Deck 7: The Road to Revolution 1763-1775

Question 1

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

Answer 1

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Question 2

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

Answer 2

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Question 3

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

Answer 3

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Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Baron von Steuben

Question 8

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

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
boycott

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
republicanism

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Charles ("Champagne Charley")Townshend

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"royal veto"

Question 15

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

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
mercantilism

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

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

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
inflation

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
propagandist

Question 26

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

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
mulatto

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Navigation Law of 1650

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
stamp tax

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
duty

Question 31

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

Question 32

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

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Minute Men

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
depreciated

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Valley Forge

Question 36

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

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
monopoly

Question 38

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

Question 39

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

Question 40

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

Question 41

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

Question 42

What did advocates claim was essential to the success of a republican form of government?

A) A powerful central government
B) The absence of a permanent military establishment
C) A strong aristocratic tradition
D) The right of every citizen to vote
E) The willingness of all citizens to subordinate their private interests to the common good

Question 43

Which new British policy sparked the earliest forms of colonial resistance that would ultimately lead to the American Revolution?

A) Removing British troops from American soil
B) Drafting colonists into the British army
C) Forcing colonial assemblies to raise taxes
D) Compelling American colonists to shoulder some of the financial costs of the empire
E) Cutting off subsidies to American products like tobacco

Question 44

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Boston Port Act

Question 45

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Hessians

Question 46

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

Question 47

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

Question 48

According to those who embraced republicanism,the stability of society and the authority of the government

A) rested with the legislature.
B) required a fair distribution of economic goods.
C) depended on the free enterprise system.
D) must be based on a constitution and bill of rights.
E) depended upon the virtue of its citizenry.

Question 49

What did the "radical Whigs" fear most?

A) Too much democracy
B) A written constitution
C) The arbitrary power and corruption of the monarchy
D) A too powerful parliament
E) The growth of cities as threats to moral virtue

Question 50

Mercantilists believed that

A) a nation needed to import more goods than it exported.
B) imperial power was a detriment to free trade.
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) the less economic regulation, the better.

Question 51

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

A) were perpetually hostile to authority.
B) believed that revolution was a necessary step in human progress.
C) based their revolt on working class hostility to British aristocracy.
D) revolted against the cultural domination of the mother country.
E) were reluctant revolutionaries.

Question 52

In a broad sense,America was

A) a revolutionary force from the day of its discovery.
B) a place that nurtured a love for Britain.
C) completely dependent on Britain for economic support.
D) a place few new ideas took shape.
E) a conservative country from the beginning.

Question 53

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Continental"

Question 54

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

Question 55

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

Question 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Admiralty Courts

Question 57

The founding of the American colonies by the British was

A) the result of a careful plan developed by Queen Elizabeth I.
B) based on the religious aspirations of groups such as the Puritans and the Quakers.
C) strongly opposed by the "Little Englanders."
D) undertaken in a haphazard manner under a variety of auspices.
E) supervised by the British army and navy.

Question 58

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
House of Burgesses

Question 59

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

Question 60

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

Question 61

What was the first Parliamentary law passed with the purpose of raising tax revenues in the colonies?

A) The Stamp Act
B) The Declaratory Act
C) The Townshend Acts
D) The Quartering Act
E) The Sugar Act

Question 62

Why did the British Crown reserve the right to its "royal veto" of colonial legislation?

A) To prevent potential rebellion in the colonies
B) To prohibit colonists from participating in the slave or other trade without consent of the Crown
C) To protect the colonial economy from potentially harmful laws
D) To ensure that colonists did not pass laws that might interfere with the mercantile system
E) To remind colonists that the king was always in charge

Question 63

Which two acts provided for trying accused offenders in admiralty courts where they would be assumed to be guilty unless proven innocent?

A) Townshend and Stamp
B) Sugar and Stamp
C) Stamp and Quartering
D) Declaratory and Stamp
E) Quartering and Sugar

Question 64

What early move convinced many colonists that the British were trying to take away their local liberties?

A) Enforcing the Navigation Acts
B) Passing the Sugar and Stamp Act
C) Outlawing the colonial assemblies
D) Placing a British official in the governor's post
E) Arresting members of the committees of correspondence

Question 65

Why did the British Parliament pass the Stamp Act?

