APUSH Ch. 5-2

Who led the moderate faction at the Second Continental Congress and won approval of a petition expressing loyalty to George III and asking for a repeal of oppressive parliamentary legislation?

John Dickinson

Which Patriot leader persuaded Bostonians to create the first committee of correspondence?

Samuel Adams

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

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

What did the Quebec Act of 1774 mean for the colonists?

That they too could lose their religious freedom.

Which of 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.

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

The group united representatives from all of the British colonies in North America.()

Which of the following individuals would have been an unlikely Loyalist in 1776?

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

Demanding that Americans acknowledge Parliamentary supremacy()

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

Boycotts.

Antifederalists

Did not agree with the Constitution; too much power to the president, Amendments were the solution to the antifederalists complaints

Which of the following statements characterizes the participation of farmers in the Patriot movement by 1774?

Farmers, angered by high taxes and Britain's demands that their sons do military service, increasingly backed the rebel cause.

Which of the following statements describes the Boston Massacre, which took place on March 5, 1770?

Five Bostonians were shot and killed by British troops who were later exonerated of the crime.

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

George Washington became head of the Continental army.

For which of the following reasons did the British government resolve to punish the boycotters and enforce the Townshend Duties by 1769?

Hard-hit by the boycott, British merchants and manufacturers petitioned Parliament to repeal the Townshend Duties.

Great Compromise

House of Representatives and Senate representatives. Senate serves 6 year terms for stability, and House serves for 2 years.

Slaves as representation

If slaves were used as representation, then the states would soon see that slavery is wrong.

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.

How did the authorities in Great Britain respond to the American boycott of 1768-1769?

Lord Hillsborough--secretary of state for American affairs--dispatched British troops to Boston.

Which of the following outcomes resulted from the Continental Congress' approval of the Declaration of Independence?

Loyalists and anti-independence moderates left the Congress.

The 1774 Coercive Acts applied to which of the following colonies?

Massachusetts only.

At the First Continental Congress in 1774, New England delegates advocated which of the following plans?

Political union and defensive military preparations.

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.

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.

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 to Britain, Ireland, and the West Indies.

Virginia Plan

Two-house government, each based on population. Smaller states did not agree, and so New Jersey proposed a House of Representatives based on population and the Senate had two representatives from each state.

What prompted many southern yeomen and tenant farmers finally to support independence from Britain in 1775?

Virginia's royal governor's promise to free any slave who joined the Loyalists.

Why did New Englanders resent the Quebec Act of 1774?

it recognized Catholicism as the official religion of Quebec.

By 1770, after five years of crisis and debate over American sovereignty,

outspoken colonial leaders had repudiated Parliament and claimed equality for their own assemblies under the king.