Give Me Liberty! Ch. 5

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

Boston tea party; Olive branch petition; publication of commonsense; Declaration of Independence

Following the Boston tea party, Parliament and post restrictions on Massachusetts that included closing the port of Boston, curtailing town meetings, and allowing soldiers to be watched and peoples houses. These restrictions were called

Coercive or intolerable acts

The final decisive victory in the war for independence was

Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown

Which of the founding fathers argued that up Parliament had no right to authorize the Writs of assistance to combat smuggling

James Otis

The British imposed a direct tax also called an internal tax for the first time on colonists with the

Stamp act

Sons of liberty (1765) or 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 what ever

Who won the Revolutionary war?

Americans

Which of the following does not help explain the electrifying impact of Thomas Paine's common sense?

An insistence that America stood ready to supplant Britain as the world's supreme imperial power

In September 1780, the evil American commander ________ turned traitor to the American cause and almost turn west point over to the British

Benedict Arnold

The tea act raise the price of British tea in the colonies

False

Which of the following was not a source of misgivings in the colonies over the prospect of a complete break with Britian?

Fear that England's withdrawal from North America would leave the former colonies open to the frontier conflict with the Spanish

Which was not part of the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770?

It witnessed tea thrown into Boston Harbor and an Indian massacre

The tactics of American resistance to British colonial policy from the mid 1760s through the mid 1770s included:

All of the above

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 the colonial governance

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

American exceptionalism

Who was considered the first martyr of the American Revolution

Crispus Attucks

The declaration of independence

Declare the United States independent of British rule

As tensions between Britain and the colonies mounted, social conflict with in the colonies faded

False

By the time the stamp act crisis, natural rights had clips the rights of freeborn Englishman in the language of colonial protest

False

During the revolution the British took great care not to disrupt the lives of American civilians

False

More Americans than Frenchman participated in George Washington's decisive victory at Yorktown

False

The 1764 sugar act raised tax on molasses imported into North America

False

The coercive acts were known as abominable acts in the colonies

False

The first battle of the war was very successful for George Washington

False

What two European powers allied with the Americans in the war for independence?

France and Spain

Who was appointed the military commander of the army during the second Continental Congress?

George Washington

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

Thomas Paynes January 1776 pamphlet commonsense argued all of the following except:

It was common sense that in the struggle for independence the slaves Lord Dunmore offered freedom ought to be freed

Which was not part of the Boston tea party?

John Adams was sent to prison on December 17, 1773.

Which of the following to the stamp act affect

Newspapers

Who engraved the image of the Boston massacre that became one of the most influential pieces of political propaganda for the revolutionary era?

Paul revere

Which was not a consequence of the 1765 stamp act?

Postal service was restricted to only those willing to obey the law

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 American scored an important victory against British forces at

Saratoga

To 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 public was ambivalent over a word to retain the colonies; the American public was united behind a war for independence

British success and the seven years war contributed to the making of the American Revolution because:

The British raised taxes to pay for the debt incurred during the war

Which of the following was not a British law forbidding colonial manufacture?

The molasses act of 1733

Which of the following was not a feature of the 1774 intolerable acts?

The repression of Catholicisms in the colonies

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 the power of Parliament to tax the colonies

At Trenton, Washington stage a surprise attack on Hessian mercenaries in the service of the British

True

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

True

By 1780, demoralization within Patriots' ranks was widespread

True

By late 1774, colonial committees of safety had begun transferring affective power from establish colonial governments under British control to grassroot bodies; by 1775, some 7000 men were serving on the committee throughout the colonies

True

By substituting pursuit of happiness for property, Jefferson's declaration of independence significantly broadened the American conception of freedom

True

By unalienable rights Thomas Jefferson meant rights so basically no government could take them away

True

During the war for independence, 5% of US males age 16 to 45 died

True

In the 1760s, liberty became the foremost slogan of colonial resistance

True

Liberty was the foremost popular rallying cry in the age of revolution that began in British north America and spread to Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean

True

Opposition to the stamp act was the first grade drama of the revolutionary era

True

Some slaves gain their freedom by serving soldiers during the revolution

True

The American Declaration of Independence has been an inspirational political document for peoples around the world

True

The stamp act crisis was, in part, a bottle to defined and extend liberty in colonial America

True

Urban merchants how particular reservations about colonial boycott British goods

True

When, on April 9, 1775, British soldiers marched from Boston to the nearby town of Concorde to seize a cache of weapons, some 49 Americans and 73 British soldiers died in skirmishes

True

The first Continental Congress met for:

Two months

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

Committees of correspondence in the colonies during the 1760s:

Where a group of colonial elites who exchanged ideas and information about resistance to the sugar, currency, and stamp act

The daughters of liberty were

Women who spun and wove clothing during the 1768 Townshend duties boycott