HIS 101 - Week 4

The Mutiny Act of 1765 required ______.

Colonists to help provision and maintain the British army stationed in America

What action did Samuel Adams propose in response to the massacre?

Creation of a "Committee of Correspondence"

People of European ancestry born in the Americas are known as ______.

Creoles

The House of Burgesses rejected the most extreme proposals introduced by Patrick _______, a passionate critic of British policies.

Henry

True or false: British victory in the Seven Years' War confirmed its commercial supremacy and cemented its control over portions of North America.

True

True or false: The British need for revenue resulted in new policies that had a disastrous effect on Britain's relationship with the American colonies.

True

The First Continental Congress wanted to stop all trade with Great Britain by ______.

creating a series of boycotts

The day-to-day administration of colonial affairs by England's government in the 1700s tended to be ______.

decentralized

The British wanted to avoid warfare on the frontier, for fear it would ______.

disrupt trade

On the night of December 16, 1773, 150 Boston men disguised as Native Americans...

dumped the cargo of several ships into the harbor.

The midnight rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes were significant because they ______.

gave Americans at Lexington and Concord warning of the British forces' approach

The citizen-soldiers of Massachusetts were known as ______.

minutemen

In 1754, a group of delegates from Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, and New England met in Albany. Their original intent was to ______.

negotiate a treaty with the Iroquois

The aim of the protests in the last weeks of 1773 was to ______.

prevent the East India Company from landing its cargo

The period between the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party is best characterized as a time of...

relative calm.

In Massachusetts, ______ became increasingly important centers of resistance in the 1760s and 1770s.

taverns

After Charles Townshend died, Lord North secured the repeal of all of the Townshend Duties except the tax on ______.

tea

The first phase of the French and Indian War began when ______.

the French attacked Fort Necessity

In 1763, England was able to turn its attention to its American colonies because it ______.

was experiencing peace for the first time in decade

By the 1750s and 1760s, the English government viewed taxation as a ______.

way to relieve the country's debts

The events of March 5, 1770, when a group of British soldiers opened fire on a crowd, are known as the ___________ ___________.

Boston Massacre

How does Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre differ from the actual event?

It depicts the British action as a planned and orderly attack

The American theater of the Seven Years' War was a conflict among the ______.

British, French, and Iroquois

The first real proposal for a general government to rule all colonies was the ______ Plan.

Albany

Under the Proclamation of 1763, white settlement west of the ______ was forbidden.

Appalachian Mountains

To dispute English taxes in the Americas, James Otis persuaded his colleagues in the Massachusetts assembly to meet with other colonial delegates. This multicolony group met in 1765 and became known as the ____ Congress.

Stamp Act

Which of the following were provisions of the Coercive Acts? -Closing the port of Boston -Granting political rights to Catholics -Requiring colonists to board troops -Extending the boundaries of Quebec -Reducing the powers of the Massachusetts colonial government

-Closing the port of Boston -Reducing the powers of the Massachusetts colonial government -Requiring colonists to board troops

Which inflammatory measures did Charles Townshend steer through Parliament in 1767? -Disbanding the Massachusetts Assembly -Imposing new taxes on exports -Imposing new taxes on imports -Disbanding the New York Assembly -Requiring colonists swear a loyalty oath to the British Empire

-Disbanding the New York Assembly -Imposing new taxes on imports

Which actions were taken by the First Continental Congress? -Recommended preparations be made for defense against British attack -Organized the Minutemen -Endorsed a list of grievances -Signed the Declaration of Independence -Supported plans for a colonial union under British authority

-Endorsed a list of grievances -Recommended preparations be made for defense against British attack

Which of the following were among the means that the French used to try to control their empire in North America? -Fortresses -A centralized bureaucracy -Feudal estates -Trading posts -Mississippi plantations -Defeat of native peoples

-Fortresses -Feudal estates -Trading posts -Mississippi plantations

Which of the following statements about the Sugar Act of 1764 are correct? -It strengthened the duty on sugar while lowering it on molasses. -It established new courts to try accused smugglers. -It lowered tariffs on molasses to help the market for American sugar. -It led colonial assemblies to stop issuing paper money.

