Chapter 5 History

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

Boston Tea Party; Olive Branch Petition; publication of Common Sense; Declaration of Independence

The final decisive victory in the War for Independence was

Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown.

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

False

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

False

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

False

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

False

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

False

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

France and Spain

The ruler of Great Britain during the time of the American Revolution was

George III

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.

Which word emerged as the foremost rallying cry for popular discontent in the New World in the mid-1700s?

liberty

Which of the following did the Stamp Act affect?

newspapers

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

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

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.

During the War for Independence, 5 percent of U.S. males aged sixteen to forty-five died. Correct! T or F

True

In Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence, he berated the king regarding the continued inhumanity of the slave trade. T or F

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. T or F

True

In response to the colonists forming of a Continental army, Britain declared the colonies in a state of rebellion and ordered the closing of all colonial ports. Correct! T or F

True

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

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. T or F

True

When, 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. T or F

True

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.

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.

Which of the following was not a feature of the 1774 Intolerable Acts?

the repression of Catholicism in the colonies