Deck 6: The Road to Revolution

Question 1

Mercantilists believed that

A) a mother country needed to import more goods than it exported.
B) power came from a small colonial empire.
C) the mother country produced raw materials and colonies produced the finished product.
D) a country's economic wealth could be measured by the amount of gold and silver in its treasury.
E) colonies drained a country of its resources.

Answer 1

a country's economic wealth could be measured by the amount of gold and silver in its treasury.

Question 2

All of the following are true about the War of Jenkins's Ear EXCEPT

A) it resulted in France allying itself with Britain.
B) it began as a small scuffle between Britain and Spain in America.
C) it came to be called King George's War after merging with the War of Austrian Succession in Europe.
D) New England recruits invaded New France.
E) it resulted in Spain allying itself with Russia against France and Britain.

Answer 2

it resulted in France allying itself with Britain.

Question 3

None of the 13 colonies were formally planted by the British government EXCEPT

A) Virginia.
B) Maryland.
C) South Carolina.
D) Georgia.
E) Massachusetts.

Answer 3

Georgia.

Question 4

The British Parliament enacted currency legislation that was intended primarily to benefit

A) Virginia tobacco planters.
B) British merchants.
C) New England merchants.
D) backwoods farmers.
E) the Crown.

Question 5

Identify the statement that is false.

A) Royal titles were unknown in the American colonies.
B) Property ownership and political participation were relatively accessible.
C) The Americans were dependent on the British officials in London to run their affairs.
D) Republican and Whig ideas predisposed the Americans to be more aware of threats to their rights.
E) Distance weakens authority; great distance weakens authority greatly.

Question 6

In his first military command encounter in the French and Indian War, Lieutenant Colonel George Washington

A) won a decisive and hard-fought battle for British forces at Fort Duquesne.
B) was defeated by French forces at Fort Necessity following a ten-hour siege in July 1754.
C) received strong military support and reinforcements from the British Army command and political authorities.
D) helped to force the French out of Nova Scotia.
E) displayed his twenty years of military experience to great military success.

Question 7

The clash between Britain and France for control of the North American continent sprang from their rivalry for control of

A) Cape Breton Island.
B) the Ohio River Valley.
C) the Mississippi River.
D) the Great Lakes.
E) the St. Lawrence River.

Question 8

The radical Whigs feared

A) too much democracy.
B) a written constitution.
C) the arbitrary and enhanced power of the monarchy and its ministers at the expense of Parliament.
D) a too powerful parliament.
E) republicanism.

Question 9

The first Navigation Laws were designed to

A) help colonists get the best possible price for their trade goods.
B) eliminate Dutch shippers from the American carrying trade.
C) foster a colonial economy that would offer healthy competition with Britain's.
D) encourage agricultural experimentation in the colonies.
E) support the mapping of the Atlantic trade routes.

Question 10

The early wars between France and Britain in North America were notable for the

A) large number of troops committed by both sides.
B) lack of Indian participation.
C) carryover of European tactics to America.
D) use of primitive guerrilla warfare.
E) advanced technology used during the warfare.

Question 11

Republicanism held that the stability of society and the authority of the government

A) rested with the legislature.
B) depended on a strong hierarchical culture.
C) rested with a strong monarchy.
D) rested on an interdependence of all citizens.
E) depended on the virtue of its citizenry.

Question 12

In a broad sense, America was

A) a revolutionary force from the day of its discovery by Europeans.
B) a place that nurtured a love for Britain.
C) completely dependent on Britain for economic support.
D) a place where no new ideas took shape.
E) essentially a conservative society.

Question 13

The reason Britain needed to control the Ohio Valley was to

A) continue its expansion west in North America and block French land-grabbing and influence.
B) ensure defeat of the French in the War of Jenkins Ear.
C) halt the growth of Spanish imposition in North America.
D) secure the Mississippi River and continue pushing further south to control all of Mexico.
E) link their Canadian holdings with those of the lower Mississippi Valley.

Question 14

For examples of a just society, Republicans looked to the models of the ____.

A) Egyptians
B) Greeks and Romans
C) Middle Ages
D) Renaissance
E) Enlightenment

Question 15

New England colonists were outraged when British diplomats returned what to France in 1748?

