APUSH Chapter 5 MC Quiz

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

A yeoman farmer in Massachusetts

Members of activist groups, such as the Sons of Liberty, were typically which of the following

Artisans, shopkeepers, poor laborers, seamen

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

Boycotts

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

Which of the following statements characterizes the British government's attempts to meet its war debt following the Great War for Empire

Parliament increased import taxes on items used by the lower and middling glasses such as sugar and beer

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

Americans responded to the Stamp Act by comparing it to which past event

The Dominion of New England

The colonists; real objections to the Sugar Act stemmed from which of the following

The growing administrative power of the British government over the colonies

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

Which aspect of the Townshend Acts posed a great danger to American political autonomy, according to the colonists

The use of its revenue to pay royal officials

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 New Englanders resent the Quebec Act of 1774

`It recognized Catholicism as the official religion of Quebec