Deck 4: Dissolving the Political Bands, 1763-1776

Question 1

The Stamp Act Congress convened in what city? ​

A)Philadelphia
B)Washington
C)​Boston
D)​Albany
E)​New York

Answer 1

​New York

Question 2

​Which of the following was published first?

A)Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
B)Common Sense
C)​The Declaration of Independence
D)​Two Treatises on Civil Government

Answer 2

​Two Treatises on Civil Government

Question 3

Which of the following events occurred in 1763? ​

A)Seven Years' War ended.
B)Pontiac's War began.
C)​Treaty of Paris was signed.
D)​All of the above.

Answer 3

​All of the above.

Question 4

How did England's George Grenville justify taxing the colonists? ​

A)He asserted that colonists derived benefit from the Seven Years' War and,therefore,should pay more taxes.
B)He was attempting to create a diversion from charges of corruption.
C)​He was succumbing to pressure from Parliament to do so.
D)​All of these
E)​None of these

Question 5

Which of the following prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains? ​

A)Proclamation of 1763
B)Relocation Act of 1764
C)​Navigation Act of 1772
D)​Townshend Acts of 1767
E)​Treaty of Ghent of 1759

Question 6

Which of the following statements regarding Thomas Paine's Common Sense is accurate? ​

A)It convinced the American public of the need for independence.
B)It sold more than 100,000 copies in a few months.
C)​It borrowed heavily from the Declaration of Independence.
D)​All of these
E)​Only A and B

Question 7

Locke's Two Treatises on Civil Government ​

A)dealt with specific laws and the consequences of breaking them.
B)spoke to government leaders,excluding the will of the people.
C)​stressed that humans had a right to life,liberty,and property.
D)​expressed his belief that a people never had the right to overthrow their government.

Question 8

The North Carolina Regulator Movement targeted ​

A)British tax laws.
B)the control of colonial elites.
C)​belligerent Native American tribes.
D)​slaves across the border in South Carolina.
E)​All of these

Question 9

The most religiously diverse colonies prior to the Great Awakening were found in ​

A)New England.
B)the southern colonies.
C)​the middle colonies.
D)​the backcountry.
E)​all of these colonies were equally diverse.

Question 10

Which of the following was not a provision of the Treaty of Paris (1763)? ​

A)Spain ceded Florida to Britain.
B)Spain ceded control of the port city of New Orleans to Britain.
C)​Britain gained control of Canada.
D)​France lost all of its territory in North America.

Question 11

What was the purpose of the Tea Act? ​

A)To provide tea to the colonists at inflated prices,gaining revenue for England
B)To cut down on smuggling in the colonies
C)​To support the almost bankrupt East India Company
D)​Both A and B
E)​Both B and C

Question 12

Which of the following statements regarding Sir Isaac Newton and John Locke is true? ​

A)They challenged traditional notions that humans had no role in determining their fate.
B)They were part of a movement known as the Enlightenment.
C)​They denied the existence of God.
D)​Both A and B
E)​Both B and C

Question 13

Which of the following describes the situation in Boston by 1770? ​

A)Boston had become the powder keg of the revolution,with detested Redcoats garrisoned in the city.
B)Bostonians directed their anger toward customs agents,burning several customs houses.
C)​During the Boston Massacre,British troops initiated a conflict with a local crowd,eventually firing into the group and killing more than a dozen.
D)​In the face of so much lost revenue,the British government decided to repeal all the Townshend duties Bostonians had been protesting,including the tea tax.
E)​All of these are descriptive of the situation in Boston.

Question 14

What occurred after Great Britain closed the port of Boston? ​

A)Residents were confronted with food shortages.
B)Residents faced severe unemployment.
C)​Neighboring towns harbored refugees from Boston looking for work.
D)​Other provinces began to suggest a Continental Congress to consider what action to take.
E)​All of these

Question 15

The situation of the American colonies in the 1760s could best be described by which of the following? ​

A)Enforcement of earlier Navigation Acts seriously undermined the colonial economy.
B)Immigration and an economic depression contributed to unrest on the frontier.
C)​Laws such as the Woolen Act and the Molasses Act ensured that most of the colonies' wealth was returned to the mother country.
D)​None of these statements are true.

Question 16

The Coercive Acts (which colonists referred to as "the Intolerable Acts")were passed by England in response to ​

A)the colonial boycott of the Stamp Act.
B)the Boston Tea Party.
C)​the negative economic effects of the Declaratory Act.
D)​the founding of the Sons of Liberty.
E)​Both B and D

Question 17

The three major parts or sections of the Declaration of Independence included all of the following except ​

A)an actual declaration of independence from Great Britain.
B)a listing of King George's mistreatment of the colonists.
C)​a rationale for breaking away from an unjust government.
D)​a demand for the British to vacate American territory immediately.
E)​all of these were included in the Declaration of Independence.

Question 18

Which of the following took place during the French and Indian War? ​

A)Native Americans,for the most part,sided with the French against the British.
B)The war in the colonies became part of the European Seven Years' War.
C)​The French eventually pulled their troops out of the Ohio Valley to protect Quebec and Montreal,allowing the British to take control there.
D)​All of these
E)​None of these

Question 19

Which of the following statements regarding the Stamp Act and its consequences is true?​

A)The act was designed to raise revenue to pay for support of the British army in America.
B)The tax could be paid either in specie or with paper currency.
C)​The Stamp Act Congress declared that the representative assemblies in the colonies had the same right as Parliament to levy taxes.
D)​While the wealthy colonists protested the Stamp Act,ordinary colonists welcomed it,seeing it as a way to reduce the power of the colonial elite.

Question 20

The Sons of Liberty were first formed to protest the ​

A)Stamp Act.
B)Molasses Act.
C)​Currency Act.
D)​Tea Act.
E)​Sugar Act.

Question 21

After 1763,Spain becamefriendlierwith Britain.​

Question 22

One strategy that proved to be effective against the Townshend Act was that of nonimportation.​

Question 23

Benjamin Franklin helped establish the first American lending library.​

Question 24

The Quebec Act granted religious freedom to Catholics in the Ohio Valley and allowed them to hold office.​

Question 25

American resistance to the Stamp Act was really an attempt to end British authority in the colonies.​

Question 26

The Seven Years' War illustrated the differences that were emerging between the British-born soldiers and the American-born colonists.​

Question 27

The Gaspée was a French warship that harassed colonial merchant ships.​

Question 28

The Ohio Valley became a focus of conflict in the 1740s,when the British and French competed for the establishment of farm settlements.​

Question 29

Although fighting had raged for two years,the Americans did not declare independence until 1777.​

Question 30

One reason for the uproar over the Sugar Act was that it took effect during an economic depression.