AP-USH Unit 1 MC

Which of the following was true of the French-American Alliance formed in 1778?

It influenced the British to offer generous peace terms in the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

All of the following contributed to discontent among soldiers in the Continental Army EXCEPT:

Most soldiers were draftees.

The Proclamation Line of 1763 was designed to

limit western expansion of colonial settlement

In the 1760s many English colonists in North America reacted to imperial governance by

protesting a lack of representation in Parliament

Parliament enacted the Stamp Act (1765) primarily to

raise revenue to pay for British troops in the colonies

After the French and Indian War, British political leaders were determined to

require the North American colonies to pay a greater share of the empire's administrative expenses

British colonists in North America objected to the Stamp Act primarily because it

taxed them without their consent

France negotiated a treaty of alliance with the new American nation in 1778 following

the defeat of the British General Burgoyne at Saratoga

Which of the following factors most directly contributed to the change between the two periods shown in the graph?

An expansion of political democracy for White men

The Sons of Liberty initiated the Boston Tea Party in direct response to

British efforts to protect the East India Company from bankruptcy

Which of the following contributed most to the American Victory in the Revolution?

French military and financial assistance

Which of the following contributed to the outbreak of the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) in North America?

Intensified competition between France and Britain over colonies

The Proclamation of 1763 did which of the following?

Set a boundary along the crest of the Appalachians beyond which the English colonists were forbidden to settle.

Which of the following factors most directly contradicted Adams' theory about the Revolution?

The existence of considerable Loyalist opposition to the Patriot cause

Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense attacked which of the following?

The king of England and the principle of monarchy

The Declaration of Independence did all of the following EXCEPT

call for the abolition of the slave trade

The First Continental Congress called for the Continental Association to

enforce an economic boycott of British goods

Britain attempted to pay for the debt resulting from the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) by

increasing taxes on goods bought and sold in the colonies

The American colonists' slogan "No taxation without representation" was a rejection of

virtual representation