Chapter 4 APUSH
Legislation passed by the Grenville ministry in 1764-1765 adversely affected ________ in America.
All these answers are correct.
The French and Indian War was fought in
All these answers are correct.
According to the terms of the Peace of Paris of 1763,
France ceded Canada and all of its claims to land east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans, to Great Britain.
What future American revolutionary figure surrendered to French forces in 1754 at Fort Necessity in the Ohio Valley?
George Washington
The major participants in the Seven Years' War in North America were the
Iroquois, the English, and the French.
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.
In the years after the Glorious Revolution, political power in England increasingly shifted toward
Parliament.
Who among the following took the lead in protesting against the Stamp Act?
Patrick Henry
The first clash of the French and Indian War took place near what is now
Pittsburgh.
The beginning of the end of the American phase of the French and Indian War was marked by the French defeat at
Quebec
The leading colonial figure in the Boston Massacre was
Samuel Adams.
English and American supporters of the English constitution felt it correctly divided power
among the monarchy, the aristocracy, and the common people.
The "Virginia Resolves" stated that
anyone who supported the right of Parliament to tax was an enemy of the colony.
In 1774, the First Continental Congress
called for the repeal of all oppressive legislation passed since 1763.
Colonial protests directly against the Townshend Duties took the form of
colonial nonimportation agreements.
In North American, as a result of the Seven Years' War, England
confirmed its commercial supremacy and increased its political control of the settled regions.
During the first half of the eighteenth century, royal officials in America
contributed to England's overall lax control of the colonies.
The Paxton Boys and the Regulators both
demanded tax relief.
The French and Indian War in North America
demonstrated that increasing England's control over the colonies would not be easy.
By the 1750s, American colonial assemblies
had claimed the right to levy taxes.
For most Indians in North America, British victory in the French and Indian War
had disastrous effects on their future.
The Stamp Act of 1765
helped to unite the colonies in opposition to the English government.
Many colonists believed the legislation passed by the Grenville ministry in 1764-1765
meant the British were trying to take away their tradition of self-government.
The events of Lexington and Concord
occurred before there was a formal American declaration of independence.
Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by
reducing the powers of self-government in Massachusetts.
The Stamp Act of 1765
required colonists to pay taxes on most printed documents.
The proposed Albany Plan of 1754
revealed the difficulties colonies had in cooperating with each other.
In the 1760s, the Grenville ministry increased its authority in the colonies by
stationing regular British troops permanently in America.
Taverns were important in the growth of revolutionary sentiment because
they become central meeting places to discuss ideas about resistance.
The Boston Tea Party of December 1773
triggered acts of resistance in other colonial cities and took place after Bostonians failed to turn away ships laden with tea.
The Declaratory Act of 1766
was a sweeping assertion of Parliament's authority over the colonies.
During the first half of the eighteenth century, England's administration of the colonies
was decentralized and inefficient.
The Mutiny (or Quartering) Act of 1765
was regarded by objecting colonists as a form of taxation without consent.
The Proclamation of 1763
was supported by many Indian tribal groups.
The Boston Massacre
was transformed by some colonists into a symbol of British oppression.
In 1775, the Conciliatory Propositions
were issued as an appeal by the British government to colonial moderates.
In North America during the eighteenth century, French relations with the Indians differed from that of the English in that they
were more tolerant of Indian cultures.
The Townshend Duties of 1767
were taxes on what Townshend believed to be external transactions.