Deck 5: Roads to Revolution, 1750-1776

Question 1

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. George Grenville

Answer 1

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Question 2

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Seven Years' War (French and Indian War)

Answer 2

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Question 3

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Louisbourg

Answer 3

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Question 4

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Pontiac's War

Question 5

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Albany Plan of Union

Question 6

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. James Otis

Question 7

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Proclamation of 1763

Question 8

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Patrick Henry

Question 9

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. George III

Question 10

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. John Locke

Question 11

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Loyal Nine, Sons of Liberty

Question 12

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Stamp Act, Stamp Act Congress

Question 13

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Treaty of Paris of 1763

Question 14

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Writ of assistance

Question 15

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. George Washington

Question 16

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Philadelphia

Question 17

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Sugar Act

Question 18

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. William Pitt

Question 19

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Virtual representation

Question 20

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Declaratory Act

Question 21

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Thomas Gage

Question 22

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Boston Massacre

Question 23

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Committees of correspondence

Question 24

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Samuel Adams

Question 25

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Continental Congresses

Question 26

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Treaty of Fort Stanwix, Lord Dunmore's Proclamation

Question 27

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Nonimportation and Nonconsumption Agreements

Question 28

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Daughters of Liberty

Question 29

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. John Wilkes

Question 30

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Tea Act of 1773, Boston Tea Party

Question 31

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. John Dickinson

Question 32

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Somerset decision

Question 33

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Suffolk Resolves

Question 34

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Regulator movement, Battle of Alamance Creek

Question 35

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Battle of Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill

Question 36

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts), Quebec Act

Question 37

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Charles Townshend, Revenue Act of 1767 (Townshend Duties)

Question 38

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. John Adams

Question 39

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Battles of Lexington and Concord

Question 40

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Olive Branch Petition

Question 41

Which of the following men was a British prime minister during the reign of George III?

A) John Locke
B) Thomas Hutchinson
C) Lord Dunmore
D) Lord Frederick North
E) John Wilkes

Question 42

What did the conflict over the Quartering Act demonstrate?

A) It showed that there was strong anticolonial sentiment in the House of Commons and that Parliament would not hesitate to defend its sovereignty.
B) It showed that there was a strong procolonial bloc in the House of Commons that was prepared to exert considerable pressure on the government to maintain good relations with the colonies.
C) It showed that neither the king nor Parliament particularly cared about the civil liberties of Americans as long as the colonies were paying their share of colonial defense.
D) It showed that the British government was caught in a dilemma of wanting to permit continued American self-governance but, at the same time, wanting to reassert at least the principle of parliamentary sovereignty.
E) It showed that King George III was, in reality, the main force within the British government restraining the ministry of Lord North from imposing a tyranny on the colonies.

Question 43

Which of the following was a result of the Treaty of Paris of 1763?

A) France lost all its possessions in the New World.
B) Most of Spain's New World empire was transferred to France.
C) Louisbourg was returned to the French in exchange for a British outpost in India that the French had taken during the war.
D) Britain lost Canada and India, while the French transferred St. Pierre to the Dutch.
E) The British gained Florida and Canada and became supreme in eastern North America.

Question 44

Which statement is not true concerning the Albany Plan of Union?

A) It was based largely on the ideas of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Hutchinson.
B) It came to nothing because no colonial legislature would surrender control over its powers of taxation.
C) It called for a Grand Council that would devise military and Indian policies and demand funds from the colonies.
D) It was organized to resolve differences among the colonies and restore the confidence of the Indians.
E) It called for establishing the capital of the United States at Albany, New York.

Question 45

What did the Townshend Duties do?

A) They required that all legal documents and newspapers be printed on special watermarked paper.
B) They set moderate tax rates that did not price goods out of the colonial market.
C) They imposed such heavy duties on imported goods that colonists could no longer afford to buy them.
D) They removed taxes on all items except those being shipped to the British West Indies.
E) They raised large amounts of revenue and helped to reduce the British treasury's serious deficit.

Question 46

Why did Virginia send George Washington to the Ohio Valley in 1753 and 1754?

