Chapter 5 LP History, history 2610 chapter 5
In September 1780, the able American commander ____________ turned traitor to the American cause and almost turned West Point over to the British.
Benedict ArnoldIn
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
What was the outcome of General Edward Braddock's advance on Fort Duquesne?
British forces captured Fort Duquesne and expelled the French. Braddock's success led to his becoming commander of the British troops in Virginia. Incorrect: George Washington became Braddock's aide-de-camp. Correct: The French and Indians badly defeated Braddock's force.
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.
What was an effect of the 1763 Peace of Paris, which ended the Seven Years' War?
Colonial claims over the Ohio River valley were settled. Spain ceded all land claims in North America to Britain. Correct: Indian land claims in lands ceded to Britain were ignored. The contested claims over British North America's frontiers were settled.
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.
How did the British government react to the meeting of colonial leaders at the 1754 Albany Congress? Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.
Correct: British officials worried that greater cooperation among colonies would undermine royal authority in the colonies.
What was the consensus at the Continental Congress in 1774?
Correct: Continued resistance Incorrect: Acquiescence to the crown Acquiescence to the crown Incorrect: Disbandment of militias Disbandment of militias Incorrect: Need for a petition to Parliament Need for a petition to Parliament
What was a French advantage during the opening battles of the French and Indian War?
Correct: Extensive trade networks Incorrect: A larger population in North America A larger population in North America Incorrect: Italian conscripts Italian conscripts Incorrect: Portuguese and Prussian allies Portuguese and Prussian allies
According to John Dickinson, what is wrong with the four shilling tax that Parliament levied on glass and paper?
Correct: It acknowledged Parliament's right to tax. Incorrect: It was too high and should be lowered. Incorrect: It was too low and should be raised. It applied only to Pennsylvania.
Which of the "founding fathers" argued that Parliament had no right to authorize the Writs of Assistance to combat smuggling?
James Otis
The Age of Revolution began in Spanish South America.
false
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.
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
The uprising along the Hudson River between the Green Mountain Boys and the governor of Georgia began with a dispute over land rights.
false
The words "we have it in our power to begin the world over again" and the description of the new nation as an "asylum for mankind" are from the Declaration of Independence.
false
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
During the War for Independence, 5 percent of U.S. males aged sixteen to forty-five died.
true
In Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence, he berated the king regarding the continued inhumanity of the slave trade.
true
Who won the Revolutionary War?
Americans
Opposition to the Stamp Act developed more slowly than in the case of the Townshend duties.
false
What caused conflict among between rich and poor colonists in New York's Hudson valley in the 1760s? Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.
A lack of representation in Parliament Correct: Disputes over landownership rights Incorrect: A new boundary established with New Hampshire Increased taxes levied on tea
What was the immediate colonial response to the Townshend Act? Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.
Acceptance Violence Correct: Boycotts Revolution
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.
What was the significance of the Stamp Act in the colonies? Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.
Correct: It unleashed concerns about colonists' lack of representation in Parliament. It was enacted in a depressed economy. It was announced a year before it was enacted. Incorrect: It was the first indirect tax imposed on the colonies.
What was one effect of the Boston Massacre?
Correct: Parliament repealed most of the Townshend taxes. The British moved to arrest Sam Adams. The boycott was suspended for a year. Boston merchants suffered economic losses.
Although William Pitt had saved Great Britain from defeat during the Seven Years' War, King George III dismissed him because
Correct: Pitt's strategy was too costly. Incorrect: other countries were ready to negotiate peace. Incorrect: the king had no interest in obtaining Canada. Incorrect: Pitt opposed the king's plan to gain Florida.
What was an effect of the attacks by the Abenaki and other Indian tribes on British settlers in the early 1750s?
Correct: The British sent more troops to the colonies. The French expanded into British territory. Incorrect: The French attacked British settlers. British settlers forged an alliance with the French.
What characterized Britain's informal policy of benign neglect toward the colonies that was in force before the French and Indian War?
