Deck 7: The Road to Revolution,1763-1775

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Marquis de Lafayette

Answer 1

Student answers will vary.

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Samuel Adams

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
mercantilism

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
boycott

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Benjamin Franklin

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
internal/external taxation

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Hancock

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
George Grenville

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Lord North

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
King George III

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Thomas Hutchinson

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Adam Smith

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Edmund Burke

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Abigail Adams

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Charles Townshend

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Crispus Attucks

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"No taxation without representation"

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
nonimportation agreement

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Adams

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"virtual" representation

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Townshend Acts

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Hessians

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
First Continental Congress

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Navigation Acts

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
admiralty courts

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Association

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Boston Massacre

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Declaratory Act

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Boston Tea Party

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Board of Trade

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Quartering Act

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Quebec Act

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Stamp Act Congress

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sons of Liberty & Daughters of Liberty

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"enumerated" products

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
committees of correspondence

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Loyalists

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Intolerable Acts

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sugar Act

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Stamp Act

Question 41

The radical whigs feared

A) too much democracy.
B) a written constitution.
C) the arbitrary power of the monarchy.
D) a too powerful parliament.
E) republicanism.

Question 42

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 43

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 44

Change in colonial policy by the British government that helped precipitate the American Revolution involved

A) removing British troops from American soil.
B) beginning a war with Spain.
C) removing the majority of the British navy from American waters.
D) compelling the American colonists to shoulder some of the financial costs of the empire.
E) allying with the French.

Question 45

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 46

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 47

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 48

Battle of Lexington and Concord

Question 49

The American colonial exponents of republicanism argued that a just society depends on

A) a powerful central government.
B) a weak army.
C) a strong aristocratic tradition.
D) support for hierarchical institutions.
E) a willingness to subordinate private interests to the common good.

Question 50

Not one of the original thirteen colonies except ____ was formally planted by the British government.

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

Question 51

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 52

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 53

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

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

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
British East India Company

Question 55

When it came to the Revolution,it could be said that the American colonists were

A) eager revolutionaries.
B) up until the end wanting more than the "rights of Englishmen."
C) little concerned about economics.
D) clearly opposed to tightening commercial bonds to the British.
E) reluctant revolutionaries.

Question 56

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 57

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.

Question 58

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

A) forced the South into a one-crop economy.
B) favored the northern over the southern colonies.
C) forced economic initiative on the colonists.
D) made them feel used and kept them in a state of perpetual economic adolescence.
E) forced them to sell their products to other countries at a reduced price.

Question 59

Republican belief 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 60

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 61

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 62

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 63

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 64

Match each act below with the correct description.

A) A-3, B-2, C-l
B) A-1, B-4, C-3
C) A-1, B-4, C-2
D) A-4, B-1, C-2
E) A-2, B-1, C-4

Question 65

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

Question 66

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 67

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 68

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 69

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 70

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 71

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 72

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) via violence in several colonial towns.
D) wearing woolen clothes made with colonial textiles vs. British cloth.
E) having colonial legislatures issue a court mandate forbidding the enforcement of the act.

Question 73

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 74

Virtual representation meant that

A) almost all British subjects were represented in Parliament.
B) every member of Parliament represented all British subjects everywhere.
C) colonists could elect their own representatives to Parliament.
D) Parliament could pass virtually all types of legislation except taxes.
E) each member of Parliament represented only people in his district.

Question 75

The colonists took the Townshend Acts less seriously than the Stamp Act because

A) they saw the futility of resistance.
B) smuggling was nearly impossible.
C) it was a direct tax.
D) the items taxed were rarely used.
E) they were light and indirect.

Question 76

Match each individual on the left with the correct description.

A) A-4, B-3, C-2
B) A-3, B-4, C-1
C) A-2, B-4, C-2
D) A-2, B-1, C-3
E) A-4, B-1, C-2

Question 77

Colonists objected to the Stamp Act because

A) it was a very expensive tax.
B) they believed it could not be repealed.
C) Parliament passed the tax, not the colonists.
D) they opposed all taxes.
E) they wanted their independence.

Question 78

Colonists responded to Grenville's various acts in all of the following ways except

A) they considered the Stamp and other acts as a sign of fiscal aggression.
B) they protested paying any duties required by the acts in an effort to force their repeal.
C) they rejected the need to fund a British army in the colonies.
D) they marched past Grenville's home and threatened to burn him in effigy.
E) they feared the real reason for a British army was to keep colonists in line.

Question 79

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) boycotting consumer goods imported from England.
D) signing petitions.
E) cooking lamb chops for their families.

Question 80

A new relationship between Britain and its American colonies was initiated in 1763 when ____ assumed charge of colonial policy.

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