The Unfinished Nation Chapter 4
Which group of Native Americans actively worked on behalf of the Proclamation of 1763?
Cherokee
Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by passing the ____ Acts, which Americans referred to as the ____ Acts
Coercive, Intolerable
The Mutiny Act of 1765 required
Colonists to help provision and maintain the British army stationed in America.
What was the most important effect on the Mutiny Act, the Sugar Act, and the Currency Act on the colonists?
Colonists viewed them as an attack on colonial political power.
The ____ Propositions contained provisions for colonial self-taxation.
Conciliatory
After the Iroquois granted trading alliances to the British, the French responded by
Constructing new fortresses in the Ohio Valley
The First Continental Congress wanted to stop all trade with Great Britain by
Creating a series of boycotts
Women participated in the colonial resistance in part through the
Daughters of Liberty
The Day-to-day administration of colonial affairs by England's government in the 1700's 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 French and Indian War began when George Washington attacked a detachment near Fort _____ in what is now ______
Duquesne; Pittsburgh
The British army's practice of _______ of colonists into military service led colonies to question English interference in colonial affairs.
Impressment
The first phase of the French and Indian War began when
The French attacked Fort Necessity
The ______ ______ of five nations represented the most powerful native presence in the Ohio Valley.
Iroquois Confederacy
The Coercive Acts were intended to ____ Massachusetts
Isolate
The French had better relations with native North American peoples than the English because the French
did not challenge native social customs
Which of the following describes the general nature of the internal rebellions that occurred in the colonies in the 1760's?
farmers against landowners
The Citizen-soldiers of Massachusetts were known as
minutemen
The period between the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party is best characterized as a time of
relative calm
Which of the following was not one of the concessions William Pitt made in the third phase of war?
reparations for loss of life or property as a result of fighting
The British adhered to ____ representation, whereby everyone had a voice in Parliament, even if they had no elected representatives.
virtual
Both the French and the English knew that the struggle to control North America would be determined in large part by
winning the allegiance of the native peoples
In response to Charles Townshend's attempt to tax and control the flow of goods, Boston merchants helped organize an _____ of all goods subject to the tax.
Boycott
Which of the following statements about the English constitution is not correct?
It establishes fixed, unchangeable rules presented in a codified list.
Under the provisions of the Tea Act of 1773,
Britain's East India Company could directly export its product to the colonies without paying the same taxes as colonial merchants
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
The fall of Quebec in 1759 marked the
Beginning of the end of the war
The Events of March 5,1770, when a group of British soldiers opened fire on a crowd, are known as the
Boston Massacre
In the summer of 1765, members of this newly organized group terrorized agents attempting to enforce the Stamp Act
Sons of Liberty
The ______ Act imposed a tax on printed documents.
Stamp Act
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
The Boston Massacre occurred when Captain Thomas Preston
Stationed troops to protect a building
The Currency Act of 1764 required the colonial assemblies to
Stop issuing paper currency
What did George Washington do in the summer of 1754 at Fort Necessity?
Surrender to the French
In Massachusetts, ____ became increasingly important centers of resistance in the 1760's and 1770's
Taverns
What did the Virginia Resolves declare?
1. Americans had the same rights as the English 2. Only the Virginia assembly could tax Virginians
In 1763, England found itself desperately in need of revenues because of which of the following?
1. Cost of many years of fighting 2. The need to administer new territory in North America
The British decided to ultimately repeal the Stamp Act because of
1. Economic pressure 2. A colonial boycott
The First Continental Congress did which of the following?
1. Endorsed a list of grievances 2. Recommended preparations be made for defense against British Attack
How did George III contribute to conflict between England and the Colonies?
1. He was determined to reassert the authority of the monarchy. 2. He suffered from bouts of insanity. 3. He appointed unstable coalitions of ministers
Although the colonies in 1754 were reluctant to cooperate, they had successfully worked with one another with regard to matters such as
1. Intercolonial Trade 2. A colonial postal service 3. Road construction
Which of the following statements about the Sugar Act of 1764 are correct?
1. It strengthened the duty on sugar while lowering it on molasses. 2. It established new courts to try accused smugglers.
In general, which of the following groups interacted comfortably and peaceably with Native Americas?
1. Jesuit missionaries 2. French Fur traders
Grenville's program succeeded in antagonizing
1. Northern Merchants with increased taxes and restraints on commerce 2. Settlers who resented the closing of the West to land speculation and fur trading. 3. Indebted Southern planters by raising taxes and preventing land speculation.
