Social studies unit two test Flashcards
The ___ Act made it impossible for the colonists to pay private debts with paper money.
Sugar
Coercive
Stamp
currency
Currency
______ had a very different emphasis in the colonies than in England.
Families
Colleges
Taxes
Churches
Colleges
______ was tied directly to landownership.
political statice
_______ was a leading preacher during the Great Awakening.
Jonathan Edwards
Charles Townshend
Nathaniel Bacon
Billy Sunday
Jonathan Edwards
The king who abdicated his power in the Glorious Revolution was ___.
James ll
George I
Edmund Andros
Charles II
James II
The English ___ had a direct bearing on many documents in U.S. history.
Bill of rights
The ___ Act was a statement by Parliament that it had authority to tax the colonists.
Authority
Delaware
Declaratory
Intolerable
Declaratory
The ___ Acts were also called the Coercive Acts.
Intolerable
___ Rebellion was an effort to remove White settlers from the area west of the Appalachians.
Paxton’s
Powhatan’s
Townshend’s
Pontiac’s
Pontiac’s
The ___ Act placed a tax on paper used for certain purposes.
stamp
The word “itinerant” means ___.
traveling or journeying, especially on a circuit
The leader of the rebellion against Governor Berkeley was ___.
Nathaniel Bacon
Though the colonists were on the western side of the Atlantic, they were still ___.
Englishmen
___ was called the “Gibraltar of North America.”
Louisburg
called for a boycott of all British imports
Samuel Adams
lawyer who defended soldiers after the Boston Massacre
john adames
Chancellor of the Exchequer who led the Parliament in passing unpopular acts
Charles Townshend
The ___ Act did away with the right of smugglers to a trial by jury.
sugar act
abuse of unrestrained government power
tyrant
money; something used as money or a medium of exchange
currency
The definition of “boycott” is ___.
an agreement to abstain from buying in order to force the sellers to be reasonable