Correct: The mother country held but did not enforce ultimate sovereignty over the colonies. Incorrect: The mother country enforced its power in an autocratic manner. The colonies ruled themselves with no interference from Great Britain. The colonists were not required to abide by any of Britain's rules.
What was the purpose of the Stamp Act?
Correct: To have the colonies pay for their own maintenance through taxes Incorrect: To keep the colonists under control To punish the colonists for their resistance to the Sugar Act To demonstrate Parliament's authority to tax the colonies
Why was the committee of correspondence established in the 1760s?
Correct: To launch a dialogue among the colonies regarding new British policies Incorrect: To lodge formal complaints against Prime Minister Grenville To send petitions to the king regarding the new tax program To circulate ideas about protests and revolution Next
Why did Governor Tryon of North Carolina order his militia to attack the Regulators and publicly hang six of them?
Correct: To stop what he perceived to be open rebellion Incorrect: To build his mansion Incorrect: To support the eastern slaveholding elites Incorrect: To show other colonial leaders how to deal with protests
According to Herman Husband's pamphlet, why were government officials refusing to grant farmers title to their lands?
Correct: Wealthy individuals wanted the lands for themselves once farmers had made improvements. Incorrect: The Earl of Granville had directed his agents to buy up as much improved land as possible for himself. Incorrect: The king of England had refused his assent to a law that would have made lands more widely available. Incorrect: Parliament had passed a law forbidding colonial officials from granting the land titles.
Why did Britain's victory in the French and Indian War result in more frequent conflicts with Native Americans?
Correct: With France out of the way, colonists poured into western lands where they collided with Indians.
Many colonial merchants joined the movement to resist British policy in 1773 in response to Parliament
Correct: giving the East India Company a monopoly on the tea trade. requiring the colonies to pay to quarter troops during peacetime. enacting a stamp act that taxed newspapers and pamphlets. Incorrect: declaring the port of Boston closed to trade until further notice.
Who was considered "the first martyr" of the American Revolution?
Crispus Attucks
What mistake did British officials make in enacting the Coercive Acts in 1774?
Demanding that Massachusetts reinstate its original seventeenth-century charter Correct: Making colonists more determined to oppose British policy because of Massachusetts' plight. Incorrect: Requiring royal officials to be tried in the colonies by a jury of their peers Forcing Massachusetts to hand over Tea Party leader Samuel Adams for trial
What important problem plagued Great Britain in the immediate aftermath of the Seven Years' War?
Discord among colonists of diverse backgrounds Animosity from the colonists Incorrect: Continued fighting in Europe Correct: Large debt as a result of the cost of the war
What does the map of the French and Indian War, 1754-1763, show about the scope of the conflict? Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.
Fighting was confined to North America. Incorrect: Fighting was confined to Europe. Correct: Fighting stretched across the globe. Incorrect: Fighting stretched across the Atlantic Ocean. Fighting stretched across the Atlantic Ocean.
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
Why did the Indian prophet Neolin urge his fellow Indians to return to the traditions of their ancient ancestors in the mid-1700s?
He feared that his people felt culturally inferior to their European counterparts. He believed that whites were trying to starve his people. He thought that Indians should move away from white settlements. Correct: He believed that Indians had been corrupted by Europeans.
Why did the Indian prophet Neolin urge his fellow Indians to return to the traditions of their ancient ancestors in the mid-1700s?
He thought that Indians should move away from white settlements. He believed that whites were trying to starve his people. He feared that his people felt culturally inferior to their European counterparts. Correct: He believed that Indians had been corrupted by Europeans.
Who led attacks on government officials in protest against the decision to place the Green Mountains in New York rather than in New Hampshire?
Herman Husband Jeffrey Amherst Incorrect: William Prendergast Correct: Ethan Allen
What eighteenth-century practice targeted sailors for forced service in the Royal Navy?
Impressment
What was one effect of the Boston Massacre?
Incorrect: Boston merchants suffered economic losses. Incorrect: The boycott was suspended for a year. The British moved to arrest Sam Adams. Correct: Parliament repealed most of the Townshend taxes.
What was the outcome of General Edward Braddock's advance on Fort Duquesne?