Before 1763, colonial assemblies had the power to do which of the following?
1. Pass laws 2. Approve political appointments 3. Levy taxes 4. Make appropriations
Which of the following were provisions of the Coercive Acts?
1. Reducing the powers of the Massachusetts colonial government 2. Closing the port of Boston 3. Requiring colonists to board troops
The Tea Act of 1773 angered many colonists because it
1. Seemed like taxation without representation 2. Threatened to put American merchants out of business. 3. Gave special treatment to the East India Company.
Which of the following acts by colonists during the French and Indian War incited resentment among the British?
1. Selling goods to the French in the West Indies 2. Making few financial contributions to the war.
Which of the following did Grenville's administration do?
1. Send British ships to patrol colonial waters in search of smugglers 2. Permanently station British troops in the colonies 3. Impose the Mutiny,Sugar and Currency Acts
Why did English politicians exert little control over the North American colonies prior to 1763?
1. The ineptitude of provincial governors 2. For fear it would disrupt commerce
Which of the following was true of royal officials appointed to serve in America as governors, customs collectors or naval officers
1. They tended to get their jobs through bribery or favoritism. 2. Some remained in England and hired substitutions to take their places
By what means did the French try to control their empire in North America?
1. Trading Posts 2. Feudal Estates 3. Mississippi Plantations 4. Fortresses
In 1773, The British East India Company
1. Was on the verge of bankruptcy 2. Was sitting on large stocks of tea that it could not sell in England.
Why was the Proclamation of 1763 ineffective?
1. White settlers refused to honor it. 2. British authorities failed to enforce it
Which inflammatory measure did Charles Townshend street through Parliament in 1767?
1.Disbanding the New York Assembly 2. Imposing new taxes on imports
Who was Ethan Allen?
A land speculator that took up the cause of the Green Mountain farmers
Which of the following best characterizes the first phase of the French and Indian War?
A local conflict in which encroaching English colonists fought to defend themselves against Native American raids
In the face of massive financial problems after the Seven Years' War, many British leaders came to believe their only hope was
A system of Taxation administered by London
Although they remained largely passive during the French and Indian War, The Iroquois were formally allied with the ____
English
In 1774 and 1775, who debated different proposal in its efforts to please the American colonies?
English Parliament
The Stamp Act crisis subsided largely because the
English backed down
Americans viewed constitutions as
Fixed and permanent.
The midnight rides of Paul Revere and Williams Dawes were significant because they
Gave Americans at Lexington and Concord warning of the British forces' approach
The _____ _____ led to a growing power of the English Parliament over the king.
Glorious Revolution
The conflicts among the English, French and Iroquois in North America were part of a longer series of conflicts between the English and French that began just after the ____ in England
Glorious Revolution
In the aftermath of King George's War, The Iroquois Confederacy ____ The British
Granted trading concessions to
British General Thomas Gage initially hesitated to arrest ____ near Lexington
John Hancock and Samuel Adams
On April 18,1775, British General Thomas Gage sent a detachment of soldiers to
Lexington and Concord
Lord North assumed that Americans would support the Tea Act because it
Lowered the Price of Tea
Unlike William Pitt, George Grenville maintained that the colonies
Needed to help pay for their own defense and administration.
The House of Burgesses rejected the most extreme proposals introduced by Patrick _____, a Passionate critic of British policies
Patrick Henry
George Grenville took what office in 1763?
Prime minister
The ______ was a response to fears that settlement in the upper Ohio Valley would spark war with Native Americans.
Proclamation of 1763
Taverns in the American colonies in the 1760's and 1770's were also known as
Public Houses
In 1772, Samuel Adams proposed the creation of a committee of correspondence to
Publicize grievances against England
Which of the following was not one of the major decisions made by the First Continental Congress in September 1774
Resolution that the king recognize the colonies as a single political entity
The _______ _______ were the western boundary of French-claimed territory in North America at the end of the seventeenth century
Rocky Mountains
The leading figure in stirring outrage over the Boston Massacre was
Samuel Adams
The French and Indian War was part of a larger struggle between England and France called
The Sevens' Year War
The events at Lexington and Concord are most significant because
They marked the beginning of the American Revolution
The Grenville program succeeded in
Uniting colonists in opposition to the British government
The Stamp Act of 1765 angered colonists more than other British acts because it
Was an attempt to raise money rather than regulate commerce.
Resistance to imperial authority was most concentrated among colonial
assemblies
During the second phase of the French and Indian War, William Pitt began to transform the war effort in America by
brining it fully under British control