Relations with England Quiz 1: unit 2

Samuel Adams

Committees of correspondence

Why where the navigation acts initially not enforced by England?

England was at war with France and wanted the loyalty of the colonies, and a struggle was going on between the king of England and Parliament.

From their beginning, the navigation acts were strictly enforced

False

1774

First Continental Congress

Fort necessity

George Washington

Boston

Intolerable acts

The Treaty of Paris of 1763 returned:

Martinique to France, Guadalupe to France, and Haiti to France.

The man who said, "if this be treason, make the most of it," was:

Patrick Henry

Lord Grenville's program included the:

Quartering act

What group protested the stamp act

The Sons of liberty boycotted English goods

The ____ levied taxes to pay the salaries of those enforcing the law

The Townshend program

Which of the following was not an act that England passes to control colonial trade?

Tobacco act

The French and Indian war was the final colonial war between France and England

True

What permitted the English to search colonial homes?

Writs of assistance

Virginia

Lieutenant Governor Denwitty

In mercantilism, a country's wealth was determined by how much ____it had

Gold and silver

How did the British Parliament respond to the colonists opposition to the stamp act and boycott of English goods?

It drew up a declaration of rights and grievances, it repair old the stamp act, and it drew up the Virginia resolves.

What British acts did the First Continental Congress seek to revoke?

The intolerable acts

What acts were passed to punish Boston for the Boston tea party?

The intolerable acts

The English turn down the Albany plan of union because they preferred to deal with the colonies individually rather than as a group

True

The revolution was not caused so much by the acts of British government as by its attitudes

True

The shortage of money in the colonies forced the colonist to use a system of barter

True