A) It wanted Washington to survey the land so that Virginia could settle the area in an organized fashion.
B) It wanted Washington to remove the French from the region by persuasion or force.
C) It wanted Washington to build a series of forts that could intimidate the Indians.
D) It wanted Washington to capture the Indian leader Joseph Brandt.
E) It wanted Washington to negotiate a treaty with the Indians allowing the safe passage of white settlers.

Question 47

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence

Question 48

How did William Pitt plan to encourage the Americans to assume the military burden in the Seven Years' War in America?

A) He promised to open the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains to settlement.
B) He hinted broadly at increased colonial self-government in the post-war world.
C) He promised that if the colonies raised the necessary men, Parliament would bear the financial burden.
D) He guaranteed lower tariffs and internal taxes in the post-war era.
E) All of these choices

Question 49

How did the colonists attempt to reconcile with England in 1775?

A) They sent Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin to London to express their grievances.
B) They presented the Olive Branch Petition to King George III to show their concerns.
C) They offered to pay for the tea dumped in Boston Harbor if the British Army was withdrawn.
D) They agreed to accept all of Parliament's demands for lifting the Intolerable Acts.
E) They promised to disarm if Parliament would remove the British soldiers.

Question 50

Which of the following was not a provision of the Sugar Act?

A) It placed a 3 pence per gallon duty on foreign molasses.
B) It required that colonists exporting lumber, iron, whalebone, and other commodities to foreign countries first land their shipments in Britain.
C) It ordered accused violators of the law to be tried before vice-admiralty courts.
D) It required captains to fill out a confusing series of documents to certify his trade as legal.
E) It established that trials regarding alleged violations of trade regulations would be conducted in conformity with traditional English protections.

Question 51

How did a writ of assistance work?

A) It helped colonial merchants cut through the red tape of imperial trade regulations.
B) It allowed the British to search a colonial merchant's house without requiring proof or probably cause, when looking for illegal goods.
C) It required prosecutors to present evidence of probable cause for suspicion of smuggling.
D) It required that specified colonial products be landed in Britain before being shipped to other countries.
E) It required that colonial commerce agents provide subsidies to merchants engaged in trade outside the British Empire.

Question 52

Which of the following was not a result of the Seven Years' War?

A) The British won.
B) It created a common bond between some British and American soldiers because they fought side by side.
C) It planted seeds of misunderstanding and suspicion between the British and the Anglo-Americans.
D) The Acadians established a new homeland in Nova Scotia.
E) France ceded all its claims east of the Mississippi, except New Orleans, to Britain.

Question 53

How did Americans oppose the Stamp Act?

A) Street fighters maimed or murdered anyone who supported the act.
B) Americans damaged and destroyed property.
C) Gangs of seamen tarred and feathered stamp distributors.
D) Prominent women led a wide-spread boycott of stamps.
E) They created a congress that advocated independence from Great Britain.

Question 54

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Revenue Act

Question 55

Which statement is true concerning British tax rates during the 1760s?

A) They were considerably lower than the rates in the colonies.
B) They were the second lowest in Europe.
C) They were the second highest in Europe.
D) They were the same as the rates in the colonies.
E) They were the same as the rates in most European nations.

Question 56

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Question 57

Why is Samuel Adams significant to the development of revolutionary thought in America?

A) He argued that the colonists must resort to violence to drive the British out of the New World.
B) He wrote Common Sense which claimed King George III was ruling illegally.
C) He stressed that Parliament had every right to pass legislation applying to the colonies.
D) He encouraged Massachusetts' towns to form committees of correspondence in order to defend colonial rights.
E) He died during the Boston Massacre and became a martyr for supporters of the Whig Ideology.

Question 58

How did the British government react to the colonial opposition to the Stamp Act?

A) It revoked the act and slowly began to return its colonial policies to those of salutary neglect.
B) It reinforced all British garrisons in North America and prepared for a long conflict.
C) It concluded that the colonies were incapable of cooperating and that the next phase of imperial restructuring should begin.
D) It imposed harsh martial law on the colonies and revoked all civil liberties.
E) It revoked the act but reaffirmed parliamentary power to legislate for the colonies in all cases.