A) Hudson Bay
B) Acadia
C) Louisbourg
D) Newfoundland
E) Nova Scotia

Question 16

During a generation of peace following the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, Britain provided its American colonies with

A) a large military presence for protection.
B) decades of salutary neglect.
C) higher taxes passed by Parliament.
D) stronger parliamentary direction.
E) representative seats in the British Parliament.

Question 17

The founding of the American colonies by the British was

A) accomplished in a well-planned fashion.
B) based on the high-minded aspirations of groups such as the Puritans and the Quakers.
C) undertaken by the government in every case.
D) undertaken in a haphazard manner.
E) rarely undertaken by trading companies or religious groups.

Question 18

The reason France needed to control the Ohio Valley was to

A) stop Spain from extending its empire.
B) help win the War of Jenkins's Ear.
C) stop the Indian attacks on its outposts.
D) link its Canadian holdings with those of the lower Mississippi Valley.
E) be able to put more of its settlers there in order to increase farm production.

Question 19

The War of Jenkins's Ear was

A) fought in European waters.
B) a great victory for Spain.
C) confined to the Caribbean Sea and Georgia.
D) the event that established the policy of salutary neglect.
E) a defeat for France.

Question 20

Under mercantilist doctrine, the American colonies were expected to do all of the following EXCEPT

A) supply Britain with products such as tobacco, sugar and ships' masts.
B) become economically self-sufficient as soon as possible.
C) furnish ships, seamen, and trade to bolster the strength of the Royal Navy.
D) provide a market for British manufactured goods.
E) refrain from exporting woolen cloth.

Question 21

Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity; (B) General Edward Braddock is defeated near Fort Duquesne; (C) British troops capture Louisbourg in their first significant victory of the French and Indian War; and (D) General James Wolfe's army defeats Montcalm's on the Plains of Abraham.

A) B, A, D, C
B) A, B, C, D
C) C, B, A, D
D) A, C, B, D
E) A, B, D, C

Question 22

All of the following were allies on one side of the French and Indian War EXCEPT

A) France.
B) Prussia.
C) Spain.
D) Austria.
E) Russia.

Question 23

Which of these statements does NOT describe relations between British and colonial troops during the Seven Years' War?

A) The British looked down on the colonists as amateurish and contemptible.
B) The colonists considered themselves to be on the cutting edge of British civilization.
C) The British were dismayed by American shippers trafficking goods to enemy ports of the Spanish and French.
D) All colonists freely donated money and men to the British war effort.
E) The British refused to recognize any American militia commission above the rank of captain.

Question 24

The long-range purpose of the Albany Congress in 1754 was to

A) achieve colonial unity and common defense against the French threat.
B) propose independence of the colonies from Britain.
C) declare war on the Iroquois tribe.
D) prohibit New England and New York from trading with the French West Indies.
E) gain peace with France.

Question 25

The outcome of the Battle of Québec in 1759

A) had little impact on the Seven Years' War.
B) was a key turning point in Queen Anne's War.
C) was a dramatic victory for the French.
D) ended the war of French succession.
E) resulted in the emergence of Great Britain as the overwhelmingly dominant power in America.

Question 26

Unlike the first three Anglo-French wars, the Seven Years' War

A) won the British territorial concessions.
B) united British colonists in strong support of the mother country.
C) was fought initially on the North American continent.
D) did not affect American colonists' attitudes toward England.
E) resulted in a stronger French presence in North America.

Question 27

The disunity that existed in the colonies before the French and Indian War can be attributed to all of the following EXCEPT

A) the enormous distances between the colonies.
B) geographical barriers like rivers.
C) conflicting religions.
D) varied nationalities.
E) contempt for the British government.

Question 28

When William Pitt became prime minister during the Seven Years' War, he

A) ended Parliament's practice of reimbursing the colonies for their war-related expenditures.
B) ordered a full-scale assault on the French West Indies.
C) relied heavily on the older, more cautious generals in the British Army.
D) focused on developing a successful military strategy in the Québec-Montréal area that ultimately routed the French in Canada.
E) remained popular with the wealthy but not the poor.

Question 29

For the American colonies, the Seven Years' War

A) ended the myth of British invincibility.
B) left them in need of experienced officers.
C) offered the opportunity to grow closer to the British.
D) gave them the opportunity to finally gain control of Mississippi.
E) helped improve relations between Britain and the colonies.

Question 30

Colonists emerged from the French and Indian War

A) more loyal to Britain than ever.
B) more confident in their military strength.
C) with the respect of the British government.
D) with increased authority to govern themselves.
E) solidly allied with Native Americans.

