AMH 2010 Chapter 5

What did the Sugar Act of 1764 do that so vexed the colonists due to the already existing tax on molasses imported from the French West Indies?

It decreased it

Adding to Congress's formal declaration, the Declaration of Independence

declared the United States independent of British rule.

In the mid-1700s, this word emerged as the foremost rallying cry for popular discontent in the New World.

liberty

Which of the following did the Stamp Act affect?

newspapers

The idea that the United States has a special mission to serve as a symbol of freedom, a refuge from tyranny, and a model for the world is called by historians

American exceptionalism.

Who won the Revolutionary War?

Americans

In September 1780, this able American commander turned traitor to the American cause and almost turned West Point over to the British.

Benedict Arnold

Following the Boston Tea Party, Parliament imposed restrictions on Massachusetts that included closing the port of Boston, curtailing town meetings, and allowing soldiers to be lodged in people's houses. These restrictions were called

Coercive or Intolerable Acts.

The "shot heard 'round the world" began the American War of Independence, and took place in what city?

Concord

The final decisive victory in the War for Independence was

Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown.

Who was considered "the first martyr" of the American Revolution?

Crispus Attucks

"Give me liberty, or give me death!" was uttered by Samuel Adams at the first Continental Congress.

False

According to the doctrine of "virtual representation," the House of Commons represented very few residents of the British empire, despite their voting statuses.

False

As tensions between Britain and the colonies mounted, social conflict within the colonies faded.

False

Before leaving Boston, the British, under the command of Lord Charles Cornwallis, cut down the original Liberty Tree.

False

One of the unique aspects of Thomas Paine's writing was that he addressed the educated elite, as they were the men who had voting power.

False

Opposition to the Stamp Act developed more slowly than in the case of the Townshend duties.

False

The 1764 Sugar Act provoked the colonists by increasing the tax on molasses imported into North America.

False

The Age of Revolution began in Spanish South America.

False

The Coercive Acts were known as the Abominable Acts in the colonies.

False

The Stamp Act had mainly affected residents of colonial ports; the Sugar Act managed to offend virtually every free colonist.

False

The Tea Act raised the price of Chinese tea in the colonies.

False

The first battles of the Revolutionary War were very successful for George Washington.

False

The immediate cause of the rioting at the home of Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson was the Sugar Act.

False

What two European powers allied with the Americans in the War for Independence?

France and Spain

The name of the Revolutionary "swamp fox" was

Francis Marion

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

Which of the colonies did not participate in the first Continental Congress?

Georgia

Which of the "founding fathers" argued that Parliament had no right to authorize the Writs of Assistance to combat smuggling?

James Otis

Who engraved the image of the Boston Massacre that became one of the most influential pieces of political propaganda of the Revolutionary Era?

Paul Revere

The First Continental Congress met in

Philadelphia.

During the 1760s, backcountry protesters in the Carolinas were known as

Regulators.

Who was not a member of the American delegation that negotiated the Treaty of Paris?

Samuel Adams

On October 17, 1777, the Americans scored an important victory against British forces at

Saratoga.

The two southern colonies that did not enroll free blacks and slaves to fight were

South Carolina and Georgia.

Which of the following was not a part of the balance of power between the British and American forces during the Revolution?

The British had correctly surmised the degree of support for independence among the American population.

Which of the following was not a feature of the Stamp Act crisis of 1765?

The Stamp Act was passed by the Stamp Act Congress as a way to subvert Parliament's power to tax the colonies.

An early skirmish between the colonists and British soldiers arose over the seizure of arms stockpiled in Concord.

True

At Trenton, Washington staged a surprise attack on Hessian soldiers in the service of the British

True

At the beginning of the war, George Washington refused to accept black recruits.

True

By late 1774, colonial Committees of Safety had begun transferring effective power from established colonial governments (under British control) to grassroots bodies.

True

By substituting "pursuit of happiness" for "property," Jefferson's Declaration of Independence significantly broadened the American conception of freedom.

True

During the Seven Years' War, Great Britain treated the colonists as allies, yet only a few years later the colonists were treated as subordinates again.

True

In Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence, he berated the king regarding the continued inhumanity of the slave trade.

True

In his work, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Thomas Jefferson demanded that the British empire be seen as a collection of equal parts held together by loyalty to a constitutional monarch, not a system in which one part ruled over the others.

True

In response to the colonists' formation of a Continental army, Britain declared the colonies in a state of rebellion and ordered the closing of all colonial ports.

True

In the late 1700s, there was a rumor that the Anglican Church in England planned to send bishops to America, causing colonists to fear that new religious courts might be established.

True

Some slaves gained their freedom by serving as soldiers during the Revolution.

True

The brutal treatment of civilians by British forces under Colonel Banastre Tarleton persuaded many Americans to join the patriot cause.

True

The colonial political leader Joseph Galloway predicted that if the colonies were to achieve independence, a war between the northern and southern colonies might later occur.

True

The reason John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence in such large script was because he wanted to make sure King George III could read his signature without the assistance of his glasses.

True

When, on April 19, 1775, British soldiers marched from Boston to the nearby town of Concord to seize a cache of weapons, forty-nine Americans and seventy-three British soldiers died in skirmishes.

True

The Carolina "Regulators" of the mid-1760s were

a group of wealthy residents of the backcountry who protested the lack of courts and lack of representation in colonial governance.

A major blow to the relationship between the British and colonists occurred when Lord Dunmore proclaimed that

escaped slaves who took up arms for the king would be freed.

As Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense, became one of the most successful and influential in the history of political writing to that date, Paine wanted a share of the profits to be used for

supplies for the Continental army.

Sons of Liberty (1765) were said to oppose "every limitation of trade and duty on it." In this context, define "duty."

tax

What did the 1766 Declaratory Act declare?

that Parliament had the power to pass laws for the colonies "in all cases whatever"

British success in the Seven Years' War contributed to the making of the American Revolution because

the British raised taxes to pay for the debt it incurred during the war.

When colonists insisted that because they were not represented in Parliament they could not be taxed by the British government, the British replied that they were represented by

virtual representation.

Both colonists and some in Britain decried the treatment of John Wilkes because he

was expelled from Parliament due to his scandalous remarks about the king.

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.