Question 59

Which of the following statements represents the conception most American colonists held of parliamentary power in the 1760s?

A) Parliament had limited powers of legislation that included authority to regulate imperial trade but excluded the authority to tax the colonists.
B) Parliament represented all citizens of the empire and therefore had the authority to legislate on all matters relevant to American colonists.
C) Parliament included no Americans among its members and therefore had no authority to interfere with colonial trade.
D) Since Parliament was made up of corrupt politicians who represented only large landholders, Parliamentary law had no authority in the North American colonies.
E) Because Parliament created the colonies, the colonial assemblies possessed no more power than Parliament permitted them.

Question 60

What did the Proclamation of 1763 and the Quebec Act of 1774 have in common?

A) They both interfered with colonial claims to western lands.
B) They both extended religious freedom to Catholics.
C) They both were repealed after colonial protests.
D) They both were designed to reaffirm French sovereignty in Canada.
E) They both imposed new taxes on goods imported from Europe.

Question 61

In the Declaration of Independence, where did Thomas Jefferson place the blame for the problems between the colonies and Great Britain?

A) Parliament, because of the oppressive legislation that it had passed over ten years
B) King George III, because of the crown's apparent intention to establish despotism
C) the king's ministers, because they had refused to compromise and had turned the king and Parliament against the colonies
D) British merchants, because their drive for personal profits had caused them to ignore the greater good of the empire
E) all of these choices

Question 62

What was the colonists' first attempt at maintaining close and continuing cooperation over a wide area?

A) The Stamp Act Manifesto
B) The committees of correspondence
C) The Continental Congress
D) The circular letter
E) The spinning bee network

Question 63

What happened in the Boston Massacre?

A) A large force of British troops ruthlessly fired on unarmed civilians, killing fifty.
B) An unpopular customs informer killed two young boys when he fired birdshot at several children bombarding his house with rocks.
C) A fictitious confrontation, invented by Samuel Adams, took place between British troops and Boston citizens.
D) Unemployed Boston fishermen ambushed a squad of British soldiers, killing them and twenty innocent bystanders.
E) Bostonians hurled objects at British soldiers, who then fired and killed five citizens.

Question 64

Which of the following would have most influenced the opinion of the average colonial American on political issues of the day?

A) Political pamphlets
B) Sermons
C) Newspapers
D) Weekly magazines
E) Books

Question 65

Which of the following is not one of the results of the Coercive Acts?

A) They restructured the Massachusetts government.
B) They closed Boston harbor.
C) They permitted certain murderers to be tried in England.
D) They became known as the "Intolerable Acts" in the colonies.
E) They established Roman Catholicism as Quebec's official religion.

Question 66

Events in the late 1760s and early 1770s helped to bring about a new consensus in the colonies. What was that consensus?

A) The government could not tax the colonies because they were not represented in Parliament.
B) The British constitution could be altered by the passage of new laws.
C) Parliament had no lawmaking authority over the colonies except for the right to regulate imperial commerce.
D) The American colonies would be free from tyranny only when they were independent of British rule.
E) Only by working within the British constitution could the colonies safeguard their liberties.

Question 67

Which of the following was the attorney who defended the British soldiers accused of firing on the civilians in the Boston Massacre?

A) John Adams
B) Thomas Hutchinson
C) Thomas Paine
D) John Wilkes
E) John Dickinson

Question 68

Why did many American colonists object to the Quebec Act?

A) It made Roman Catholicism Quebec's official religion.
B) It permitted criminal cases to be settled without the use of juries.
C) It created a plan for a military occupation of the colonies.
D) It transferred Quebec back to France, thereby placing a hostile power at the northern border of the American colonies.
E) It moved the capital of the Dominion of New England to Montreal.

Question 69

What was the purpose of the 1764 Sugar Act?