Incorrect: British forces captured Fort Duquesne and expelled the French. British forces captured Fort Duquesne and expelled the French. Incorrect: Braddock's success led to his becoming commander of the British troops in Virginia. Correct: The French and Indians badly defeated Braddock's force. George Washington became Braddock's aide-de-camp.
What was an effect of Great Britain's pattern of benign neglect in colonial governance before the French and Indian War?
Incorrect: British involvement in the colonies waned in the 1760s and 1770s. Britain reacted against the policy by raising taxes on the colonies. Colonists were afraid to express their will to the British government. Correct: Colonists believed themselves to be more independent than they were.
What was an effect on the colonies of the Coercive, or Intolerable, Acts?
Incorrect: Colonial militias disbanded. Colonial militias disbanded. Incorrect: The British presence in the colonies decreased. The British presence in the colonies decreased. Incorrect: Respect for Parliament's resolve grew. Correct: Opposition to the British government increased.
What caused the Battle of Alamance Creek in 1771?
Incorrect: Colonists' anger over the Townshend Act Tension between British customs officials and North Carolina Regulators Incorrect: Governor Tryon's allegiance to British policies Correct: Governor Tryon's decision to send troops to the North Carolina frontier
What was the significance of the Albany Congress in 1754? Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.
Incorrect: It established a governing council with representatives from each colony. . Incorrect: It ended colonial cooperation on Indian policy. It was one of the first discussions of colonial independence. Correct: It was one of the first attempts to bring the colonies together.
Why did George Grenville and most of Parliament believe the Stamp Act to be fair?
Incorrect: It taxed all transactions involving paper items. It was an optional tax. Correct: The proceeds were to be spent in the colonies. The tax was at a very low rate.
What eighteenth-century practice targeted sailors for forced service in the Royal Navy?
Incorrect: Militia duty Correct: Impressment Incorrect: Smuggling Salutary neglect
How did news of the Boston Massacre spread through the colonies?
Incorrect: Newspaper reports of the event became hot sellers. Incorrect: Reports of the soldiers' trial were widely circulated. Sam Adams commissioned an engraving of the event. Correct: Committees of correspondence spread the word.
Why did North Carolina Governor William Tryon send the militia to the frontier of the colony in 1771?
Incorrect: People in the western part of the colony requested protection from Indians. Incorrect: British Loyalists were harassing colonists sympathetic to independence. Incorrect: British officials had directed him to use force to collect sugar duties. Correct: He feared the Regulator movement was in open rebellion against his rule.
Which aspect of Prime Minister George Grenville's program of reform for the colonies involved prohibiting smuggling, establishing guidelines for legal commerce, and setting trade duties?
Incorrect: Quartering Act Incorrect: Sugar Act Incorrect: Stamp Act Correct: Navigation Acts
What was the effect of General James Wolfe's victory in Quebec in 1759?
Incorrect: The Seven Years' War ended. The Seven Years' War ended. Correct: The British gained control of Canada. The British gained control of Canada. Incorrect: Wolfe continued on to capture Lake Champlain. Incorrect: France left the war. France left the war.
What characterized Britain's informal policy of benign neglect toward the colonies that was in force before the French and Indian War?
Incorrect: The mother country enforced its power in an autocratic manner. Correct: The mother country held but did not enforce ultimate sovereignty over the colonies. Incorrect: The colonists were not required to abide by any of Britain's rules. Incorrect: The colonists were not required to abide by any of Britain's rules.
How did women join the protests against Parliament following the Townshend Act (1767)?
Incorrect: They formed mobs to attack British officials. Incorrect: They met to discuss a response at the Stamp Act Congress. Incorrect: They volunteered for militia service. They volunteered for militia service. Correct: They refused to buy British goods.
Why did the British Parliament grant the East India Tea Company a monopoly on the colonial tea trade?
Incorrect: To assert their supremacy over the colonies To rile the colonists Correct: To save the company To punish Bostonians for their prior resistance
Why did the British invite delegates from the Iroquois Confederacy to the Albany Congress of 1754? Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.
