Deck 5: Bursting the Bonds of Empire

Question 1

The British Proclamation of 1763

A) ordered colonial governors to reserve lands west of the Appalachian Mountains for Native American nations.
B) allowed western Indians the right to trade with any European merchants.
C) successfully ended an attempt by Ottawa Indians to drive the British out of the Ohio Valley.
D) ended reckless speculation in western lands by eastern investors.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The Boston Massacre, in which five townspeople were killed by British redcoats,

A) resulted in a speedy conviction and execution of the soldiers.
B) demonstrated the calculated desire of the British to crush colonial rebellion.
C) convinced Governor Hutchinson to order British troops out of town.
D) galvanized the colonies into further resistance to English policies.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

England declared war on Spain in 1739 because of a desire to

A) win commercial privileges from its ally France.
B) avenge Spanish piracy of English merchant ships.
C) end Spanish involvement in smuggling activities.
D) dominate trade in the Atlantic basin.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The call for the meeting of a Continental Congress in 1774 came in response to the

A) Quartering Act.
B) Townshend Acts.
C) Stamp Act.
D) Intolerable Acts.

Question 5

As a result of the Townshend Acts of 1767, Parliament

A) sent a circular letter to each colony explaining England's need for revenue.
B) raised customs duties on American imports of paper, lead, paint, and tea.
C) required colonial assemblies to pay the salaries of royal officials from local property taxes.
D) permanently suspended New York's rebellious assembly for noncompliance with British regulations.

Question 6

Following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, England

A) tightened imperial controls over its American empire.
B) entered a political alliance with France.
C) forbade colonial merchants the right to engage in foreign trade.
D) relaxed customs regulations and reduced duties.

Question 7

Perhaps the most immediately effective protest against the Stamp Act was the

A) organization of mob riots by the Sons of Liberty.
B) passage of formal resolutions by the Virginia House of Burgesses.
C) boycott of British goods by American merchants.
D) formation of an intercolonial Stamp Act Congress.

Question 8

As a result of the Molasses Act of 1733,

A) New England rum had to be shipped to England before being exported to another country.
B) New England merchants and shippers gained new respect for royal authority.
C) trade between New England and the French West Indies collapsed.
D) many of New England's largest merchants and distillers resorted to smuggling.

Question 9

The Intolerable Acts provided for all of the following EXCEPT the

A) immunity of British soldiers involved in suppressing civil disturbances from local court trials.
B) individual punishment of participants in the Boston Tea Party.
C) replacement of Hutchinson as governor by the commander-in-chief of British forces in America.
D) closing of Boston's port until Massachusetts paid for the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party.

Question 10

The turning point of the French and Indian War in America occurred when

A) the French won the alliance of the powerful Iroquois Confederacy.
B) General Edward Braddock claimed control of Fort Duquesne.
C) English Prime Minister William Pitt threw his nation's full military might into the American campaign.
D) American representatives approved a plan for intercolonial action.

Question 11

By early 1770, Parliament decided to repeal the Townshend duties except for one on tea because the

A) employment of troops had restored colonial order and respect for the mother country.
B) Americans had promised to drop objections to parliamentary regulations of trade.
C) colonial boycott of British goods had severely hurt British merchants.
D) colonial ports had erupted in violent demonstrations.

Question 12

Which of the following provisions was NOT a part of George Grenville's program to raise colonial revenue?

A) stamp duties on various colonial documents and products
B) prohibition of colonial currency
C) increased taxes on imported French molasses
D) an expanded list of enumerated commodities

Question 13

Passage of the Declaratory Act by Parliament

A) asserted Parliament's power to enact laws for the colonies in "all cases whatsoever."
B) politicized the American resistance movement.
C) demonstrated British desire to reach a compromise solution with the colonies on matters of taxation.
D) resolved the problems that had created the Stamp Act crisis.

Question 14

General James Wolfe overcame the French on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 to capture the city of

A) Louisbourg.
B) Montreal.
C) New Orleans.
D) Quebec.

Question 15

Even before the Second Continental Congress assembled in May 1775, most colonies had created extralegal, revolutionary governments that

A) created and armed militia units.
B) operated the courts.
C) levied taxes.
D) All of these answers are correct.

Question 16

The underlying cause of the Seven Years' War in America was the

A) French takeover of the western fur trade.
B) English colonial penetration of the Ohio Valley.
C) French attack on the western forces of George Washington.
D) English retaliation against western Indian attacks.

Question 17

Discussions at the First Continental Congress were LEAST concerned with

A) overcoming sectional hostilities and jealousies.
B) determining a colonial plan of resistance.
C) defining and justifying American grievances against England.
D) preparing financially and militarily for war.

Question 18

Americans objected to the Tea Act of 1773 because it would

A) raise the price of tea in America.
B) make it difficult for American merchants to compete with British merchants.
C) increase Parliament's taxation of tea.
D) bankrupt the popular East India Company.

