Chapter 5 Reading Quiz

In which of the following ways did the Rockingham ministry in Britain fashion a compromise to the Stamp Act crisis in 1766?

It repealed the Stamp Act, lowered the molasses tax, and crafted the Declaratory Act.

Which of the following actions did Lord North's government take in response to the First Continental Congress in 1775?

Labeling the Continental Congress an illegal assembly.

The Townsend Acts of 1767 imposed duties on which of the following goods?

Paper, paint, glass, and tea imported into the colonies.

How did British politicians respond to the Anerican's cry of "no taxation without representation"?

Politicians argued that the colonists already had virtual representation.

Which if the following statements most describes the colonial boycott efforts of 1768 - 1769?

Support began in seaport cities, then spread to more major population centers.

Which if the following statements describes the historical significance of the April 1776 Battle of Lexington and Concord?

The bloodshed that took place made further compromise impossible.

On what basis did the American colonists object to the vice-admiralty courts in which violators of the Sugar Act were tried?

The courts were run by British-appointed judges and did not involve juries.

Which of the following statements describes the Stamp Act Congress, which was held in New York in 1765?

The delegates protested loss of American liberties and challenged the act's constitutionality.

Which of the following events took place during the Second Continental Congress in 1775?

George Washington became head of the Continental army.

The Stamp Act was instituted by Parliament in the colonies in 1765; it was...

part of englands plan to create a more centralized imperial system in America.

In the decade before the American Revolution, the colonists' achieved the greatest effect by using which of the following means of protest?

Boycotts.

At the same time that Parliament imposed the Stamp Act, it also passed the Quartering Act, which required...

Colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops sent to America to protect them.

Which of the following factors was among those that motivated many merchants, artisans, and journeymen to protest against the Stamp Act?

Fear that their personal liberty would be undermined.

George Grenville designed the Sugar Act if 1764 to accomplish which of the following?

Improve colonial merchants' compliance with custom laws.

Why was the popular pamphlet entitled Common Sense significant?

It called for republicanism and convinced many colonists of the need to fight for American independence.

Which of the following statements characterizes the British government's attempts to meet its war debt following the Great War for Empire?

Parliament increased import taxes on items used by the poor and middling classes such as sugar and beer.

Which of the following describes the First Continental Congress of 1774?

Patriot leaders convened the group in response to the imposition of the Coercive Acts.

Which of the following was one reason the British sent 7,500 troops to North America after the end of the Great War for Empire in 1763?

The British government sought to prevent future Indian uprisings on the frontier.

Which of the following was the purpose of the Tea Act imposed by Parliament on the colonies in May 1773?

The British needed to bail out the financially strapped British East India Company.

George Grenville conceived the Sugar Act of 1764 to replace which of the following acts?

The Molasses Act of 1733 .

How did the Stamp Act crisis of 1765 compare to the crisis over the Townshend duties in 1768?

The stakes had risen: In 1765, American resistance to taxation had provoked an argument in Parliament; in 1768, it produced a British plan for military coercion

Why did Chesapeake slave owners increasingly rally to the Patriot cause?

They feared the British would seize control of courts and assemblies in the South if they succeeded in doing so in Massachusetts.

How did the Daughters of Liberty contribute to the American boycott of British goods in the late 1760s?

They promoted nonimportation by making and wearing homespun cloth.

Why did radical Patriots in the colonies object to the Tea Act of 1773?

They saw it as a bribe to eliminate colonial tax resistance.

Which of the following actions did the First Continental Congress ultimately decide to implement in 1774?

Threatening to cut off almost all American exports in Britain, Ireland, and the West Indies.