4: Tyranny is Tyranny

Question 1

By 1760, there had been 18 uprisings aimed at overthrowing what?

Answer 1

Colonial governments

Question 2

The British had declared Indian lands beyond this mountain range out of bounds to whites in the Proclamation of 1763

Answer 2

Appalachian

Question 3

England looked to the colonies to provide revenues to pay for this war

Answer 3

The French-Indian or Seven Years war

Question 4

Fill in the blanks: In Boston, upper-class but not ruling men like James Otis and Samuel Adams, organized a Boston Caucus and molded labouring-class opinion into ____, and shaped its _____

Answer 4

Action; behaviour

Question 5

Otis and Adams espoused a vision of politics that did what to labouring-class views?

Answer 5

Gave credence to

Question 6

This act of 1765 taxed the colonial population to pay for the French War

Answer 6

The Stamp Act

Question 7

Fill in the blank: A Privates Committee in Philadelphia drew up a bill of rights for the 1776 Pennsylvanian constitutional convention which said “an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is ______ to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness, of mankind”

Answer 7

Dangerous

Question 8

True or False: Tenant uprisings in New York and the rebellion that led to the carving out of Vermont were spontaneous and disorganized

Answer 8

False, they were highly organized and long-lasting social movements

Question 9

True or False: The Regulator Movement in North Carolina culminated in a 1771 battle which saw several hundred Regulators defeated by a disciplined army using cannon.

Answer 9

False, it was several thousand Regulators

Question 10

What frightened some wealthier leaders of the Boston anti-Stamp Act movement about the “mob” violence?

Answer 10

That it might at some point be directed toward them

Question 11

Describe the Boston Massacre

Answer 11

On March 5, 1770, grievances of ropemakers against British soldiers taking their jobs led to a fight. A crowd began provoking the soldiers, who then fired and killed Crispus Attucks and others, and got off without much punishment save for 2 who were discharged.

Question 12

These acts were enacted as a response to the Boston Tea Party, and they basically established martial law

Answer 12

The Coercive Acts

Question 13

True or False: Officers and committee members of the Sons of Liberty were almost entirely from the lower classes

Answer 13

False, upper and middle

Question 14

Tom Paine’s “Common Sense” was a pamphlet that made the first bold argument for this

Answer 14

American Independence

Question 15

When the Boston Committee of Correspondence ordered the townsmen to show up on the Common for a military draft 4 days after the reading of the DoI, rioters began to shout this phrase

Answer 15

“Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from who it may.”

Question 16

The Declaration of Independence did not attempt to change colonial ______ relations

Answer 16

Property

Question 17

True or False: According to Zinn, the DoI’s verbiage was intended to unite Americans against the British by appealing to a vague nationalism that addressed some concerns but did little to change the class disparities which had led to much of the rioting of the previous decades.

Answer 17

True