Chapter 5
How many colonists died in the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
Almost 50
Apart from respectfully requesting a repeal of the Stamp Act, what else did influential Americans suggest for peaceful resistance in 1765?
Boycotting British goods
Who did Parliament decide to tax first when the British Empire found itself deep in debt in the wake of the Great War for Empire (1754-1763)?
Britain's poor and middling classes
How had Boston merchant John Hancock made his fortune?
By smuggling French molasses
The patriotic writers on the eve of the American Revolution drew on which intellectual tradition to protest imperial reform?
English common law
To help pay the enlarged British national debt in the 1760s, Parliament passed an increase in sales taxes also known as what?
Excise levies
Which prime minister presided over British attempts to reform the colonial system in America after the Great War for Empire?
George Grenville
Why did Lord North repeal the Townshend duties in 1770?
He argued that taxes on British exports made no economic sense
Why was Patrick Henry's attack against the Stamp Act so radical?
He directly attacked George III for supporting the legislation
Why did the British secretary of state for American affairs Lord Hillsborough favor a permanent Proclamation Line to the west of the colonies?
He feared the end of the British laboring class
How did Prime Minister George Grenville first try to address the revenue problem with the American colonies?
He proposed the Currency Act
Which statement describes King George III during the colonial period?
He proved an ineffective leader.
How did chancellor of the exchequer Charles Townshend seek to undermine American political institutions in his Revenue Act of 1767?
He sought to block American influence by using parliamentary taxes to finance imperial administration in the colonies.
To display their deep contempt for the Coercive Acts, what did Patriots call them?
Intolerable Acts
What describes Lord Dunmore?
Irascible and unscrupulous who clashed with the house of Burgesses
Why was the Declaratory Act so threatening to colonists?
It declared American governmental institutions to be completely dependent on the will of Parliament
Which statement describes the impact of Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
It made a broad and deep impression throughout colonial society
How did Parliament resolve the Stamp Act crisis in 1766?
It repealed the law but reaffirmed its right to enact such taxation
What explains the high number of casualties the British suffered in their campaign against Concord?
Militias from neighboring towns repeatedly ambushed the British
Which of these British colonies sent representatives to the First Continental Congress?
North Carolina
Where did the First Continental Congress meet in September of 1774?
Philadelphia
The Quebec Act allowed practice of which religion in Quebec?
Roman Catholicism
In 1763, Radical Whigs launched a campaign to reform Parliament by abolishing tiny districts that were controlled by wealthy aristocrats and merchants. What were these districts known as?
Rotten boroughs
What institution was directly threatened by the Patriots' ideology?
Slavery
The Tea Act of 1773 benefited which group?
The East India Company
Which region of colonial America held out for a political compromise with Great Britain after the enactment of the Coercive Acts?
The Middle Atlantic colonies
How did British politicians respond to Benjamin Franklin's argument that Americans deserved representation in Parliament before they could be taxed?
The colonists had virtual representation in Parliament
What statement assesses the situation of the British national debt in 1763?
The issue was crucial because interest on the debt consumed much of the nation's budget
Why did the tenant farmers of the Hudson River Valley in New York support the king?
Their landlords were Patriots
Why did the Radical Whigs criticize the increased size of the British government created to enforce new tax laws in the 1760s?
They claimed that a large, expensive government placed the nation at the mercy of banks and financiers
Why did a good number of men of the upper classes fear the Patriot movement?
They feared that resistance to Britain was the beginning of broader anarchy
Why did the Virginia gentry support the demands of yeomen farmers to close the law courts in 1774?
They feared that they too might end up in court for their indebtedness
Why did New England merchants oppose the Sugar Act of 1764?
They feared that tighter customs enforcement would wipe out their smuggling of French molasses
Why did the political allies of New England merchants object to the Sugar Acts?
They objected to the Sugar Act on constitutional grounds
What was the primary American complaint against being tried in vice-admiralty courts, as stipulated by the Sugar Act of 1764?
Trial before the courts robbed Americans of their rights to be tried before a local common-law court
Which statement explains the fact that more than three-fourths of the voters of Long Island did not want to send a delegate to New York's Provincial Congress in 1775?
Which statement explains the fact that more than three-fourths of the voters of Long Island did not want to send a delegate to New York's Provincial Congress in 1775?
Evangelical Protestants stirred by the religious passions of the Great Awakening joined mobs opposing the Stamp Act because they
resented the arrogance of British military officers and the corruption of royal bureaucrats