APUSH CHAPTER 5
What group petitioned the Massachusetts legislature for a law granting them new rights, arguing that they have "a natural right . . . to enjoy such property, as they may acquire by their industry"?
African American slaves
Apart from respectfully requesting a repeal of the Stamp Act, what else did influential Americans suggest for peaceful resistance in 1765?
Boycotting British goods
The patriotic writers on the eve of the American Revolution drew on which intellectual tradition to protest imperial reform?
English common law
Why was Patrick Henry's attack against the Stamp Act so radical?
He directly attacked George III for supporting the legislation
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 Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia in the early 1770s?
He was as willing to defy the crown for his own advancement as he was likely to clash 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.
What constitutional principle was Parliament asserting with passage of the Stamp Act?
Parliament could bypass colonial assemblies and impose an internal tax on the colonies.
What stood at the heart of Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
Rejection of patriarchal authority
Why did American merchants resent the Sugar Act even though it reduced the tariff on French molasses?
The British said they would enforce the law more vigorously than before.
Why did the mainland colonies achieve a trade surplus with Britain in 1769?
The colonies' nonimportation agreement was taking its toll.
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.
According to the royal governor of Massachusetts Francis Bernard, what applied to British subjects in Britain but not to American colonists?
The right to direct representation in Parliament
The Tea Act of 1773 benefited which group?
The west india company
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.
He was as willing to defy the crown for his own advancement as he was likely to clash with the House of Burgesses
They feared that tighter customs enforcement would wipe out their smuggling of French molasses.
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 Quebec Act anger land speculators in Virginia?
They had long planned to expand into the Ohio River Valley
Why did the political allies of New England merchants object to the Sugar Acts?
They objected to the Sugar Act on constitutional grounds.
The major transformation of the British Empire following the Seven Years' War can best be characterized as a(n)
centralization of the empire in the hands of imperial officials.
How did Parliament resolve the Stamp Act crisis in 1766?
it repealed the law but reaffirmed its right to enact such taxation
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
