Chapter 5/6 Flashcards
Which colony failed to send a delegate to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia?
Georgia
How did the Declaratory Act show Britain’s refusal to compromise on Parliament’s power to tax?
It asserted Parliament’s right to legislate for the colonies.
Why did many Americans who supported the patriot cause accept the legitimacy of the committees of public safety, the regrouped colonial assemblies, and the Continental Congress?
The new governing bodies were composed of many of the same men who has held elective office before.
What did the protests of the Sons of Liberty prove to colonists?
Demonstrations could have a decisive impact on politics.
What was the purpose of the Proclamation of 1763?
To prevent colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Why did General Gage plan a surprise attack in an ammunition storage site in Concord?
British leaders ordered him to arrest the American troublemakers.
The “powder alarm” of September 1774 convinced Thomas Gage that…
ordinary colonists would unite for armed conflict.
George Grenville claimed that Americans had “virtual representation” because…
the House of Commons represented all British subjects, wherever they were.
How did the Stamp Act different from the Sugar Act?
The Stamp Act was an internal tax that affected a great number of colonists.
The Coercive Acts, passed by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of the tea, included…
a law closing Boston harbor until the tea was paid for.
In an effort to generate income for England, in 1764 George Grenville initiated the…
Sugar Act.
What caused the Seven Years’ War?
Conflicts over territory in the Ohio Valley.
What role did the Indians play in the Treaty of Paris?
The major European powers did not consult the Indians at all.
After the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, slaves who had gained their freedom by joining the British army settled in Nova Scotia or…
Sierra Leone.
Which of the following statements characterizes the effects of the nonimportation agreements of 1768-69?
Merchants from New England to Charleston were supporting nonimportation.
How did the British government respond to the colonial reaction to the Stamp Act?
It repealed the Stamp Act in March 1766.
The Quebec Act offended many Americans because…
it gave Roman Catholic Quebec control of the Ohio Valley.
How did General Gage react to the increased violence and collapsing royal authority in Massachusetts early in 1775?
He requested twenty thousand additional troops from England.
Who fired the first shot at Lexington?
An unknown person.
In 1767, Charles Townshend enacted the Revenue Act, which…
placed new duties on imported items.
Following the battles of Lexington and Concord, Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia, issued a proclamation…
promising freedom to defecting, able-bodied slaves who would fight for the British.
Why did King George III seek to extract more money from the colonists?
He thought the colonists should help pay England’s war debts.
Although the three regions of British North America became more distinct in the latter part of the eighteenth century, they still shared what unifying experience?
A lessening reliance on religion.
In addition to their competition for land, colonial settlers and Indians engaged in conflicts over…
the fur trade.