Question 31

As a result of General Braddock's defeat a few miles from Fort Duquesne

A) the British controlled the frontier.
B) George Washington was left without a military command.
C) the frontier from Pennsylvania to North Carolina was open to Indian attack.
D) General Braddock was forced to leave the military.
E) the British called off their planned invasion of Canada.

Question 32

The immediate purpose of the Albany Congress of 1754 was to

A) request the help of the British military.
B) keep the Iroquois tribes loyal to the British.
C) prevent the French from attacking American outposts.
D) support George Washington's desire to head the colonial militia.
E) block British efforts to take control of New York City.

Question 33

In the peace arrangements that ended the Seven Years' War

A) France surrendered to Great Britain all of its territorial claims to North America.
B) England turned Florida over to Spain.
C) Spain ceded all of Louisiana, including New Orleans, to Britain.
D) France lost all its valuable sugar islands in the West Indies.
E) the British got all of Canada except Nova Scotia.

Question 34

Benjamin Franklin's plan for colonial home rule was rejected by the individual colonies because

A) it did not provide for the common defense.
B) the British approved it.
C) it did not seem to give enough independence to the colonies.
D) they did not feel that they had been well represented at the Albany Congress.
E) it placed too much power in the hands of local governments.

Question 35

During the Seven Years' War

A) colonial militiamen were impressed with the seeming invincibility of the British regulars.
B) British officers roundly praised the skillful fighting ability of colonial troops.
C) British officials were disturbed by the lukewarm support of many colonials.
D) the colonists lost confidence in their own military capability.
E) all American trade with Spain and France ended.

Question 36

With the end of the Seven Years' War, the disunity, jealousy, and suspicion that had long existed in the American colonies

A) continued without change.
B) began to melt somewhat.
C) finally came to a complete end.
D) resulted in renewed acts of violence.
E) None of these are correct.

Question 37

The Seven Years' War was also known in America as

A) the War of Jenkins's Ear.
B) the French and Indian War.
C) the War of the Austrian Succession.
D) King William's War.
E) Queen Anne's War.

Question 38

Benjamin Franklin published in his Pennsylvania Gazette his most famous cartoon of the colonial era, a disjointed snake, which

A) promoted the idea that America, if they accepted the Albany Plan, would be cut apart and die.
B) promoted the idea that if the colonies did not stand united against France, they would fall apart and die.
C) argued that the British would cut apart the French (like the snake) once the Albany Plan was accepted.
D) implied that the French was like the snake, waiting to be cut apart by the Albany Plan.
E) promoted the idea that the French, if they accepted the Albany Plan, would join forces with the British and be united, unlike the disjointed snake.

Question 39

The British invasion of Canada in 1756 during the Seven Years' War

A) was initially hampered significantly by poor strategic decision making by Britain's war leaders.
B) concentrated on Quebec and Montreal.
C) was prompted, in part, by the fact that in 1756 the undeclared war in America had merged into a world conflict.
D) was an immediate and universally successful military operation.
E) resulted in British control of the St. Lawrence River.

Question 40

In the colonial wars before 1754, Americans

A) functioned as a unified fighting force.
B) received more support from France than Britain.
C) demonstrated an astonishing lack of unity.
D) were not involved in combat.
E) rarely involved Indians in the fighting.

Question 41

The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to

A) raise money to support new military forces needed for colonial defense.
B) punish the American colonists.
C) reduce the number of printed documents in America.
D) enable tax collectors to become wealthy.
E) raise taxes to a higher level than in Britain.

Question 42

Before 1763, the Navigation Laws

A) were enforced heavily in the American colonies and were very effective.
B) hurt Great Britain more than the American colonies.
C) were a great burden to only India.
D) discouraged smuggling by American colonial merchants.
E) were only loosely enforced in the American colonies.

Question 43

France had to give up its vision of a North American New France when

A) its fishing industry faltered.
B) farming proved to be unprofitable.
C) King Louis XIV died.
D) it was defeated by the British in 1713 and 1763.
E) it could not entice enough settlers to America.

Question 44

In a sense, the history of the United States began with the

A) Revolutionary War.
B) July 4, 1776, signing of the Declaration of Independence.
C) Boston Tea Party.
D) founding of the first colony in 1607.
E) fall of Quebec and Montreal.

