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- 1.Before 1763 the Navigation Laws
- A.
Were enforced heavily in the Amerrican colonies an were very effective
- B.
Hurt GB more than the American colonies
- C.
Were only loosely enforced in the American colonies
- D.
Discouraged smuggling by American colonial merchants
- 2.The Navitagion Acts restricted
- A.
Shipping lanes used by the Americans
- B.
English vessels from entering Boston Harbor
- C.
Commerce from the colonies to England and back to only English ships
- D.
The use of the Port of Boston
- 3.Despite the benefits of the mercantile system, the American colonists dislkied it because it
- A.
Forced the South into a one-crop economy
- B.
Favored the nothern over the southern colonies
- C.
Kept them in a state of perpetual economic adolescence
- D.
Forced htem to sell their products to other countries at a reduced price
- 4.In some ways, the Navigation Laws were a burden to certian colonists because
- A.
Britain had the only European empire basedon mercantilist principles
- B.
They stifled economic initiative
- C.
Those colonists were heavily taxed to help provide financing for the Royal Navy which protected colonial and British trade
- D.
Norhtern merchants derived greater benefit from the system than did southern planters
- 5.Colonists objected to the stamp act because
- A.
It was a very expensive tax
- B.
They believed it oculd not be repealed
- C.
Parliament passed the tax, not the colonial assemblies
- D.
They wanted their independence
- 6.Passage of the sugar act and the stamp act
- A.
Convinced many colonists that the british were trying to take away their historic liberty
- B.
Exemplified to many colonists the difference between legislation and taxation
- C.
Required action by each colonial legislature
- D.
Resulted in fewer laws being passed by Parliament regarding the colonies
- 7.
- A.
Placed a ban on imported sugar , molassses, and tea
- B.
Declared the american coloniesin a state of rebellion
- C.
It closed the port of bostion
- D.
It placed a tax on lead, paper, and tea and suspended the New York Legislature
- 8.
- A.
Rejoiced that parliament had seemingly aaccepted the american definition of representation
- B.
Immediately called the First Continental congress into session
- C.
Avoided the tax on tea by buying their tea directly from the British East India Compay
- D.
Suspected that it was a trick to get them to violate their principle of "no taxation without representation"
- 9.As a result of american opposition to the townshend acts
- A.
Parliament repealed all of the taxses levied under this legislation
- B.
Prime minister townshend was forced to resign
- C.
The port of boston was closed
- D.
British officials sent regiments of troops to Boston to restore law and order
- 10.The most important action the first continental congress took to protest the "intolerable acts" was
- A.
Forming "the association" to impose a cmplete bycott of all British goods
- B.
Organizing a colonial militia to prepare for military service
- C.
Forming committees of correspondence to communicate among all the colonies and develop political opposition to British rule
- D.
Voting for independence
- 11.The event that precipitated the first real shooting between british and american colonists was
- A.
A british attempt to seize bunker hill and the old north church
- B.
The british attempt to seize colonial suppplies and leaders at Lexington concord
- C.
The boston tea party
- D.
The boston massacre
- 12.The british political party that was generally more sympathetic to the american cause was
- A.
The tory party
- B.
The labor party
- C.
The county party
- D.
The whig party
- 13.Identify the main organizef of the sons of liberty
- A.
Sam adams
- B.
George washingotn
- C.
Champagne charlie
- D.
Patrick henry
- 14.Thomas Paine's appeal for a new republican form of government was appealing to many Americans because
- A.
They all agreed that social class differneces were wrong
- B.
Their own eperience with democratic governance and the absence of a hereditary democracy had prepared them for the idea
- C.
They recognized that paine was drawing on the best ideas from Plato;s "republic"
- D.
They were fearfful taht southern planters like washington wanted to establish nobility in america
- 15.The battle of saratoga was a key turning point of the war for independence because
- A.
It prevented the bbritish from keeping control of the key port of NYC
- B.
It brought about crucial french assistance to the revolutionarly cause
- C.
It ended the possibility of a peaceful settlement with britain
- D.
It effectively destroyed british military power in the middle colonies
- 16.Identify the individula who was NOT a member of the Committee of Fice that drafted the Declaration of Independence
- A.
Thomas Jefferson (VA)
- B.
John Adams (MASS)
- C.
John Dickenson (PA)
- D.
Roger Sherman (CONN)
- E.
Ben Franklin (PA)
- 17.The Olive Branch Petition
- A.
Was passed by parliament
- B.
Promised no treason charges if colonists stopped fighting
- C.
Was an attempt by the colonists to gain support of Native Americans
- D.
Professed American loyalty to the crown
- 18.Identify the two srains of western philosophy found in the decleration of independence
- A.
Reverence of god with an airing of grievances
- B.
A universal call for a republican form of government based on the life liberty and pursuit of phapiness
- C.
Reverence for god and a respect for human intellect and action
- D.
A call for a pure democracy based on human reason and action
- 19.Loyalists made up about _ percent of the american people
- A.
8
- B.
20
- C.
49
- D.
52
- 20.All of the folllowing fates befell loyalists after the rev war except some
- A.
Fled to canada
- B.
Re-established themselves in america
- C.
Were given aristocratic status in england
- D.
Had their property confiscated
- E.
Were exiled
- 21.Emmanuel Leutze's 1851 painting of washington crossing the deleware celebrates what event
- A.
Washingtons atack on the hessians at trenton, NJ
- B.
Capture of ft ticanderoga
- C.
Retreat of american forces after Bunker Hill
- D.
Canadian retreat of ft quebec
- E.
American victory at lexington and concord
- 22.
- A.
Lack of pay which made th soldiers feel that the continental congress was not keeping its promise
- B.
Belief that the revolution is a lost cause
- C.
Desire for reconciliation with britain was necessary
- D.
Both b and c
- 23.The commmander of the french troops in america was
- A.
Rochambeau
- B.
Lafayette
- C.
De grasse
- D.
Howe
- 24.In the peace negotaitions at paris, the french wanted the americans
- A.
To stop short of demanding full independence
- B.
To negotiate a seperate peace with britain
- C.
Not to negotiate a separate peace with britain
- D.
To achieve political and military domination of North America
- 25.The british yielded the americans a generouspeace treaty that included the western territories primarily because of
- A.
The desire of the weak new whig ministry in london for friendly future relations with the US
- B.
The threat of further was with france
- C.
The military power of the Us
- D.
The willingness of the americans to yield on other issues like trade and fishing rights
- 26.
- A.
Folllow lead of spain, not france
- B.
Get the colonies out of their obligations under the franco-american alliances
- C.
Conslut with the colonies' french allies and make no separate peace arrangements with the british
- D.
Demand british cecession of the trans-allegheny west ot the coonies
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