Deck 5: Declaring Independence

Question 1

Which of the following blocked colonial expansion beyond the Appalachian Mountains?

A) Navigation Acts
B) Townshend Duties
C) Declaratory Act
D) Proclamation of 1763

Answer 1

Proclamation of 1763

Question 2

Which commodity continued to be taxed after the Townshend duties were rescinded?

A) paint
B) paper
C) lead
D) tea

Answer 2

tea

Question 3

Which of the following was formed in response to the Intolerable Acts?

A) Boston Tea Party
B) Sons of Liberty
C) Continental Congress
D) Stamp Act Congress

Answer 3

Continental Congress

Question 4

What was a goal of the Stamp Act Congress?

A) violent revolution against Britain
B) political representation in Parliament
C) ending of the boycott on British goods
D) imprisonment of the Sons of Liberty

Question 5

According to the introductory video in section 5.3,the actions of which group started the chain of events that would lead to what became known as the Boston Massacre?

A) British soldiers
B) American colonists
C) Indian spies
D) African slaves

Question 6

Which of the following affirmed Parliament's authority over the American colonies?

A) Magna Carta
B) Continental Congress
C) Declaratory Act
D) Mayflower Compact

Question 7

How does the introductory video in section 5.4 characterize the start of war between Britain and America?

A) accidental
B) deliberate
C) calculated
D) decisive

Question 8

The Intolerable Acts reflected Britain's response to which event?

A) Battle of Concord
B) Battle of Lexington
C) Boston Tea Party
D) Boston Massacre

Question 9

According to the introductory video in section 5.2,who warned Parliament that the American colonists would oppose the Stamp Act?

A) Thomas Hutchinson
B) Charles Townshend
C) Samuel Adams
D) Benjamin Franklin

Question 10

Which of the following was the site of the first armed conflict between the British and the Americans?

A) Philadelphia
B) Boston
C) Concord
D) Lexington

Question 11

According to the introductory video in section 5.2,Bostonians ransacked the home of Thomas Hutchinson in reaction to the __________.

A) Intolerable Acts
B) Stamp Act
C) Declaratory Act
D) Navigation Acts

Question 12

Which of the following did the Americans call the Intolerable Acts?

A) Townshend duties
B) Navigation Acts
C) Magna Carta
D) Coercive Acts

Question 13

Which of the following granted the British army the authority to quarter its soldiers in American homes?

A) Stamp Act
B) Intolerable Acts
C) Navigation Acts
D) Declaratory Act

Question 14

According to the video in the introduction,the American colonists became less dependent on Britain after the __________.

A) passage of the Declaratory Act
B) signing of the Magna Carta
C) French and Indian War
D) attack on Louisbourg

Question 15

The American colonists viewed the Proclamation of 1763 and the Sugar Act as __________.

A) undermining their interests
B) promoting their well-being
C) encouraging local initiative
D) weakening Indian defenses

Question 16

According to the introductory video in section 5.1,what did Britain do after it withdrew its forces from the western frontier in America?

A) issue the Proclamation of 1763
B) arrest the Sons of Liberty
C) dissolve the Stamp Act Congress
D) pursue a policy of salutary neglect

Question 17

Colonial resistance to the Sugar Act was linked to the __________.

A) settlement of the Ohio Valley
B) smuggling of molasses
C) abolition of the slave trade
D) Indian attacks on the frontier

Question 18

Which of the following was a colonial response to the Stamp Act?

A) cooperating with Indians
B) allying with France
C) settling the Ohio Valley
D) boycotting British goods

Question 19

Which of the following imposed taxes that most affected the daily lives of the American colonists?

A) Stamp Act
B) Navigation Acts
C) Magna Carta
D) Proclamation of 1763

Question 20

The Sons of Liberty and the Committees of Correspondence both __________.

A) called for ending the boycott
B) opposed British control
C) condemned the Boston Tea Party
D) supported the Townshend duties

Question 21

Compare and contrast American and British views on the events leading up to the American Revolution.Be sure to identify specific events and explain how the Americans and the British saw those events.

