Chapter 07 Quiz

Question 1

What were the two ideas that took root in the minds of Americans?

Answer 1

Republicanism and Radical Whigs

Question 2

Define Republicanism

Answer 2

A society where all citizens subordinated their private, selfish interests to the common good

Question 3

Define Radical Whigs

Answer 3

Whigs feared the threat to liberty posed by the arbitrary power of the monarch and his ministers

Question 4

What corruption was going on near the Crown and the ministers?

Answer 4

Use of patronage and bribes by the King’s ministers

Question 5

What were Radical Whigs and Republicans alert about?

Answer 5

They are both alert against any threat to their rights

Question 6

What was accessible?

Answer 6

Property ownership and political participation

Question 7

What was unknown in the colonies?

Answer 7

Dukes, princes, and barons

Question 8

Which colony was planted by the British government?

Answer 8

Georgia

Question 9

What theory did the British authorities embrace?

Answer 9

merchantilism

Question 10

Define mercantilism

Answer 10

Mercantilists believed wealth was power and a country’s economic wealth could be measured by gold or silver

Question 11

What were the colonies expected to furnish?

Answer 11

Tobacco, sugar and ships masts

Question 12

Why was the Navigation Law of 1650 passed?

Answer 12

Aimed at Dutch shippers trying to elbow their way into American carrying trade

Question 13

What effect did the Navigation Law of 1650 have on America?

Answer 13

All commerce flowing to and from the colonies could be transported only in British vessels

Question 14

How did the British cause a currency shortage for the colonies?

Answer 14

Colonists bought more from Britain then sold there

Question 15

What did the colonists resort to due to the money shortage?

Answer 15

butter,nails, pitch, and feathers

Question 16

Why did the parliament prohibit the printing of money?

Answer 16

They didn’t want to harm British merchants

Question 17

Why did the Navigation Laws last for so long?

Answer 17

loose laws, the benefits, and protection from the red coats

Question 18

How did the minister George Grenville arouse resentment from the colonists?

Answer 18

Strict enforcement of the Navigation laws, Sugar Act, and Quartering Act

Question 19

Define the Sugar Act

Answer 19

raised tax revenue in the colonies for the crown

Question 20

Define Quartering Act

Answer 20

required certain colonies to provide food and quarters for the British troops

Question 21

Define the Stamp Tax

Answer 21

raise revenues to support the new military force by stamps certifying payment of tax

Question 22

What types of document did the stamp tax include?

Answer 22

playing cards, pamphlets, newspapers, diplomas, bills of lading, and marriage licenses

Question 23

How did the Americans react towards the Quartering Act?

Answer 23

They were angry refusing to comply or voted only a fraction of the supplies

Question 24

Which two acts provided for trying offenders in the admiralty courts?

Answer 24

Sugar Act and Stamp Act

Question 25

What are admiralty courts?

Answer 25

Courts with no allowed juries

Question 26

What two distinction did the Americans make?

Answer 26

Legislation and taxation

Question 27

What is Legislation to Americans?

Answer 27

Accepted the right of parliament to legislate about matters of the empire and trading

Question 28

What is Taxation to Americans?

Answer 28

Denied the right of Parliament where Americans weren't seated and imposed taxes on them

Question 29

How did Grenville respond to the protests of the Colonists?

Answer 29

Claimed every member of Parliament represented British and American subjects

Question 30

What was the Stamp Act Congress?

Answer 30

Brought delegates from colonies to New York and drew up statement of rights + repeals to King

Question 31

What was the result of being against non importation goods?

Answer 31

Woolen garments of homespun became fashionable and eating lamb chops were discouraged

Question 32

Who were the Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty?

Answer 32

Enforced the nonimportation agreements against violators

Question 33

How much did America buy from British exports and and half of British shipping?

Answer 33

One quarter and one half

Question 34

What did the Parliament pass after repealing the Stamp Act?

Answer 34

Declaratory Act or the right to bind the colonies in all cases whatsoever

Question 35

What constitutional principle did the British government not yield?