Question 45

With the British and American victory in the Seven Years' War

A) the American colonies grew closer to Britain.
B) Americans now feared the Spanish.
C) a new spirit of independence arose, as the French threat disappeared.
D) the Indians were stopped from ever again launching a deadly attack against whites.
E) the British no longer retaliated against the Indians.

Question 46

Despite some economic benefits of the mercantile system, the American colonists generally disliked it because it

A) forced the South into a one-crop economy.
B) favored the northern over the southern colonies.
C) required American colonists to display a measure of economic initiative and self-sufficiency as they were unable to demonstrate trading in international economic markets.
D) stifled economic initiative and imposed a rankling dependency on British government agents and creditors.
E) forced them to sell their products to other countries at a reduced price.

Question 47

With the military defeat of Chief Pontiac and his western Indian alliance, the British decided to

A) stabilize Indian-white relations.
B) let the colonists assume financial responsibility for defending themselves.
C) remove troops stationed in the colonies.
D) enlist the aid of France to halt the Indian menace.
E) open land west of the Appalachian Mountains to settlement.

Question 48

Assuming charge of colonial policy and implementing more politically and economically coercive policies towards the American colonies, a new relationship between Britain and its American colonies was initiated in 1763 by Prime Minister ____________.

A) Charles Townshend
B) George Grenville
C) Lord North
D) William Pitt
E) King George III

Question 49

The Proclamation of 1763 was designed mainly to

A) oppress the colonists.
B) punish the Indians.
C) show the power of Parliament.
D) allow western settlement by the colonists.
E) work out a fair settlement of the Indian problem and prevent another bloody Indian eruption like Pontiac's uprising.

Question 50

All of the following were direct benefits reaped by the Americans from the mercantile system of Britain EXCEPT

A) British allowed the Americans to freely trade with other countries and compete on the open market.
B) London paid high prices for ship parts to American producers.
C) Virginia tobacco planters enjoyed a monopoly in the British market.
D) protection of the world's mightiest navy and army without a penny of cost.
E) some British merchants were not allowed to compete with the American colonial merchants.

Question 51

Chief Pontiac decided to try to drive the British out of the Ohio Valley because

A) the British were weak as a result of the Seven Years' War.
B) the British had deliberately infected Indians with smallpox.
C) of the Proclamation of 1763.
D) the Indians were in a precarious position.
E) the French government had promised to help.

Question 52

In the wake of the Proclamation of 1763

A) American colonists obeyed the law they hated.
B) British relations with France improved.
C) relations between the American colonies and the British government improved.
D) the American colonies believed their destiny had been destroyed.
E) American colonists moved west, defying the Proclamation.

Question 53

The British Crown's royal veto of colonial legislation

A) was used frequently to overturn laws passed in colonial assemblies.
B) prohibited colonists from conducting the slave trade.
C) was what finally provoked the War of Independence.
D) was used sparingly by the British Parliament.
E) was opposed by many members of the British Parliament.

Question 54

When colonists shouted, "No taxation without representation," they were denying Parliament's power to

A) legislate for the colonies in any matter whatsoever.
B) levy revenue-raising taxes on the colonies.
C) enforce the old Navigation Laws.
D) regulate trade in the empire.
E) choose colonial legislators who would pass taxes.

Question 55

The first law ever passed by Parliament for raising tax revenues in the colonies for the crown was the

A) Stamp Act.
B) Declaratory Act.
C) Townshend Acts.
D) Quartering Act.
E) Sugar Act.

Question 56

For interior Indian tribes in North America, the Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years' War

A) safeguarded their lands from further encroachment by colonists.
B) eliminated their ability to play off rival European powers against each other.
C) forced these Indians to negotiate exclusively with the Spanish.
D) pushed them onto reservations.
E) None of these are correct.

Question 57

Under the mercantilist system, the British government reserved the right to do all of the following regarding the American colonies EXCEPT

A) prevent the colonies from developing militias.
B) restrict the passage of lax bankruptcy laws.
C) nullify any colonial legislation deemed bad for the mercantilist system.
D) restrain the colonies from printing paper currency.
E) enumerate products that must be shipped to Britain.

Question 58

In some ways, the Navigation Laws and mercantilist system were a burden to certain colonists because

A) northern merchants derived greater benefit from the system than did southern planters.
B) those colonists were heavily taxed to help provide financing for the Royal Navy, which protected colonial and British trade.
C) they stifled economic initiative.
D) Britain had the only European empire based on mercantilist principles.
E) they gave greater benefits to slaveholders.