Question 19

The end of the Seven Years' War left the American colonies

A) economically prosperous.
B) reluctant to pursue western settlements.
C) more dependent upon British support and leadership.
D) debt-ridden and weakened in manpower.

Question 20

For a poor shoemaker like Ebenezer MacIntosh of Boston, the wars of the latter eighteenth century

A) destroyed his faith in democratic government.
B) imposed economic hardships and deprivation.
C) had little impact or significance.
D) offered an opportunity for economic gain.

Question 21

In 1733 Parliament attempted to stop trading with the French West Indies for which product?

A) woolen cloth
B) beaver hats
C) finished iron products
D) molasses

Question 22

How did farmers respond to the movement toward revolution in the colonies?

A) They became immediate revolutionaries.
B) They came around slowly to the cause of revolution.
C) They supported the British side almost entirely as a group.
D) All of these answers are correct.

Question 23

By 1760 the American colonies had a population of

A) 3 million.
B) 2 million.
C) 1.75 million.
D) 1 million.

Question 24

Who were the Regulators?

A) frustrated farmers in North Carolina
B) upset urban workers in Boston
C) angry Native Americans in Ohio
D) vengeful planters in South Carolina

Question 25

How did Britain attempt to restructure its colonial empire from 1688 to 1763? Were the years of the early eighteenth century a period of "salutary neglect"?

Question 26

Why did the Cherokee sue for peace with the British in 1761?

A) They ran out of ammunition.
B) They were low on food.
C) They suffered a smallpox epidemic.
D) All of these answers are correct.

Question 27

Why did violence flare up in the Hudson River Valley during the 1750s and 1760s?

A) Tenants challenged elite landlords over evictions.
B) Native Americans burned settler homes over land issues.
C) African American slaves confiscated white-owned plantations.
D) The Spanish royal government sent troops against British colonial tax evaders.

Question 28

Much of the colonial clergy

A) supported the revolutionary movement against English rule.
B) denounced the revolutionary pamphleteers.
C) saw the revolutionary movement as dangerously immoral.
D) urged their congregations to obey British laws.

Question 29

In the republican worldview, governmental power

A) promoted public virtue.
B) controlled factionalism.
C) maintained order.
D) threatened liberty.

Question 30

Who replaced Thomas Hutchinson as governor of Massachusetts in 1774?

A) General George Washington
B) General Thomas Gage
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) King George III

Question 31

Queen Anne's War ended with the

A) Treaty of Paris.
B) Treaty of Boston.
C) Peace of Utrecht.
D) Peace of Westphalia.

Question 32

Which of the following colonial leaders argued for defiance of Parliament's Coercive Acts in the Continental Congress?

A) Patrick Henry
B) Richard Henry Lee
C) Samuel Adams
D) All of these answers are correct.

Question 33

Discuss the proposed program of George Grenville in 1764-1765 to raise revenue to reduce England's debts. How and why did the Stamp Act politicize American colonists as never before?

Question 34

Americans feared that in a republic,

A) the government would succumb to factions.
B) the people could not be counted on to act selflessly.
C) individual liberty would not be balanced by political order.
D) All of these answers are correct.

Question 35

The struggle with England over colonial rights between 1764 and 1776 revealed that

A) newer immigrants held more conservative views.
B) over time people tend to grow tired of politics.
C) colonial society was not unified.
D) colonial merchants sided with their British counterparts.

Question 36

How many wars for empire in the eighteenth century had England fought by 1763?

A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four

Question 37

The ideology of revolutionary republicanism

A) originated in the struggle of American colonists against imperial despotism.
B) borrowed ideas from English political thought and Enlightenment theories.
C) reflected common colonial interests and experiences.
D) provided a coherent doctrine to which all colonists could subscribe.

Question 38

Discuss the causes and important developments of the Seven Years' War in North America. Analyze the consequences of the war for the various "winners" and "losers."

Question 39

Who were the major social groups during the Revolution other than elites?

A) the urban working class
B) the rural farming class
C) women and evangelicals
D) All of these answers are correct.

Question 40

During the 1760s and 1770s, urban artisans in America

A) used political discontent to demand internal reforms.
B) opposed revolutionary agitation against England.
C) feared political protests might provoke retaliation by powerful merchants.
D) degenerated into radical and unruly mobs.

Question 41

How did growing revolutionary sentiment from 1764 to 1776 impact urban artisans, women, and backcountry farmers in America?

Question 42

You are a member of Britain's Parliament voting in favor of the Coercive Acts in 1774. Write a letter to your American cousin in Massachusetts, briefly reviewing the events of the past 10 years from the British perspective.

Question 43

The Tea Act was passed in 1773 by Parliament to save the British East India Company from bankruptcy. How and why did it precipitate the final plunge into revolution for the American colonies?