Chapter 4

Question 1

Whats the following concepts was the basis of mercantilism?

Answer 1

The government should attempt to maintain tight regulations and laws to create a favorable balance of trade

Question 2

Which of the following statements accurately describes the impact of the glorious revolution on the New England colonies?

Answer 2

Colonists in Boston revolted against the monarchy and arrested governor Edmund Andros, restoring their independence from the short-lived dominion of New England

Question 3

How did the prime minister, Robert Walpole’s policy of salutary neglect impact the North American colonies?

Answer 3

The British government intentionally chose not to enforce the navigation act because it was costly and difficult, and thus convinced many colonists that they could avoid economic control

Question 4

Why did the French lose their North American colonies by the end of the 7 year war?

Answer 4

The French population in North American never came close to the number of English colonists, and the French financial contributions to the empire never justified the colonies cost

Question 5

Which of the following statements about the 1765 stamp act is accurate?

Answer 5

It required revenue stamps on legal documents

Question 6

The purpose of the coercive acts was to?

Answer 6

Punish Massachusetts for the tea party?

Question 7

Many colonists viewed the royal proclamation of 1763 as?

Answer 7

A temporary barrier that did not prevent individual settlers from flooding into the Ohio River valley?

Question 8

Which of the following was true at the very start of the revolution?

Answer 8

Few Patriots were ready to call for independence

Question 9

Which of the following statements accurately describes Thomas Jefferson’s draft for the declaration of independence?

Answer 9

It listed objections to British actions and expressed the self evidence of natural rights

Question 10

Which is the following occurred at the battle of bunker hill?

Answer 10

The British suffered major casualties

Question 11

The French and Indian War was triggered by what?

Answer 11

Conflictng French and English claims to the Ohio Valley

Question 12

Which of the following was a result of the Boston Massacre?

Answer 12

It increased resentment amongst colonists towards the British and contributed to the repeal of the townshend act.

Question 13

How did the Americans, during the time of the Revolutionary War, reconcile the rhetoric of liberty and the widespread system of slavery

Answer 13

They refuse to confront the hypocrisy of protesting British tyranny, while accepting or actively supporting slave based colonies in the south

Question 14

John Locke’s contract theory of government argued that?

Answer 14

Men have certain rights in the state of nature, including the right to life liberty and property

Question 15

What statement about the Boston Tea party is accurate?

Answer 15

Americans destroyed a large amount of valuable tea that belonged to the British to protest taxation without consent

Question 16

Which of the following statements about the French con is in North America is accurate?

Answer 16

They established cooperative relations with the Native American

Question 17

What best explains the importance of the pamphlet common sense?

Answer 17

It convinced many anxious Americans that independence was necessary and inevitable

Question 18

What accurately describes the most common reason Americans revolted against the British?

Answer 18

They shared an attachment to English Civil rights and legal protections

Question 19

Why did columnist, object to the quartering act passed in 1765?

Answer 19

They viewed it as a taxation and questioned why British troops were garrisoned in port cities instead of the frontier

Question 20

Which of the following items was a colonial import taxed by the townshend act?

Answer 20

Glass