Chapter 6

Question 1

The proposed Albany Plan of 1754:

Answer 1

revealed the difficulties colonies had in cooperating with each other.

Question 2

The leading colonial figure in the Boston Massacre was:

Answer 2

Samuel Adams.

Question 3

What future American revolutionary figure surrendered to French forces in 1754 at Fort Necessity in the Ohio Valley?

Answer 3

George Washington

Question 4

England was fortunate that King George III was young, bright, and surprisingly mature for his age.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

The events of Lexington and Concord:

Answer 5

occurred before there was a formal American declaration of independence.

Question 6

Because they needed protection, colonists in both the East and the West were glad to have regular British troops stationed permanently in America.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

What was the significance of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense?

Answer 7

It informed the colonists of their identity as a distinct people and their destiny as a nation

Question 8

In 1763, Ottawa Chief Pontiac ________.

Answer 8

organized a general uprising

Question 9

The Proclamation of 1763:

Answer 9

was supported by many Indian tribes.

Question 10

Which of the following stated Parliament’s belief in its own sovereignty?

Answer 10

Declaratory Act

Question 11

Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by:

Answer 11

reducing the powers of self-government in Massachusetts.

Question 12

The author of Common Sense:

Answer 12

considered the English constitution to be the greatest problem facing the colonists.

Question 13

According to the terms of the Peace of Paris of 1763:

Answer 13

France ceded Canada and all of its claims to land east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans, to Great Britain.

Question 14

Colonists were concerned over the immediate impact of the Stamp Act, not its long-range implications.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

By the 1750s colonial legislatures had come to see themselves as:

Answer 15

little parliaments.

Question 16

The Tea Act of 1773:

Answer 16

gave the East India company a monopoly on the American tea trade.

Question 17

Which of the following was NOT argued by Thomas Paine in Common Sense?

Answer 17

Parliament had deliberately and wickedly brought about all of America’s misfortunes.

Question 18

Whose defeat at the makeshift defensive structure known as Fort Necessity began the Seven Years’ War?

Answer 18

George Washington

Question 19

Which of the following British leaders actually supported the colonists’ objections to taxation by Parliament?

Answer 19

William Pitt

Question 20

Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, and in the Declaratory Act it declared that it would not tax the colonies in this way again.

Answer 20

False

Question 21

Which of the following is NOT an example of how the colonies were beginning to seize authority a year before the Declaration of Independence, during early 1775?

Answer 21

Many colonial leaders increasingly issued explicit calls for full independence.

Question 22

Whose defeat at Québec effectively ended the Seven Years’ War on the continent of North America?

Answer 22

the marquis de Montcalm