Quiz 2

Question 1

Which of these was a major effect of the Great Awakening?
1. Tighter rules that pevented blacks from access to education
2. The promotion of individualism and anti-authoritarianism
3. The decline of the Native population of New England
4. The establishment of better organized colonial militias

Answer 1

The promotion of individualism and anti-authoritarianism

Question 2

Why did the British issue the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
1. To force the French to surrender and end the French and Indian War
2. to regulate trade of commodities between the colonies and England
3. To close the port of Boston in response to the Boston Massacre
4. To Prevent colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains

Answer 2

To prevent colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains

Question 3

Why did the colonists see the Stamp Act as an escalation of British Interference in colonial affairs?
1. Because it prevented colonists from trading with France
2. Because it was the first tax that taxed the colonies internal economic activity
3. Because it imposed a much higher level of taxation than earlier colonial taxes
4. Because it was far easier to envorce than other colonial taxes

Answer 3

Because it was the first tax that taxed the colonies’ internal economic activity.

Question 4

What is the term for the Acts issued by the British government in response to the colonial tea parties?
1. The Coercive Acts
2. The Alien and Sedition Acts
3. The Townshend Acts
4. The Stamp Acts

Answer 4

The Coercive Acts

Question 5

What was the name of Thomas Paine’s pamphlet that declared opposition to England the “folly of hereditary rights in Kings?”
1. The Continential Association
2. The Declaration of Independence
3. Common Sense
4. Two Treatises of Government

Answer 5

Common Sense

Question 6

What battle is considered a major turning point in the Revolutionary War?
1. Lexington and Concord
2. Saratoga
3. Trenton
4. Charleston

Answer 6

Saratoga

Question 7

Why did the Articles of Confederation lead to a relatively weak federal government?
.1. Because the form of representation was one vote for each state
2. Because it provoked disagreements among the states that undermined the new federal government
3. Because it prevented the development of strong local economics
4. Because it included no mechanism of taxation to fund the federal government

Answer 7

Because it included no mechanism of taxation to fund the federal government

Question 8

Shays’ Rebellion strengthened the position of which political faction?
1. The Federalists
2. The Anti-Federalists
3. The Democratic-Republicans
4. The Whigs

Answer 8

The Federalists

Question 9

Which of the following best characterizes the political position of the Federalists?
1. In favor of a stronger relationship with France as opposed to England
2. In favor of a weak central government
3. In favor of a strong central goverment
4. In favor of the interests of smal landholding farmers over the merchant elite

Answer 9

In favor of a strong central government

Question 10

Which of the following was a part of the Great Compromise?
1. To outlaw the slave trade after a period of 20 years
2. To have each state represented by 2 Senators regardless of the state’s pop.
3. To alllow a peaceful transfer of power from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson
4. To add amendments crafted by state legistlatures to the constitution as the Bill of Rights

Answer 10

To have each state represented by 2 Senators regardless of the state’s population