Chapter 5/6

Question 1

Which colony failed to send a delegate to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia?

Answer 1

Georgia

Question 2

How did the Declaratory Act show Britain’s refusal to compromise on Parliament’s power to tax?

Answer 2

It asserted Parliament’s right to legislate for the colonies.

Question 3

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?

Answer 3

The new governing bodies were composed of many of the same men who has held elective office before.

Question 4

What did the protests of the Sons of Liberty prove to colonists?

Answer 4

Demonstrations could have a decisive impact on politics.

Question 5

What was the purpose of the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 5

To prevent colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Question 6

Why did General Gage plan a surprise attack in an ammunition storage site in Concord?

Answer 6

British leaders ordered him to arrest the American troublemakers.

Question 7

The “powder alarm” of September 1774 convinced Thomas Gage that…

Answer 7

ordinary colonists would unite for armed conflict.

Question 8

George Grenville claimed that Americans had “virtual representation” because…

Answer 8

the House of Commons represented all British subjects, wherever they were.

Question 9

How did the Stamp Act different from the Sugar Act?

Answer 9

The Stamp Act was an internal tax that affected a great number of colonists.

Question 10

The Coercive Acts, passed by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of the tea, included…

Answer 10

a law closing Boston harbor until the tea was paid for.

Question 11

In an effort to generate income for England, in 1764 George Grenville initiated the…

Answer 11

Sugar Act.

Question 12

What caused the Seven Years’ War?

Answer 12

Conflicts over territory in the Ohio Valley.

Question 13

What role did the Indians play in the Treaty of Paris?

Answer 13

The major European powers did not consult the Indians at all.

Question 14

After the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, slaves who had gained their freedom by joining the British army settled in Nova Scotia or…

Answer 14

Sierra Leone.

Question 15

Which of the following statements characterizes the effects of the nonimportation agreements of 1768-69?

Answer 15

Merchants from New England to Charleston were supporting nonimportation.

Question 16

How did the British government respond to the colonial reaction to the Stamp Act?

Answer 16

It repealed the Stamp Act in March 1766.

Question 17

The Quebec Act offended many Americans because…

Answer 17

it gave Roman Catholic Quebec control of the Ohio Valley.

Question 18

How did General Gage react to the increased violence and collapsing royal authority in Massachusetts early in 1775?

Answer 18

He requested twenty thousand additional troops from England.

Question 19

Who fired the first shot at Lexington?

Answer 19

An unknown person.

Question 20

In 1767, Charles Townshend enacted the Revenue Act, which…

Answer 20

placed new duties on imported items.

Question 21

Following the battles of Lexington and Concord, Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia, issued a proclamation…

Answer 21

promising freedom to defecting, able-bodied slaves who would fight for the British.

Question 22

Why did King George III seek to extract more money from the colonists?

Answer 22

He thought the colonists should help pay England’s war debts.

Question 23

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?

Answer 23

A lessening reliance on religion.

Question 24

In addition to their competition for land, colonial settlers and Indians engaged in conflicts over…

Answer 24

the fur trade.

Question 25

How was British North America unified?

Answer 25

Economy: mainly agriculture, good selection of food, distinct products

Declining importance of religion: focused less on religion and more on the world around them

White people in British North America called themself British colonies: even with different governments they still all responded to the British monarchy

Question 26

What was the Great Awakening?

Answer 26

A revival movement to convert nonbelievers and revive the piety of believers.

Question 27

What were the effects of the Revolutionary war on Britain?

Answer 27

1. It increased her colonial empire in the Americas
2. It greatly enlarged England’s debt
3. Britain’s contempt for the colonials created bitter feelings

Question 28

What were the effects of the Revolutionary War on the American Colonists?

Answer 28

1. United them against a common enemy
2. Created a socializing experience for all the colonials who participated
3. Created bitter feelings towards the British that would only intensify
4. Mad that they don’t get to settle in Ohio

Question 29

What were the 3 phases of the Revolutionary War?

Answer 29

1. The Northern Campaign (America tried to take over Canada but it failed)
2. New York and Pennsylvania (Washington’s battles, Battle of Saratoga=Turning point of the war
3. The Southern Strategy (Battle of York Town, Cornwallis surrenders)

Question 30

Explain the beginning of the Seven Years’ War (1754-1763)

Answer 30

1. French traders were allied with Indians
2. British colonists from the Ohio Company
3. French military forts trespass on Virginia land
4. French and Indian War begins
5. George Washington builds Fort Necessity

Question 31

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 31

British document that aroused colonial anger but failed to stop frontier expansion

Question 32

Albany Congress

Answer 32

Unification effort that Benjamin Franklin nearly led to success by his eloquent leadership and cartoon artistry

Question 33

The First Continental Congress created the Continental Association, whose purpose was to…

Answer 33

enforce a staggered and limited boycott of trade.

Question 34

What were the Sugar, Currency, Quartering, and Stamp Acts?

Answer 34

Sugar: cut duty on foreign molasses (to reduce smuggling) and prohibited importation of all foreign rum

Currency: colonists could no longer use bills of credits in official trades
Quartering: required colonists to house, feed, transport, etc. soldiers when asked to

Stamp: direct taxation of all colonial commercial and legal papers