Incorrect: To create a trade alliance Correct: To solidify a military alliance To establish a council of Iroquois and British representatives Incorrect: To resolve questions of colonial governance
What had Parliament intended when it passed the Coercive Acts?
Incorrect: To radicalize colonists To radicalize colonists To punish those responsible for the Boston Tea Party Incorrect: To force colonists into war Correct: To subdue colonial conflict
Why did the Cherokee Nation attack South Carolina farmers in 1759?
Incorrect: To show their continued allegiance to the French To show their continued allegiance to the French Incorrect: To avenge farmers' attacks on their villages Correct: To protect their hunting grounds To protect their hunting grounds Incorrect: To encourage fellow Indian tribes to defend their land rights
Who led attacks on government officials in protest against the decision to place the Green Mountains in New York rather than in New Hampshire?
Incorrect: William Prendergast Correct: Ethan Allen Incorrect: Jeffrey Amherst Incorrect: Herman Husband
What caused conflict among between rich and poor colonists in New York's Hudson valley in the 1760s?
Increased taxes levied on tea Incorrect: A lack of representation in Parliament Correct: Disputes over landownership rights A new boundary established with New Hampshire
Why was the third part of Grenville's colonial program—the enactment of taxes aimed at raising revenues in the colonies—significant?
It caused the establishment of the committee of correspondence.
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
What was the significance of the Stamp Act Congress that met in New York in October 1765? Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.
It denounced violent protest and defended the right of Parliament to tax the colonies. Incorrect: It approved a plan to accept British taxes in exchange for electing colonial representatives to Parliament. It approved a plan to accept British taxes in exchange for electing colonial representatives to Parliament. It discussed the possibility of declaring independence from Britain and creating a new country. Correct: It brought together leaders from nine colonies to petition Parliament to repeal the act.
What was the significance of the Albany Congress in 1754?
It established a governing council with representatives from each colony. Incorrect: It was one of the first discussions of colonial independence. Correct: It was one of the first attempts to bring the colonies together. It ended colonial cooperation on Indian policy.
What was the political significance of the Great Awakening?
It provided a template for unifying and mobilizing a mass of people.
Why was the Boston Tea Party more radical than earlier petitions and circulars?
It was a direct challenge to British authority.
What was the significance of the Stamp Act in the colonies? Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.
It was announced a year before it was enacted. It was enacted in a depressed economy. Correct: It unleashed concerns about colonists' lack of representation in Parliament. It was the first indirect tax imposed on the colonies.
In addition to the Proclamation Line of 1763 and impressment, what other British practice caused colonists to join with one another across class lines?
Laws promoting slavery Laws against smuggling Correct: The quartering of British troops New York's capture of the Green Mountains
In 1758, Britain won a significant victory that opened an invasion route into Canada at which location?
Louisburg
Who forged an alliance among native groups in an attempt to resist British movement westward?
Neolin Correct: Pontiac Incorrect: The Paxton Boys Incorrect: Jeffrey Amherst
In addition to their opposition to the Stamp Act, what did attendees of the Stamp Act Congress have in common?
Ownership of large estates Ownership of slaves Correct: Possession of considerable wealth Lack of loyalty to the king
Why did the colonists object to Parliament's rescue of the East India Company in 1773?
Parliament gave the Company a monopoly on the tea trade to the North American colonies.
What was the message of the Separate Baptists in the southern colonies in the mid-1700s? Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.
Parliamentary corruption Correct: Spiritual equality Incorrect: Catholic corruption Incorrect: The abolition of slavery The abolition of slavery
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
What was one important effect of Pontiac's rebellion and the Conestoga massacre? Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.
Pontiac's Ottawa tribe was exterminated. Ben Franklin settled the issue of protection for western settlers. Correct: The British issued the Proclamation Line of 1763. The Ottawa resettled from Pennsylvania to Detroit.
During the 1760s, backcountry protesters in the Carolinas were known as
Regulators
Through the Peace of Paris (1763) Britain achieved which long-term policy goal?