Question 59

Passage of the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act

A) led many colonists to believe that the British were expanding colonial freedom.
B) convinced many colonists that the British were trying to take away their historic liberty.
C) resulted in fewer laws being passed by Parliament regarding the colonies.
D) exemplified to many colonists the difference between legislation and taxation.
E) required action by each colonial legislature.

Question 60

The Proclamation of 1763

A) was warmly received by American land speculators.
B) removed the Spanish and Indian menace from the colonial frontier.
C) declared war on Chief Pontiac and his fierce warriors.
D) prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
E) opened Canada to American settlement.

Question 61

The Quebec Act was especially unpopular in the American colonies because it did all of the following EXCEPT

A) it aroused anti-Catholic sentiment among Protestant American colonists who feared the act's extension of Catholic influence in North America.
B) it potentially undermined the asserted democratic rights and institutions of American colonists, including the right to jury trials and the election of representative assemblies, throughout North America, not merely in Quebec.
C) it denied French colonists in Quebec and the Ohio River Valley the right to retain many of their old customs and institutions.
D) it alarmed land speculators, who saw a huge area in the Ohio River Valley snatched from their grasp.
E) it was regarded as an unjustified political reaction by the British authorities to the unrest in Boston.

Question 62

Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) Sugar Act, (B) Declaratory Act, (C) Stamp Act, and (D) repeal of the Stamp Act.

A) A, C, D, B
B) C, A, D, B
C) C, B, A, D
D) B, A, C, D
E) A, B, D, C

Question 63

Women supported protests against the Stamp Act in all of the following ways EXCEPT

A) assembling in public to hold spinning bees.
B) making homespun cloth to replace British textiles.
C) publicly signing petitions declaring their boycott of consumer goods imported from England.
D) organizing branches of Daughters of Liberty organizations to help enforce nonimportation agreements and boycotts against British goods.
E) participating as delegates to the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 in New York City.

Question 64

As a result of American opposition to the Townshend Acts

A) British officials sent regiments of troops to Boston to restore law and order.
B) the port of Boston was closed.
C) Americans killed several British soldiers in the Boston Massacre.
D) Parliament repealed all of the taxes levied under this legislation.
E) Prime Minister Townshend was forced to resign.

Question 65

Virtual representation meant that

A) almost all British subjects were fully represented in Parliament and elected by British colonial subjects throughout the British Empire.
B) every member of Parliament represented all British subjects everywhere including in the American colonies.
C) colonists could elect their own representatives to Parliament.
D) Parliament could pass virtually all types of legislation affecting British colonies, without assent from colonial legislatures, except taxation legislation.
E) each member of Parliament represented only people in his parliamentary district.

Question 66

The Quebec Act

A) outlawed Catholicism in British Quebec.
B) provoked outrage among American colonists because it sustained unrepresentative colonial assemblies and denial of jury trials in Quebec, setting a dangerous undemocratic precedent in America.
C) restricted Quebec's boundaries to the area north of the Great Lakes.
D) was generally ignored by the thirteen seaboard colonies because it had little effect on their relations with Britain.
E) granted Quebec a representative assembly and trial by jury.

Question 67

Most American colonists held which of the following comparative views of the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts?

A) Resistance to the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts was futile because smuggling and effective boycotts were nearly impossible.
B) The Stamp Act was more harmful and obnoxious than the Townshend Acts because the former was a hidden, indirect import duty on goods that was not readily apparent to the colonial consumer at the time of sale of the taxed good or service.
C) The Stamp Act was less harmful and obnoxious than the Townshend Acts because the direct taxes on goods authorized by the Stamp Act could be reduced or repealed by colonial assemblies and governors.
D) The Townshend Act was less harmful and obnoxious to American colonists because the goods were rarely used by colonists; the items taxed by the Stamp Act were commonly used by many colonists throughout America.
E) The indirect versus direct and internal versus external tax distinctions made by British political authorities concerning the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts were meaningless because the American colonists had no meaningful political representation.

Question 68

When the government of Lord North persuaded Parliament to repeal the Townshend revenue duties in 1770

A) the American colonists rejoiced that Parliament had seemingly accepted the American definition of representation.
B) the American colonists remained unassuaged because Parliament retained the three-pence tax on tea, upholding Parliament's asserted right to tax the colonists.
C) the American colonists shortly thereafter called the First Continental Congress into session in January 1771.
D) the American colonists avoided the tax on tea by buying their tea directly from the British East India Company.
E) None of these are correct.

