the region by persuasion or force.
C) It wanted Washington to build a series of forts that could intimidate the Indians.
D) It wanted Washington to capture the Indian leader Joseph Brandt.
E) It wanted Washington to negotiate a treaty with the Indians allowing the safe passage of white settlers.

Question 53

Even though most colonists thought Parliament had a lawful right to charge a duty to control trade, why did they ultimately oppose the Townshend duties?

A) Because the duty rates were excessively high, making it impossible for them to afford the essential food items.
B) Because the duties were based on income, and functioned like an income tax.
C) Because revenue-based taxes could only be considered constitutional if the people had a representative in Parliament who voted on their behalf.
D) Because the duties were to be collected by an agent of the crown, whose salary was to be paid by the colonists.
E) None of these choices

Question 54

How did the colonists attempt to reconcile with England in 1775?

A) They sent Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin to London to express their grievances.
B) They presented the Olive Branch Petition to King George III as a compromise.
C) They offered to pay for the tea dumped in Boston Harbor if the British Army was withdrawn.
D) They agreed to accept all of Parliament's demands for lifting the Intolerable Acts.
E) They promised to disarm if Parliament would remove the British soldiers.

Question 55

What happened to the Acadians after the Seven Years' War?

A) They agreed to take a loyalty oath to England and became British subjects.
B) The British moved them to a new homeland in Canada.
C) British soldiers intermarried with Acadian women.
D) The Acadians were forced from their homeland and eventually relocated to Louisiana.
E) None of these choices

Question 56

How did a writ of assistance work?

A) It helped colonial merchants cut through the red tape of imperial trade regulations.
B) It allowed the British to search a colonial merchant's house where smuggled goods were suspected, without requiring proof or probable cause, and seize any items found.
C) It required prosecutors to present evidence of probable cause for suspicion of smuggling in requesting a search warrant.
D) It required that specified colonial products be landed in Britain before being shipped to other countries.
E) It required that colonial commerce agents provide subsidies to merchants engaged in trade outside the British Empire.

Question 57

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Revenue Acts

Question 58

Which of the following does not accurately relate to the concept of republicanism that began to circulate in the colonies in the decade before the American revolution?

A) It balanced Locke's emphasis on individual rights with the innate good in people.
B) It included a sense of civic duty.
C) It argued that citizens had an obligation to practice public virtue and avoid moral and political corruption.
D) It considered factions that represented different groups would be the key to a truly representative government.
E) All of these choices

Question 59

How did William Pitt plan to encourage the Americans to assume the military burden in the Seven Years' War in America?

A) He promised to open the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains to settlement.
B) He hinted broadly at increased colonial self-government in the post-war world.
C) He promised that if the colonies raised the necessary men, Parliament would bear the financial burden.
D) He guaranteed lower tariffs and internal taxes in the post-war era.
E) All of these choices

Question 60

Why did Pontiac's War occur?

A) The British stopped distributing food, ammunition and other gifts to the Indians, as the French had done, and colonists were moving onto Native American lands.
B) The British had abandoned their western forts to the French, who were abusive toward the Native Americans there.
C) The colonial government of Virginia had been pressuring Iroquois tribes to move west so that white settlement could expand.
D) Some Indian tribes objected to the alliance that had been formed with the Spanish.
E) African-American slaves in South Carolina began to fear the loss of status to Indian indentured servants.

Question 61

John Dickinson's Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania is significant because

A) Benjamin Franklin signed and endorsed it.
B) it was the first written essay to suggest that the colonies break from England.
C) it outlined how burdensome taxes were to struggling farmers in the colonies.
D) its condemnation of the Townshend and other duties introduced the language of taxation without representation into the debate with England.
E) All of these choices

Question 62

What was the colonial resistance leaders' first attempt at maintaining close and continuing cooperation in defense of colonists' rights over a wide area?

A) The Stamp Act Manifesto
B) The committees of correspondence
C) The Continental Congress
D) The circular letter
E) The spinning bee network

Question 63

Which of the following would have most influenced the opinion of the average colonial American on political issues of the day?

A) Political pamphlets
B) Sermons
C) Newspapers
D) Weekly magazines
E) Books

Question 64

What agreement did the delegates to the Stamp Act Congress reach?

A) They agreed that the colonies should declare their independence if Parliament did not repeal the Stamp Act.
B) They agreed to boycott any products requiring official British stamps.
C) They agreed that Parliament did not have the right to levy taxes outside of Great Britain.
D) They agreed to send delegates to London to petition for recognition as the colonies true legislature.
E) They agreed to accept the Stamp Act if Parliament offered membership to American representatives.

Question 65

Which of the following statements concerning Philadelphia before the America Revolution is not true?

A) It grew so quickly that it taxed its water supply and created public health problems.
B) It suffered from limited or nonexistent garbage and sewage disposal.
C) It became the official capital of the colonies for the British empire.
D) Its ideal location made it a leading Atlantic port.
E) It was the fastest growing American city in the 18 ^th century.

Question 66

According to the colonists, what did the American Board of Customs Commissioners do?

A) It pursued a program that was little more than a system of legalized piracy.
B) It functioned only if the British government furnished the funds needed to pay the commissioners.
C) It offered a more efficient and equitable method of collecting customs because it was an American, rather than a British, commission.
D) It was made up of treasonous Tories who should have been hanged in the town square.
E) It was hampered in defending merchant John Hancock because of British regulations.

Question 67

What happened in the Boston Massacre?