Answer 35

Absolute and unqualified sovereignty over its North American colonies

Question 36

Who persuaded the Parliament to pass the Townshend Acts?

Answer 36

Charles

Question 37

Define the Townshend Acts

Answer 37

Light import duty on glass, white lead, paper, paint and tea

Question 38

What was the purpose of the Townshend Acts?

Answer 38

To pay the salaries of the royal governors and judges in America

Question 39

Where was smuggled tea for cheaper price more common after the Townshend Acts were passed?

Answer 39

Massachusetts

Question 40

What happened during the Boston Massacre?

Answer 40

Some people were taunting the redcoats by throwing snowballs and ended up firing and killing

Question 41

Who was one of the first to die in Boston Massacre?

Answer 41

Crispus Attucks a mulatto leader of a mob

Question 42

What was kept after the Parliament repealed the Townshend Acts?

Answer 42

three-pence tax on tea to keep the right of taxation on the colonies

Question 43

What did Samuel Adams organize?

Answer 43

Committees of correspondence

Question 44

What did the London government do when the British East India Company was about to face bankruptcy?

Answer 44

Helped it sell the coveted leaves more cheaply then before

Question 45

How did the Colonists react towards the prices of the leaves?

Answer 45

Angry because they saw it as having to swallow the principle of the detested tax

Question 46

How did the colonies react with the shipping of tea?

Answer 46

Philadelphia and New York return the tea back, At Annapolis - Marylanders burn the tea, Charleston - South Carolina tea was seized for nonpayment duties

Question 47

What happened as of a result of Thomas Hutchinson ordering the tea ships to not clear Boston harbor until they unloaded their cargos?

Answer 47

Some boston people dressed as Natives overthrew the tea into the Atlantic ocean

Question 48

How did the parliament respond towards the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 48

Passed a series of acts such as Boston Port Act, Intolerable Acts, another Quartering Act, and Quebec Act

Question 49

What was the Boston Port Act?

Answer 49

It closed the harbor until damages were paid and order could be ensured

Question 50

What was the Intolerable Acts?

Answer 50

The chartered rights of Massachusetts were swept away

Question 51

What was the Quebec Act?

Answer 51

Permitted the French their Catholic religion and territory was now extended southward to the Ohio River

Question 52

What was the First Continental Congress?

Answer 52

Twelve of the thirteen colonies except Georgia sent men to Philadelphia to discuss

Question 53

Who were the memorable people at the First Continental Congress?

Answer 53

Samuel Adams, John Adams, George Washington and Patrick Henry

Question 54

Who swayed his colleagues to a revolution?

Answer 54

John Adams

Question 55

What was the result of the First Continental Congress?

Answer 55

Declaration of Rights, Appeals, and The Association

Question 56

What is The Association?

Answer 56

Complete boycott of British goods (nonimportation, nonexportation, and nonconsumption)

Question 57

Where did the British commander send troops to?

Answer 57

Lexington and Concord

Question 58

The British enrolled who?

Answer 58

American loyalists and Natives

Question 59

Which two countries had it out for Great Britain?

Answer 59

Ireland and the French

Question 60

Who was made a major general at the age of nineteen?

Answer 60

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 61

What was the result of inflation?

Answer 61

Families of the soldiers such as husbands and fathers deserted

Question 62

Who did America depend on for military supplies?

Answer 62

Britain

Question 63

What happened at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania?

Answer 63

American soldiers went without bread for three days and were almost naked due to shortage of clothing

Question 64

Who were the camp followers?

Answer 64

Women who cooked and sewed in exchange for money from troops

Question 65

Who was Baron Von Steuban?

Answer 65

A german who spoke no English but helped the soliders out

Question 66

Where did African Americans mostly fight at?

Answer 66

Trenton, Brandywine, and Saratoga

Question 67

What other positions did African Americans partake in the war?

Answer 67

Cookies, guides, spies, drivers, and road builders

Question 68

Who promised freedom in return of fighting in the war on the British side?

Answer 68

Lord Dunmore, a royal governor