-It strengthened the duty on sugar while lowering it on molasses. -It established new courts to try accused smugglers.

What did the Virginia Resolves declare? -That only the Virginia assembly could tax Virginians -That Americans should stop buying English goods -That Parliament had authority over all the colonies -That Americans had the same rights as the English

-That only the Virginia assembly could tax Virginians -That Americans had the same rights as the English

Why did English politicians exert little control over the North American colonies prior to 1763? -The ineptitude of provincial governors -Fear it would disrupt commerce -The strength of the colonies' ties to each other -Enlightenment thought -The democratic ideals of King George I

-The ineptitude of provincial governors -Fear it would disrupt commerce

In 1763, England found itself desperately in need of revenues because of which of the following? -The need to administer new territory in North America -The need to raise a wartime army -The cost of many years of fighting -The outlawing of the slave trade

-The need to administer new territory in North America -The cost of many years of fighting

Who was Ethan Allen?

A land speculator that took up the cause of the Green Mountain farmers

Which description best characterizes the first phase of the French and Indian War? -A conflict fought largely by British troops shipped to North America -A local North American conflict between England and France that swept up native groups throughout the West -A global struggle between England and France a military effort, tightly controlled by William Pitt, to drive the French from North America

A local North American conflict between England and France that swept up native groups throughout the West

What was the general nature of the internal rebellions that occurred in the colonies in the 1760s?

Farmers against landowners

Which statement about the Boston Massacre is accurate? -It was used by resistance leaders to foment public outrage. -The British soldiers were found guilty and were executed for it. -Most Bostonians paid little attention to the incident. -It has been established that the incident started with British aggression.

It was used by resistance leaders to foment public outrage.

On April 18, 1775, British General Thomas Gage sent a detachment of soldiers to ______.

Lexington and Concord

How did taverns benefit those who could not read?

News was often discussed and spoken aloud in taverns.

Which of the following statements about taverns in the 1760s and 1770s in Massachusetts is accurate? -Politicians wanting to connect with the public needed to visit taverns to do so. -Women were welcomed into the political sphere in taverns, though in relatively small numbers. -Drunkenness was somewhat rare in taverns. -Taverns were the primary locales for printing colonial newspapers.

Politicians wanting to connect with the public needed to visit taverns to do so.

What was a major force that worked (unsuccessfully) against the proliferation of taverns in New England?

Puritan culture

What news might have reduced tensions—though perhaps would not have prevented it—had it reached the colonies before the Boston Massacre?

Repeal of the Townshend Duties

Which of the following experienced a major benefit from the activity in taverns in the 1760s and 1770s? -The cause of women's suffrage -The organization of militias to fight Indian forces -Revolutionary sentiment and planning -Abolitionist sentiment and planning

Revolutionary sentiment and planning

Which of the following resulted from the Boston Massacre? -A violent protest movement that destroyed British assets up and down the coast -The formation of a network of dissenting political organizations in the colonies -The first execution of British soldiers by a colonial government -A British ban on colonial printing presses to prevent the publishing of accounts of the incident

The formation of a network of dissenting political organizations in the colonies

How did most colonial literature depict the Boston Massacre?

The murder of civilians by British soldiers

What was the common name for the tavern in Massachusetts during this period?

The public house

In the face of massive financial problems after the Seven Years' War, many British leaders came to believe that their only hope was ______.

a system of taxation administered by London

In response to Charles Townshend's attempt to tax and control the flow of goods, Boston merchants helped organize a(n) ________ of all goods that were subject to the tax.

boycott

Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by passing the ______ Acts, which Americans referred to as the ______ Acts.

coercive, intolerable