A) It was designed to raise revenues to offset British military expenses in North America.
B) It was designed to provide King George III with the necessary resources to maintain his opulent lifestyle.
C) It was designed to increase the consumption of sugar in the colonies by reducing its price.
D) It was designed to create a monopoly over the sugar trade by the British East India Company.
E) It was designed to eliminate French involvement in the sugar trade.

Question 70

What did the Battle of Alamance Creek reveal?

A) It showed the limitations of colonial militia.
B) It showed the conflict that sometimes existed between colonial governments and their setters on the frontier.
C) It showed that most Indians would not give up their land without a fight.
D) It showed that the French were intent on returning to the Ohio Valley despite their defeat in the Seven Years' War.
E) It showed that settlers could not rely on the British army for protection.

Question 71

What was the principle of virtual representation?

A) It was the idea that every person should vote on each issues.
B) It was the idea that every male should be able to select a representative to represent his interests in Parliament.
C) It was the idea that everyone had representation since the king was a representative of all the people.
D) It was the idea that male, property holders should hold elected offices.
E) It was the idea that members of Parliament represented all because they considered the welfare of all subjects when deciding issues.

Question 72

What did the 1773 the Tea Act do?

A) It raised import duties on tea and thereby caused the cost of tea to skyrocket.
B) It granted the British East India Company a monopoly on all tea sold in the colonies, thereby permitting the company to raise tea prices across the board.
C) It eliminated all remaining import duties on tea and, as a result, significantly lowered the price of tea in the colonies.
D) It prohibited the consumption of any tea that had not been shipped in British vessels.
E) It ended all tea monopolies, thereby opening up competition and putting American smugglers out of business.

Question 73

Who led the group in Parliament who opposed the domestic and foreign policies of George III?

A) James Otis
B) John Wilkes
C) John Hancock
D) Frederick North
E) Patrick Henry

Question 74

Which of the following was not one of the goals of the Olive Branch Petition?

A) a cease-fire at Boston.
B) repeal of the Coercive Acts.
C) opening negotiations to establish guarantees of American rights.
D) colonial administration by the British cabinet rather than King George.
E) maintenance of peace between Britain and the colonies.

Question 75

Who wrote twelve Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania arguing that Parliament could regulate trade but could not tax for the purpose of raising revenue?

A) Benjamin Franklin
B) Patrick Henry
C) James Otis
D) Samuel Adams
E) John Dickinson

Question 76

What agreement did the delegates to the Stamp Act Congress reach?

A) They agreed that the colonies should declare their independence if Parliament did not repeal the Stamp Act.
B) They agreed to boycott any products requiring official British stamps.
C) They agreed that Parliament did not have the right to levy taxes outside of Great Britain.
D) They agreed to send delegates to London to petition for recognition as the colonies true legislature.
E) They agreed to accept the Stamp Act if Parliament offered membership to American representatives.

Question 77

Which of the following occurred last ?

A) Townshend Duties
B) Tea Act
C) Battle of Concord
D) Declaration of Independence
E) First Continental Congress

Question 78

How were women important to colonial resistance?

A) They led the non-consumption movement.
B) A group of women established the Daughters of Liberty to protest the Stamp Act.
C) In response to the Revenue Act, three hundred Boston women denounced the consumption of tea.
D) They helped to expand domestic cloth production.
E) All of these choices

Question 79

According to the colonists, what did the American Board of Customs Commissioners do?

A) It pursued a program that was little more than a system of legalized piracy.
B) It functioned only if the British government furnished the funds needed to pay the commissioners.
C) It offered a more efficient and equitable method of collecting customs because it was an American, rather than a British, commission.
D) It was made up of treasonous Tories who should have been hanged in the town square.
E) It was hampered in defending merchant John Hancock because of British regulations.

Question 80

What was the effect of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix?

A) It led to the withdrawal of French forces from the Ohio Valley.
B) It heightened western tensions as more settlers moved into the Ohio Valley and agitated to establish a new colony.
C) It forced the Indians in the Ohio Valley to move west of the Mississippi River.
D) It prevented American settlers from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.
E) It opened the Great Lakes to trade by American settlers.