REAL QUESTIONS

Question 1

According to textbook, how did women participare in protesting the Townshend Acts

Answer 1

Spinning homespun clothing to aid the trade boycott

Question 2

According to textbook, How did colonist respond to the repeal of the Stamp Act

Answer 2

Praising Parliment and King George III

Question 3

According to textbook, the coercive or intolerable acts includecd 4 specific laws. First was the boston port act. The other 3 are all of the following except.

Answer 3

Glass Act

Question 4

According to textbook, the “Declaration of Rights and Grievences” produced by the Continintal Congress included which of the following assortions

Answer 4

All of the above

Question 5

The tension leading to the boston massacare were caused by

Answer 5

The presence of several thousand British soilders in Boston

Question 6

A major difficulty that confronted the First Continental Congress was

Answer 6

The fact that the delegates from different regions were unfamiliar with one another (a reflection of strong spirit of localism)

Question 7

The first continintal congress took all of the following actions EXCEPT

Answer 7

calling for a complete separation from Great Britian

Question 8

Most signifigant consequence of the Seven Years War was

Answer 8

It left Britian with enormous debt

Question 9

Which one of the following was NOT a major problem facing the British at the end of the French and Indian War

Answer 9

French territorial holdings in North America

Question 10

Why did colonist oppose the Tea Act

Answer 10

It appeared to be a trick to get colonist to accept parliaments authority to Tax Colonist

Question 11

Why did colonists oppose the Stamp Act

Answer 11

They did not think Parliment had the constitutional authority to impose revenue taxes on them

Question 12

What compelled parliament to repeal the townshed Duties

Answer 12

A colonial trade boycott

Question 13

What was the primart pourpose of the Proclomation of 1764

Answer 13

To help england avoid having to pay for costly indian wars in the colonies

Question 14

The pamphlet _____ presented justification to Americans for their break with great Britain

Answer 14

Common Sense

Question 15

Boston Massacare

Answer 15

Raised the possibility of colonial armed resistance

Question 16

Delagates to the stamp act congress essisantialy agreed witu the Verginia Resolutions that

Answer 16

Parlamentry taxation violated colonist’ rights and libertys

Question 17

what of the following prohibited colonial settlement est of the appalation mountains

Answer 17

Proclamation of 1763

Question 18

In the treaty of 1763 of Paris that ended the french and indian war, Britian acquired all the following accept

Answer 18

New Orleands

Question 19

All of these factors existed in Colonial America except

Answer 19

A living and active corprate will to be a nation

Question 20

Why were colonist alarmed by the Qubec Act

Answer 20

All of the Above

Question 21

Within Parliment, the repeal of the stamp act came largley as a consequence of mounting concern over the colonists’

Answer 21

Economic boycott of english trade

Question 22

From the perspective of 1770, colonist believed that the troublesome events they had experiecnced in the 1760’s were the consequenes of

Answer 22

a deliberate plot by corrupt leaders of parliment to rob the colonist of their rights

Question 23

According ti your textbook, why did King George III issue the Royal Proclimation of 1763 and limit settlement west of appalation Mountians

Answer 23

To limit wars with Native Americans

Question 24

According ti your textbook, what was the pourpose of the Tea Act

Answer 24

Help the East India Company

Question 25

According ti your textbook, what was the most important differance between the Stamp and sugar act

Answer 25

Stamp act was direct tax while sugar act modified pre-existing duty

Question 26

According ti your textbook, why was the boston massacare signifigant

Answer 26

Tied colonist together through shared sympathy for Boston

Question 27

Ristance to townshed duties resulted in the dispatch of British troops to Boston in 1768, their presence provoked the

Answer 27

Boston Massacare

Question 28

When colonist protested stamp act with the cry “no taxation without representation,” George Greville argued that

Answer 28

each member of parlament, regardless of his residence, represented all colonist in the empire