Chapter 4 APUSH

The sugar act of 1764 was designed to

Damage the market for sugar grown in the colonies Eliminate the illegal sugar trade among the colonies,the French, and the West Indies Establish a new vice-admiralty courts in America to try accused smugglers Lower the colonial duty on molasses ALL THE ANSWERS ARE CORRECT!!!!

According to the terms of the peace of Paris 1763

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

The French and Indian War was fought in

India, The west Indies, Europe, The north American interior... All the answers are correct

In North America during the eighteenth century, the most powerful Native group was the

Iroquois.

Which of the following statements regarding the coercive Acts is true?

Massachusetts became a martyr in the cause of resistance

The events of Lexington and Concord

Occurred before there was a formal American declaration of independence.

In the Years After the Glorious Revolution, political power in England increasingly shifted towards

Parliament

The leading colonial figure in the Boston Massacre was

Samuel Adams

During the first stage (1754-1756) of the French and Indian War,

The Iroquois were allied with the English but remained largely passive

The Townshend Duties of 1767

Were taxes on what ere called external transactions

In the eighteenth century, the English constitution was

an unwritten document.

The "Virginia Resolves" stated that

anyone who supported the right of Parliament to tax was an enemy of the colony

When he became British prime minister George Greenville

believed the American colonists had been indulged for far too long

In 1774, The first Continental Congress

called for the repeal of all oppressive legislation passed since 1763.

In North America, as a result of the seven years war England

confirmed its commercial supremacy and increased its political control of the settled regions.

At the time of the battles of Lexington and Concord, General Thomas Gage, the commander of the British garrison in Boston,

considered his army too small to act without reinforcements

In the 1760's "country Whigs" were English colonists who

considered the British government to be corrupt and opressive

The Paxton boys and the regulars both

demanded tax relief

The French and Indian War in North America

demonstrated that increasing England control over the colonies would not be easy

By the 1750's, American colonial assemblies

exercised a significant degree of authority to levy taxes.

King George's War

failed to resolve European conflicts in North America

The Tea Act of 1773

followed a few years of relative calm between England and the American colonies, lowered the price of tea for American colonists, was intended to benefit a private British company, provided no new tax on tea ALL THESE ANSWERS ARE CORRECT !!!!

The Quebec Act

granted political rights to Roman Catholics

For Indians in North America, British victory in the French and Indian War

had disastrous effect on their future

The stamp act of 1765

helped to unite the colonies in opposition to the English government

Following the conclusion of the French and Indian War

many colonist resented England's interference in their local affairs.

Colonial protests against the Townshend Duties resulted in

many colonists joining in non-importation agreements

Many colonists believed the legislation passed by the Greenville ministry in 1764-1765

meant the British were trying to take away their tradition of self government

Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by

reducing the powers of self-government in Massachusetts

In the aftermath of King George's War

relations among the English, French, and Iroquois deteriorated

The stamp act of 1765

required colonists to pay taxes on most printed documents

In 1766, in response to colonial protests against the Stamp act, the British government

rescinded the Stamp Act

The proposed Albany Plan of 1754

revealed the difficulties colonies had in cooperating with each other.

In the eighteenth century, under the English governments theory of representation

the American colonies were represented in Parliament

Taverns were important in the growth of revolutionary sentiment because

they become central meeting places discuss ideas about resistance

The treaty of Utrecht in 1713

transferred territory from the French to the English in North America

The Boston Tea Party of December 1773

triggered acts of resistance in other colonial cities and took place after Bostonian failed to turn away ships laden with tea

The Declaratory act of 1766

was a sweeping assertion of Parliament's authority over the colonies

In 1775, the Conciliatory Propositions

was an appeal by the British government to colonial moderates

The colonial boycott on tea in 1773

was led by women, who were the primary consumers of tea

During the first half of the eighteenth century, England's administration of the colonies

was loose, decentralized, and inefficient

The Mutiny (or quartering) Act of 1765

was regarded by objecting colonists as a form of taxation without consent

The proclomation of 1763

was supported by many Indian tribes

The Boston Massacre

was transformed by some colonists into a symbol of British oppression