Question 22

According to the introductory video in section 5.5,Thomas Paine's Common Sense contributed to the American Revolution by __________.

A) proposing that a continental army be formed
B) calling for a congress to be convened
C) defending the actions of Parliament
D) rallying Americans around a common cause

Question 23

According to the Past and Present video in section 5.6,what was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

A) to defend slavery on legal grounds
B) to oppose slavery on moral grounds
C) to justify breaking free of British rule
D) to seek reconciliation with Britain

Question 24

In the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution,what did the American colonists demand from Britain?

A) protection of the system of slavery
B) preservation of Indian tribal lands
C) quartering of British troops in American homes
D) political representation in Parliament

Question 25

Which of the following reflects the same ideas as those expressed in Thomas Paine's Common Sense?

A) Treaty of Paris of 1763
B) Proclamation of 1763
C) Declaration of Independence
D) Declaratory Act

Question 26

The ideals that inspired the American Revolution also influenced the __________.

A) policy of salutary neglect
B) abolitionist movement
C) French and Indian War
D) Proclamation of 1763

Question 27

In the image,the stamp on the far right reflects whose view of the Stamp Act?

A) British Parliament
B) American colonists
C) African slaves
D) Indian tribes

Question 28

The words "all men are created equal" are found in which document?

A) Declaration of Independence
B) Declaratory Act
C) Proclamation of 1763
D) Mayflower Compact

Question 29

How did the French and Indian War pave the way for the American Revolution?

Question 30

Compare and contrast American and British expectations of one another.What did the Americans expect from the British,and what did the British expect from the Americans?

Question 31

What did John Adams and Richard Henry Lee support?

A) reconciliation with Britain
B) American independence
C) women's suffrage
D) Indian land claims

Question 32

According to the Arguing History video in section 5.6,the government of which country regarded the American revolutionaries as traitors?

A) Canada
B) Britain
C) France
D) Spain

Question 33

Who would have most likely agreed with this statement?: "That the colonists,black and white,born here are freeborn British subjects,and entitled to all the essential civil rights of such is a truth."

A) James Otis
B) Charles Townshend
C) Thomas Hutchinson
D) King George

Question 34

In his testimony to Parliament in 1766,Benjamin Franklin explained the reasons for colonial opposition to the __________.

A) Proclamation of 1763
B) Coercive Acts
C) Stamp Act
D) Townshend duties

Question 35

Which of the following shares the same view of the relationship between the government and the people as this statement?: "Governments are instituted among Men,deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."

A) "Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could."
B) "it is just and reasonable…that the several nations or tribes of Indians . . . should not be molested or disturbed…."
C) "we . . . will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."
D) "Obedience to government is every man's duty, because it is every man's interest. . . ."

Question 36

In the decade preceding the American Revolution,American colonists opposed the authority of the British Parliament to __________.

A) regulate trade
B) levy taxes
C) restrict navigation
D) control manufacturing

Question 37

Which of the following events is depicted in the image?

A) Battle of Lexington
B) Battle of Bunker Hill
C) Boston Massacre
D) Boston Tea Party

Question 38

According to the How Do We Know? video in section 5.6,which of the following points did Benjamin Franklin make in his testimony to Parliament?

A) Relations between the colonies and Britain were strained before 1763.
B) Relations between the colonies and Britain improved after 1763.
C) The American colonists are arming themselves for war.
D) The American colonists already have a very heavy tax burden.

Question 39

In her letter to John Adams in 1776,what did Abigail Adams urge her husband to do?

A) sign a secret treaty with Britain
B) oppose abolitionism and defend slavery
C) abolish slavery in all thirteen colonies
D) grant women the right to political representation

Question 40

In 1775,George Washington was appointed the head of the __________.

A) Continental Army
B) Continental Congress
C) Stamp Act Congress
D) Sons of Liberty