A) To raise money to support new military forces needed for colonial defense
B) To enable the British government to cut taxes at home
C) To impose tighter control on documents printed in America
D) To provide subsidies for British and American merchants
E) To provide funds for developing an American postal system

Question 66

Who sparked the resentment of the colonists when he insisted that the Navigation Laws be enforced?

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

Question 67

Under mercantilist doctrine,the American colonies were expected to do all of the following EXCEPT

A) supply Britain with raw materials not available there.
B) become economically self-sufficient as soon as possible.
C) not indulge in dangerous dreams of economic independence.
D) provide a market for British manufactured goods.
E) refrain from manufacturing finished goods for trade.

Question 68

How did women contribute to protests against the Stamp Act?

A) They organized committees of correspondence.
B) They made signs and other materials for their husbands to use at protests.
C) They threw British tea in city harbors.
D) They hanged colonial tax officials in effigy.
E) They held spinning bees and wore homespun cloth.

Question 69

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 70

The first Navigation Law of 1650 required that

A) the colonists transfer most of their profits from trade to Britain.
B) all commerce to and from the colonies be carried in British ships.
C) foster a colonial economy that would offer healthy competition with Britain's.
D) only specified agricultural products could be grown in the colonies.
E) ship traffic on the Atlantic follow specified routes.

Question 71

Why did colonists vehemently object to the Stamp Act?

A) It would put a heavy burden on the colonial economy.
B) It was imposed by King George III without Parliamentary approval.
C) It was imposed by a Parliament in which they had no representation.
D) It disproportionately affected the middle and lower classes.
E) It was the first to require any British citizen to pay a tax on printed documents.

Question 72

"Virtual" representation was the British theory that

A) colonists could cast "virtual" votes in Parliament without being physically present.
B) members of Parliament represented all British subjects even those who had not voted for them.
C) colonists could elect their own representatives to Parliament.
D) Parliament could pass virtually all types of legislation except taxes.
E) the colonists' political virtue was embodied in Parliament.

Question 73

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

A) forced the South to adopt a one-crop economy.
B) favored the northern over the southern colonies.
C) reinforced class differences in the colonies.
D) reinforced dependence on the mother country and stifled economic initiative.
E) encouraged harsh repression by British officials.

Question 74

During early currency shortages caused by British mercantilist policies,how did colonists continue to do business?

A) They borrowed money from British bankers.
B) They traded butter, nails and feathers for items they needed.
C) They refused to do business with anyone but colonial merchants and producers.
D) They printed their own currencies.
E) They declared bankruptcy.

Question 75

Under the mercantilist system,the British government reserved the right to take all of the following actions regarding the American colonies EXCEPT to

A) restrain the colonies from printing paper currency.
B) restrict the passage of lax bankruptcy laws.
C) require that all colonial goods had to be first landed in Britain.
D) prevent the colonies from developing militias.
E) specify that certain colonial products must be shipped to Britain.

Question 76

What is true about the Navigation Laws before 1763?

A) They made British merchants wealthy at the expense of Americans.
B) They hurt Great Britain more than the American colonies.
C) They prevented Americans from trading with countries besides Britain.
D) They discouraged smuggling by American colonial merchants.
E) They were only loosely enforced in the American colonies.

Question 77

Mercantilism provided Americans with

A) assistance with training the American military.
B) incorporation into the British empire with minimal taxation.
C) opportunities to share in the governance of other British colonies.
D) a monopoly for American planters in the British tobacco market.
E) discounts on products produced by other British colonies.

Question 78

When colonists shouted,"No taxation without representation," they were

A) denying Parliament's power to legislate for the colonies.
B) rejecting Parliament's power to levy revenue-raising taxes on the colonies.
C) objecting to King George's taxes imposed without Parliamentary approval.
D) demanding the right to be represented in the British Parliament.
E) insisting that colonial legislatures have a veto power over taxes.

Question 79

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 80

Where was the Stamp Act Congress held?

A) Boston
B) Philadelphia
C) Chicago
D) Newport
E) New York