Chapter 5 Quiz U.S. History
(Q048) The 1764 Sugar Act provoked the colonists by increasing the tax on molasses imported into North America.
False
(Q055) The Age of Revolution began in Spanish South America.
False
(Q056) The Coercive Acts were known as the Abominable Acts in the colonies.
False
(Q065) The immediate cause of the rioting at the home of Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson was the Sugar Act.
False
(Q067) Opposition to the Stamp Act developed more slowly than in the case of the Townshend duties.
False
(Q078) The words "we have it in our power to begin the world over again" and the description of the new nation as an "asylum for mankind" are from the Declaration of Independence.
False
(Q012) The ruler of Great Britain during the time of the American Revolution was
George III
Who was appointed the military commander of the army during the Second Continental Congress?
George Washington
(Q047) What happened to the Iroquois Confederacy during the American Revolutionary War?
Its members fought for both England and America.
(Q040) Which word emerged as the foremost rallying cry for popular discontent in the New World in the mid-1700s?
Liberty
(Q002) During the 1760s, backcountry protesters in the Carolinas were known as
Regulators
(Q027) On October 17, 1777, the Americans scored an important victory against British forces at
Saratoga.
(Q052) On April 19, 1775, British soldiers marched from Boston to the nearby town of Concord to seize a cache of weapons; some forty-nine Americans and seventy-three British soldiers died in skirmishes.
True
(Q059) At Trenton, Washington staged a surprise attack on Hessian soldiers in the service of the British.
True
(Q060) The American Declaration of Independence has been an inspirational political document for peoples around the world.
True
(Q079) The brutal treatment of civilians by British forces under Col. Banastre Tarleton persuaded many Americans to join the patriot cause.
True
(Q001) The tactics of American resistance to British colonial policy from the mid-1760s through the mid-1770s included
mass demonstrations in the port towns.
(Q017) What did the 1766 Declaratory Act declare?
that Parliament had the power to pass laws for all of the colonies "in all cases whatever"
(Q009) British success in the Seven Years' War contributed to the making of the American Revolution because
the British government raised taxes to pay for the debt it incurred during the war.
(Q010) Which of the following was a British law forbidding colonial manufacture?
the Wool Act of 1699
(Q042) What factor tended to sway the Cherokee decision to support England or the American colonies in the American Revolutionary War?
Age
(Q029) In September 1780, the American commander ____________ turned traitor to the American cause and almost turned West Point over to the British.
Benedict Arnold
(Q020) In 1773, American colonists disguised as Indians boarded three ships and created a civil protest in
Boston Harbor
(Q032) Who was considered "the first martyr" of the American Revolution?
Crispus Attucks
(Q075) One of the unique aspects of Thomas Paine's writing was his addressing of the upper elite, as they were the men who had voting power
False
(Q046) Like white Americans during the American Revolution, Native Americans experienced
Political divisions
(Q061) Some slaves gained their freedom by serving as soldiers during the Revolution.
True
(Q076) In Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence, he berated the king regarding the continued inhumanity of the slave trade.
True
(Q043) What did Patriot victory in the American Revolution foster in the Borderlands?
the power of white settlers
(Q015) Committees of Correspondence in the colonies during the 1760s
were a group of colonial elites who exchanged ideas and information about resistance to the Sugar, Currency, and Stamp Acts.
