chapter 4
By the 1750s and 1760s, the English government viewed taxation as a
By the 1750s and 1760s, the English government viewed taxation as a
Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by passing the ______ Acts, which Americans referred to as the ______ Acts.
Coercive; Intolerable
Which of the following U.S. cities was established by French explorers and colonizers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
Detroit and Michigan
On the night of December 16, 1773, 150 Boston men disguised as Native Americans
Dumped the cargo of several ships into the harbor.
The House of Burgesses rejected the most extreme proposals introduced by Patrick , a passionate critic of British policies.
Henry
The First Continental Congress wanted to stop all trade with Great Britain by
creating a series of boycotts.
People of European ancestry born in the Americas are known as
creoles
The day-to-day administration of colonial affairs by England's government in the 1700s tended to be
decentralized
The British wanted to avoid warfare on the frontier, for fear it would
disrupt trade
The First Continental Congress did which of the following?
endorsed a list of grievances recommended preparations be made for defense against British attack
Which of the following describes the general nature of the internal rebellions that occurred in the colonies in the 1760s?
farmers against land owners
The midnight rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes were significant because they
gave Americans at Lexington and Concord warning of the British forces' approach.
Which inflammatory measures did Charles Townshend steer through Parliament in 1767?
imposing new taxes on imports disbanding the New York Assembly
The Coercive Acts were intended to ______ Massachusetts.
isolate
The citizen-soldiers of Massachusetts were known as
minutemen
In 1754, a group of delegates from Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, and New England met in Albany. Their original intent was to
negotiate a treaty with the Iroquois.
The aim of the protests in the last week of 1773 was to
prevent the East India Company from landing its cargo.
By the mid-eighteenth century, which of the following executives wielded the most power in England?
prime minister
The period between the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party is best characterized as a time of
relative calm
Which of the following was not one of the major decisions made by the First Continental Congress in September 1774?
resolution that the king recognize the colonies as a single political entity
Which of the following did Grenville's administration do?
send British ships to patrol colonial waters in search of smugglers enforce the Mutiny, Sugar, and Currency Acts permanently station British troops in the colonies
The French and Indian War was part of a larger struggle between England and France called
seven years' war
To dispute English taxes in the Americas, James Otis persuaded his colleagues in the Massachusetts assembly to meet with other colonial delegates. This multicolony group met in 1765 and became known as the Congress.
stamp act
The Boston Massacre occurred when Captain Thomas Preston
stationed troops to protect a building.
The spirit of resistance that grew more quickly in Massachusetts than elsewhere can be attributed to its elaborately developed
tavern culture
In Massachusetts, ______ became increasingly important centers of resistance in the 1760s and 1770s.
taverns
After Charles Townshend died, Lord North secured the repeal of all the Townshend Duties EXCEPT the tax on
tea
The first phase of the French and Indian War began when
the French attacked Fort Necessity.
Internal rebellions in New York and New England in the 1760s had their roots in
the class system
In 1763, England found itself desperately in need of revenues because of which of the following?
the need to administer new territory in North America the cost of many years of fighting
True or false: The British need for revenue resulted in new policies that had a disastrous effect on its relationship with the American colonies.
true
Which of the following statements about the Sugar Act of 1764 are correct?
It strengthened the duty on sugar while lowering it on molasses. It established new courts to try accused smugglers.
Which of the following statements about the Boston Massacre is accurate?
It was used by resistance leaders to foment public outrage.
What key issue most drove the new British policies in the colonies after the French and Indian War?
British war debt
The American theater of the Seven Years' War was a conflict among the
British, French, and Iroquois.
Under the Proclamation of 1763, white settlement west of the ______ was forbidden.
Appalachian Mountains
Which of the following were provisions of the Coercive Acts?
-reducing the powers of the Massachusetts colonial government -closing the port of Boston -requiring colonists to board troops
Although the colonies in 1754 were reluctant to cooperate, they had successfully worked with one another with regard to matters such as
-road construction.-intercolonial trade.-a colonial postal service.
What did the Virginia Resolves declare?
-that Americans had the same rights as the English. -that only the Virginia assembly could tax Virginians.
By what means did the French try to control their empire in North America?
-trading posts.-Mississippi plantations.-fortresses.-fuedal estates.
The first real proposal for a general government to rule all colonies was the Plan.
Albany
On April 18, 1775, British General Thomas Gage sent a detachment of soldiers to
Lexington and Concord.
Which of the following statements about native alliances during the French and Indian War are accurate?
Most natives saw their alliances as a means for expelling one power or another from their lands.The Iroquois remained largely passive throughout the conflict.Most tribes sided with the French.
Why was it necessary for the British to issue the Proclamation of 1763?
White settlers had begun moving into tribal lands.
Who was Ethan Allen?
a land speculator that took up the cause of the Green Mountain farmers
In the face of massive financial problems after the Seven Years' War, many British leaders came to believe their only hope was
a system of taxation administered by London.
Although colonists in other colonial cities protested the Tea Act, the protest in ______ garnered the most attention.
boston
The Mutiny Act of 1765 required
colonists to help provision and maintain the British army stationed in America.