A) A large force of British troops ruthlessly fired on unarmed civilians, killing fifty.
B) An unpopular customs informer killed two young boys when he fired birdshot at several children bombarding his house with rocks.
C) A fictitious confrontation, invented by Samuel Adams, took place between British troops and Boston citizens.
D) Unemployed Boston fishermen ambushed a squad of British soldiers, killing them and twenty innocent bystanders.
E) Tensions between British soldiers and Bostonians erupted when Bostonians hurled objects at British soldiers, who then fired and killed five citizens.

Question 68

Which of the following was the attorney who defended the British soldiers accused of firing on the civilians in the Boston Massacre?

A) John Adams
B) Thomas Hutchinson
C) Thomas Paine
D) John Wilkes
E) John Dickinson

Question 69

Events in the late 1760s and early 1770s helped to bring about a new consensus in the colonies. What was that consensus?

A) The government could not tax the colonies because they were not represented in Parliament.
B) The British constitution could be altered by the passage of new laws.
C) Parliament had no lawmaking authority over the colonies except for the right to regulate imperial commerce.
D) The American colonies would be free from tyranny only when they were independent of British rule.
E) Only by working within the British constitution could the colonies safeguard their liberties.

Question 70

Who led the group in Parliament who opposed the domestic and foreign policies of George III?

A) James Otis
B) John Wilkes
C) John Hancock
D) Frederick North
E) Patrick Henry

Question 71

What was the effect of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix?

A) It led to the withdrawal of French forces from the Ohio Valley.
B) It heightened western tensions as more settlers moved into the Ohio Valley and agitated to establish a new colony.
C) It forced the Indians in the Ohio Valley to move west of the Mississippi River.
D) It prevented American settlers from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.
E) It opened the Great Lakes to trade by American settlers.

Question 72

What did the Townshend Duties do?

A) They required that all legal documents and newspapers be printed on special watermarked paper.
B) They set moderate tax rates on certain imported items to the colonies.
C) They imposed such heavy duties on imported goods that colonists could no longer afford to buy them.
D) They removed taxes on all items except those being shipped to the British West Indies.
E) They raised large amounts of revenue and helped to reduce the British treasury's serious deficit.

Question 73

How did the British government react to the colonial opposition to the Stamp Act?

A) It revoked the act and slowly began to return its colonial policies to those of salutary neglect.
B) It reinforced all British garrisons in North America and prepared for a long conflict.
C) It concluded that the colonies were incapable of cooperating and that the next phase of imperial restructuring should begin.
D) It imposed harsh martial law on the colonies and revoked all civil liberties.
E) It revoked the act but reaffirmed parliamentary power to legislate for the colonies in all cases.

Question 74

What did the conflict over the Quartering Act demonstrate?

A) It showed that there was strong anticolonial sentiment in the House of Commons and that Parliament would not hesitate to defend its sovereignty.
B) It showed that there was a strong procolonial bloc in the House of Commons that was prepared to exert considerable pressure on the government to maintain good relations with the colonies.
C) It showed that neither the king nor Parliament particularly cared about the civil liberties of Americans as long as the colonies were paying their share of colonial defense.
D) It showed that the British government was caught in a dilemma of wanting to permit continued American self-governance but, at the same time, wanting to reassert at least the principle of parliamentary sovereignty.
E) It showed that King George III was, in reality, the main force within the British government restraining the ministry of Lord North from imposing a tyranny on the colonies.

Question 75

What did the 1773 Tea Act do?

A) It raised import duties on tea and thereby caused the cost of tea to skyrocket.
B) It granted the British East India Company a monopoly on all tea sold in the colonies, thereby permitting the company to raise tea prices across the board.
C) It eliminated all remaining import duties on tea entering England and, as a result, significantly lowered the price of tea in the colonies.
D) It prohibited the consumption of any tea that had not been shipped in British vessels.
E) It ended all tea monopolies, thereby opening up competition and putting American smugglers out of business.

Question 76

What was the principle of virtual representation?

A) It was the idea that every person should vote on each issue.
B) It was the idea that every male should be able to select a representative to represent his interests in Parliament.
C) It was the idea that everyone had representation since the king was a representative of all the people.
D) It was the idea that male property holders should hold elected offices.
E) It was the idea that members of Parliament represented all British subjects because they considered the welfare of all subjects  and not just the interests of some  when deciding issues.

Question 77

What was the purpose of the 1764 Sugar Act?

A) It was designed to raise revenues to offset British military expenses in North America.
B) It was designed to provide King George III with the necessary resources to maintain his opulent lifestyle.
C) It was designed to increase the consumption of sugar in the colonies by reducing its price.
D) It was designed to create a monopoly over the sugar trade by the British East India Company.
E) It was designed to eliminate French involvement in the sugar trade.

Question 78

The Battle of Alamance Creek was

A) about the limitations of colonial militia.
B) part of the Regulator movement and triggered by westerners who felt underrepresented in colonial assemblies and were unable to find redress for their grievances.
C) a battle between colonists on the frontier seeking to expand further west and Native Americans who wanted to protect and keep their land.
D) evidence that the French were intent on returning to the Ohio Valley despite their defeat in the Seven Years' War.
E) All of these choices

Question 79

How were women important to colonial resistance?

A) They led the non-consumption movement.
B) A group of women established the Daughters of Liberty to protest the Stamp Act.
C) In response to the Revenue Act, three hundred Boston women denounced the consumption of tea.
D) They helped to expand domestic cloth production.
E) All of these choices

Question 80

How did Americans oppose the Stamp Act?

A) Street fighters maimed or murdered anyone who supported the act.
B) Americans damaged and destroyed property.
C) Gangs of seamen tarred and feathered stamp distributors.
D) Prominent women led a wide-spread boycott of stamps.
E) They created a congress that advocated independence from Great Britain.