Deck 6: Imperial Triumph, Imperial Crisis

Question 1

At the end of the Seven Years' War, the Americans ________, while the British ________.

A) were suffering from war-induced economic hard times; were saddled with a great war debt
B) were proud to be British; were comparably proud of their fellow Englishmen in America
C) sought to keep British troops to protect them from the Indians; thought the Americans should settle and . defend the Ohio Country on their own
D) celebrated their contributions to victory; voiced contempt for American soldiering and suspicions of American self-interest

Answer 1

celebrated their contributions to victory; voiced contempt for American soldiering and suspicions of American self-interest

Question 2

Regarding the consequences of the Seven Years' War that led to the rift between the colonies and England, which of the following is NOT correctly stated?

A) The French and Indian threats were removed, so the British government felt they had no need to keep troops in the colonies.
B) The British government was deeply in debt.
C) British imperial officials, with a greatly expanded empire to run, were determined to centralize and
Extend British rule over the colonies.
D) Both the Americans and the British came out of the war unhappy with the way the other had behaved.

Answer 2

The French and Indian threats were removed, so the British government felt they had no need to keep troops in the colonies.

Question 3

The writers of the English "Opposition" or "Country Party"
Believed all of the following EXCEPT that

A) humans were driven by passion rather than principle.
B) politicians would become corrupt, conspiring against liberty to enhance their own power.
C) Parliament must be controlled by the monarchs and their ministers, because politicians could not be trusted.
D) history shows that power overwhelms liberty.

Answer 3

Parliament must be controlled by the monarchs and their ministers, because politicians could not be trusted.

Question 4

The ________ Act allowed the housing of British troops in uninhabited private homes, outlying buildings, and barns.

A) Townshend
B) Quartering
C) Stamp
D) Sugar

Question 5

History, colonials believed, proved liberty could be lost to the designs of corrupt politicians through a succession of usurpations including all of the following EXCEPT

A) fighting wars that would require new taxes.
B) maintaining a standing army in peacetime.
C) enriching corrupt officials through the enforcement of taxes.
D) denying the opportunity for ordinary folk to strive for the luxuries and comforts enjoyed by the better sort.

Question 6

The First Continental Congress, in late 1774,

A) renounced American allegiance to George III, and established a Continental Army.
B) denied Parliament's right to tax and legislate for the colonies (while acknowledging its authority to . regulate their trade), and set up a trade boycott.
C) denied that Parliament had any authority at all in America, but took a collective oath of allegiance reaffirming loyalty to George III.
D) denied that Parliament or George III had any authority in America, and urged colonial legislatures to . seize power from crown officials.

Question 7

The dissolved Massachusetts legislature re-formed, on its own, into a ________ Congress.

Question 8

Explain the success of the British in the Seven Years' War.

Question 9

What were the concerns and strategies of Indian nations during/immediately after the Seven Years' War?

Question 10

Describe the expectations of Americans and the attitudes of Britons toward them after the Seven Years' War. In what way did those expectations and attitudes set the stage for the imperial crisis that followed?

Question 11

What was the English Opposition? How did that tradition of thought contribute to the view of some Americans that English rulers were conspiring against their liberties?

Question 12

What did George Grenville hope to accomplish with the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act?

Question 13

Describe the evolution of American tactics for resisting British policy in the decade after 1765.

Question 14

How did the First Continental Congress steer a middle course between revolution and conciliation?

Question 15

What accounts for the behavior of British ministers and members of Parliament during the imperial crisis? Why didn't British policymakers seek more effective ways of dealing with the American resistance?

Question 16

Why did many Americans interpret Britain's attempt to centralize its colonial empire as a sinister conspiracy to enslave colonials by depriving them of property and liberty?

Question 17

According to the text, by 1776, "Many Americans had liked being English, but being English hadn't worked....It was the destiny of Americans to be American, not English."
In what ways had American ideas of what it meant to be English changed since 1763?

Question 18

Was the dispute over taxation and representation a noble appeal to the principles of freedom, or merely an issue of the pocketbook? Discuss the motivations of the revolutionaries.

Question 19

Samuel Adams remarked, "We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them."
What did Adams mean? Use the quotation to write an essay describing what some of the events were and, more specifically, the techniques Adams and others used to "improve"
them.

Question 20

What was novel and significant about the ideas put forth by Thomas Paine in Common Sense?
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