HIST 1700 Ch. 5

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.

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.

On what basis did the American colonists object to the vice-admiralty courts in which violators of the Sugar Act were tried?

The courts were run by British-appointed judges and did not involve juries.

Which of the following statements describes the Stamp Act Congress, which was held in New York in 1765?

The delegates protested loss of American liberties and challenged the act's constitutionality.

In which of the following ways did the Rockingham ministry in Britain fashion a compromise to the Stamp Act crisis in 1766?

It repealed the Stamp Act, lowered the molasses tax, and crafted the Declaratory Act.

In the 1760s and early 1770s, lawyers and other educated Americans used common-law arguments mainly to

assert the colonists' rights and liberties as Englishmen.

At the same time that Parliament imposed the Stamp Act, it also passed the Quartering Act, which required

colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops sent to America to protect them.

Patriots' widely publicized use of natural rights arguments to protest British actions in the 1760s inspired which of the following?

African American slaves to petition the Massachusetts legislature for the abolition of slavery

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

Boycotts

Which of the following statements characterizes responses to the planned Stamp Act?

British politicians, with the exception of William Pitt, refused to consider the idea of American representation in Parliament.

Which of the following factors was among those that motivated many merchants, artisans, and journeymen to protest against the Stamp Act?

Fear that their personal liberty would be undermined

Why did the British General Gage refuse to use his military force to protect the stamps that were to be used once the Stamp Act took effect?

Gage believed that military force would disperse the protests but spark an insurrection.

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.

George Grenville designed the Sugar Act of 1764 to accomplish which of the following?

Improve colonial merchants' compliance with customs laws

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 Townshend Acts of 1767 imposed duties on which of the following goods?

Paper, paint, glass, and tea imported into the colonies

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 poor and middling classes such as sugar and beer.

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

Patriot leaders convened the group in response to the imposition of the Coercive Acts.

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

Political union and defensive military preparations

How did British politicians respond to the American's cry of "no taxation without representation"?

Politicians argued that the colonists already had virtual representation.

Which of the following was one reason the British sent 7,500 troops to North America after the end of the Great War for Empire in 1763?

The British government sought to prevent future Indian uprisings on the frontier.

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

George Grenville conceived the Sugar Act of 1764 to replace which of the following acts?

The Molasses Act of 1733

Which of the following was part of British Parliament's effort to govern the colonies after the Great War for Empire ended in 1763?

The seizure of American vessels carrying supplies from the mainland to the French West Indies

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.

How did the Daughters of Liberty contribute to the American boycott of British goods in the late 1760s?

They promoted nonimportation by making and wearing homespun cloth.

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.

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.