Removing France from North America
How did news of the Boston Massacre spread through the colonies? Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.
Sam Adams commissioned an engraving of the event. Correct: Committees of correspondence spread the word. Newspaper reports of the event became hot sellers. Reports of the soldiers' trial were widely circulated.
Who was not a member of the American delegation that negotiated the Treaty of Paris?
Samuel Adams
What was the result of the popular and often violent protests to the Stamp Act?
Samuel Adams became the leader of the Sons of Liberty. Colonists organized across class and race. Incorrect: Colonists came to resent the wealth of the stamp distributors. Colonists came to resent the wealth of the stamp distributors. Correct: No stamp agents took their posts when the act took effect.
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 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.
How did the Great Awakening help unite the colonies politically in the second half of the eighteenth century?
The message of the Great Awakening provided a language with which to attack the policies of political elites.
What was the significance of Ethan Allen, William Prendergast, and their followers?
They revealed the desperation of the dispossessed in the colonies.
Why did colonists organize groups such as the Sons of Liberty and the Daughters of Liberty?
To challenge the Stamp Act To punish stamp distributors Incorrect: To impeach George Grenville To galvanize dissent to the Crown
What was the purpose of the Stamp Act?
To have the colonies pay for their own maintenance through taxes
Why was the committee of correspondence established in the 1760s?
To launch a dialogue among the colonies regarding new British policies
Why did colonial leaders move to form a united front with their fellow colonists in the 1760s?
To persuade Parliament to take their concerns seriously
Why did the British Parliament grant the East India Tea Company a monopoly on the colonial tea trade?
To punish Bostonians for their prior resistance Incorrect: To assert their supremacy over the colonies To rile the colonists Correct: To save the company
Why did the Abenaki Indians attack British settlements in 1754?
To use British settlers for ransom To start a war in order to eliminate white presence on the continent To take British settlers hostage Correct: To punish the British for incursions on their land
How did extensive trade networks give France an advantage over Britain in the early period of the French and Indian War?
Trade networks with Native Americans helped keep French troops supplied.
The 1764 Sugar Act provoked the colonists by increasing the tax on molasses imported into North America.
false
Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys gained control of the region later known as
Vermont
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
Examples of the symbol "liberty" appeared in all of the following except
a thin soup made only from colonial products called Liberty Consommé.
The tactics of American resistance to British colonial policy from the mid-1760s through the mid-1770s included
all of these: a) boycotts on the importation of British goods. b) mass demonstrations in the port towns. c) speeches and pamphlets challenging Britain's right to tax its colonial subjects
Adding to Congress's formal declaration, the Declaration of Independence
declared the United States independent of British rule.
A major blow in the relationship between the British and colonists occurred when Lord Dunmore proclaimed
escaped slaves who took up arms for the king would be freed.
"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 his addressing the upper elite, as they were the men who had voting power.
false
Thomas Paine's January 1776 pamphlet Common Sense argued all of the following except
it was common sense that in the struggle for independence, the slaves to whom Lord Dunmore offered freedom ought to be freed.
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
The activities of the Sons of Liberty in protesting the Stamp Act were characterized by?
public demonstrations.
Following the end of the French and Indian War, the colonial economy was characterized by
rising unemployment, stable wages, and an increase in trade. low unemployment, falling wages, and a downturn in trade. Correct: rising unemployment, falling wages, and a downturn in trade. low unemployment, falling wages, and an increase in trade.
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
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act resulted in the colonists' paying more money to the British treasury even as
taxes increased on foreign molasses. colonists in seaport cities benefited. French and Caribbean distillers benefited. Correct: the supply of cheap goods and money in the colonies decreased.
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
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 Catholicism in the colonies
An early skirmish between the colonists and British soldiers was 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
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 forming 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 American Declaration of Independence has been an inspirational political document for peoples around the world.
true
The brutal treatment of civilians by British forces under Col. 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; some forty-nine Americans and seventy-three British soldiers died in skirmishes.
true
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.
The Daughters of Liberty were
women who spun and wove cloth during the Townshend Duties boycott.
