Deck 7: The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775

Question 1

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

Answer 1

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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:
"enumerated" products

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
General George Washington

Question 15

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

Question 16

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

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
mercantilism

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

Question 25

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

Question 26

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

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Navigation Acts (Laws)

Question 30

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

Question 31

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

Question 32

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

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​republicanism

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
boycott of British goods

Question 35

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

Question 36

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

Question 37

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

Question 38

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

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​radical Whigs

Question 40

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

Question 41

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 42

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 43

None of the thirteen colonies except ____ were formally planted by the British government.

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

Question 44

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 45

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 46

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 47

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 48

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 49

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 50

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 51

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 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Hessians

Question 53

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 54

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 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Loyalists

Question 56

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 57

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 58

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 59

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 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of Lexington and Concord

Question 61

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 62

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 63

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 64

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 65

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 they

A)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)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)rejected the assertion need to fund a British army in the colonies.
D)engaged in a violent campaign of attacks against British soldiers and customs agents in major Atlantic seaboard cities.
E)protested and publicly assailed the use of admiralty courts to try colonial violators of the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act.

Question 66

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 67

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 68

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; while, 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 69

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 70

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 71

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 72

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 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

A new relationship between Britain and its American colonies was initiated in 1763 when Prime Minister ____ assumed charge of colonial policy and implemented more politically and economically coercive policies towards the American colonies.

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

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 vs.British cloth.
E)having colonial legislatures issue a court mandate forbidding the enforcement of the act.

Question 76

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 77

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 78

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 79

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 80

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.