Question 69

Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Boston Massacre, (B) Townshend Acts, (C) Tea Act, and (D) Intolerable Acts.

A) A, B, C, D
B) D, B, C, A
C) C, B, D, A
D) B, A, C, D
E) A, C, D, B

Question 70

The local committees of correspondence organized by Samuel Adams

A) promoted his bid to become governor of Massachusetts.
B) promoted independent action in each colony to support the British.
C) kept opposition to the British alive, through exchange letters.
D) served as a precursor to the United States Postal Service.
E) led to the Boston Massacre.

Question 71

The Quartering Act required that colonists

A) pay one quarter of their income to the British crown.
B) provide housing and food for British troops.
C) ship all of their export goods through England.
D) try those accused of theft in admiralty courts.
E) None of these are correct.

Question 72

Colonists objected to the enactment of the Stamp Act in 1765 because

A) it was a very expensive tax.
B) they believed it could not be repealed.
C) they objected strenuously to the Stamp Act's naked violation of the political principle of "no taxation without representation."
D) they opposed all taxes.
E) they desired immediate political independence from Great Britain.

Question 73

Unlike the ____ Act, the ____ Act and the ____ Act were both indirect taxes on trade goods arriving in American ports.

A) Townshend, Stamp, Sugar
B) Stamp, Sugar, Townshend
C) Stamp, Quartering, Townshend
D) Declaratory, Stamp, Sugar
E) Quartering, Stamp, Sugar

Question 74

American colonists responded to the various coercive colonial laws enacted by Parliament in the late 1760s and enforced by British colonial authorities in all of the following ways EXCEPT

A) they convened the Stamp Act Congress to address their political and economic grievances to the king and Parliament including calling for the repeal of the Stamp Act.
B) they visibly protested paying any duties required by these coercive colonial laws, including the famous Boston Tea Party, in an effort to force their repeal and regain a measure of economic independence from Britain.
C) they rejected the assertion need to fund a British army in the colonies.
D) they engaged in a violent campaign of attacks against British soldiers and customs agents in major Atlantic seaboard cities.
E) they protested and publicly assailed the use of admiralty courts to try colonial violators of the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act.

Question 75

Colonists responded to the hated Stamp Act in all of the following ways EXCEPT

A) convening a colonial congress to request repeal of the act.
B) boycotting British goods.
C) provoking violent clashes with British authorities during mostly peaceful colonial protests against the act in an array of American cities and towns.
D) wearing woolen clothes made with colonial textiles versus British cloth.
E) having colonial legislatures issue a court mandate forbidding the enforcement of the act.

Question 76

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

A) By 1773, it was clear that a colonial rebellion was inevitable.
B) British officials granted the British East India Company a monopoly in the colonies to prevent its bankruptcy.
C) Anger at the tea tax led to mass efforts to turn cargo ships around in New York, Philadelphia, and Annapolis.
D) Bostonians dressed as Indians dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston harbor in protest of the tea tax.
E) Some Bostonians supported the Boston Tea Party; others disagreed with the destruction of property.

Question 77

Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) clash at Lexington and Concord, (B) meeting of the First Continental Congress, (C) Quebec Act, and (D) Boston Tea Party.

A) C, D, A, B
B) B, A, C, D
C) D, C, B, A
D) A, B, D, C
E) A, D, C, B

Question 78

In 1773, ____ led the way by creating the first intercolonial committee of correspondence.

A) Virginia
B) Maryland
C) Massachusetts
D) Georgia
E) Rhode Island

Question 79

The tax on tea was retained when the Townshend Acts were repealed because

A) Parliament believed the colonists would not object.
B) the money was needed to support troops.
C) it kept alive the principle of parliamentary taxation.
D) it was the only tax passed by the colonists.
E) colonial governors requested it.

Question 80

The Boston Tea Party of 1773 was

A) an isolated incident of protest against British rule in the American colonies.
B) directed only at the British East India Company.
C) the provocation against the British authorities to enact and implement more coercive and authoritarian laws governing the colonies.
D) enthusiastically supported by friends of colonists in America who had economic interests in the colonies.
E) the result of the Intolerable Acts.