The Unfinished Nation Chapter 4

Which group of Native Americans actively worked on behalf of the Proclamation of 1763?

Cherokee

Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by passing the ____ Acts, which Americans referred to as the ____ Acts

Coercive, Intolerable

The Mutiny Act of 1765 required

Colonists to help provision and maintain the British army stationed in America.

What was the most important effect on the Mutiny Act, the Sugar Act, and the Currency Act on the colonists?

Colonists viewed them as an attack on colonial political power.

The ____ Propositions contained provisions for colonial self-taxation.

Conciliatory

After the Iroquois granted trading alliances to the British, the French responded by

Constructing new fortresses in the Ohio Valley

The First Continental Congress wanted to stop all trade with Great Britain by

Creating a series of boycotts

Women participated in the colonial resistance in part through the

Daughters of Liberty

The Day-to-day administration of colonial affairs by England's government in the 1700's tended to be

Decentralized

The British wanted to avoid warfare on the frontier for fear it would

Disrupt trade

On the night of December 16,1773, 150 Boston men disguised as Native Americans

Dumped the cargo of several ships into the harbor.

The French and Indian War began when George Washington attacked a detachment near Fort _____ in what is now ______

Duquesne; Pittsburgh

The British army's practice of _______ of colonists into military service led colonies to question English interference in colonial affairs.

Impressment

The first phase of the French and Indian War began when

The French attacked Fort Necessity

The ______ ______ of five nations represented the most powerful native presence in the Ohio Valley.

Iroquois Confederacy

The Coercive Acts were intended to ____ Massachusetts

Isolate

The French had better relations with native North American peoples than the English because the French

did not challenge native social customs

Which of the following describes the general nature of the internal rebellions that occurred in the colonies in the 1760's?

farmers against landowners

The Citizen-soldiers of Massachusetts were known as

minutemen

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 concessions William Pitt made in the third phase of war?

reparations for loss of life or property as a result of fighting

The British adhered to ____ representation, whereby everyone had a voice in Parliament, even if they had no elected representatives.

virtual

Both the French and the English knew that the struggle to control North America would be determined in large part by

winning the allegiance of the native peoples

In response to Charles Townshend's attempt to tax and control the flow of goods, Boston merchants helped organize an _____ of all goods subject to the tax.

Boycott

Which of the following statements about the English constitution is not correct?

It establishes fixed, unchangeable rules presented in a codified list.

Under the provisions of the Tea Act of 1773,

Britain's East India Company could directly export its product to the colonies without paying the same taxes as colonial merchants

The American theater of the Seven Years' War was a conflict among the

British French and Iroquois

The first real proposal for a general government to rule all colonies was the ____ Plan.

Albany

Under the Proclamation of 1763, white settlement west of the ____ was forbidden

Appalachian Mountains

The fall of Quebec in 1759 marked the

Beginning of the end of the war

The Events of March 5,1770, when a group of British soldiers opened fire on a crowd, are known as the

Boston Massacre

In the summer of 1765, members of this newly organized group terrorized agents attempting to enforce the Stamp Act

Sons of Liberty

The ______ Act imposed a tax on printed documents.

Stamp Act

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 Currency Act of 1764 required the colonial assemblies to

Stop issuing paper currency

What did George Washington do in the summer of 1754 at Fort Necessity?

Surrender to the French

In Massachusetts, ____ became increasingly important centers of resistance in the 1760's and 1770's

Taverns

What did the Virginia Resolves declare?

1. Americans had the same rights as the English 2. Only the Virginia assembly could tax Virginians

In 1763, England found itself desperately in need of revenues because of which of the following?

1. Cost of many years of fighting 2. The need to administer new territory in North America

The British decided to ultimately repeal the Stamp Act because of

1. Economic pressure 2. A colonial boycott

The First Continental Congress did which of the following?

1. Endorsed a list of grievances 2. Recommended preparations be made for defense against British Attack

How did George III contribute to conflict between England and the Colonies?

1. He was determined to reassert the authority of the monarchy. 2. He suffered from bouts of insanity. 3. He appointed unstable coalitions of ministers

Although the colonies in 1754 were reluctant to cooperate, they had successfully worked with one another with regard to matters such as

1. Intercolonial Trade 2. A colonial postal service 3. Road construction

Which of the following statements about the Sugar Act of 1764 are correct?

1. It strengthened the duty on sugar while lowering it on molasses. 2. It established new courts to try accused smugglers.

In general, which of the following groups interacted comfortably and peaceably with Native Americas?

1. Jesuit missionaries 2. French Fur traders

Grenville's program succeeded in antagonizing

1. Northern Merchants with increased taxes and restraints on commerce 2. Settlers who resented the closing of the West to land speculation and fur trading. 3. Indebted Southern planters by raising taxes and preventing land speculation.

Before 1763, colonial assemblies had the power to do which of the following?

1. Pass laws 2. Approve political appointments 3. Levy taxes 4. Make appropriations

Which of the following were provisions of the Coercive Acts?

1. Reducing the powers of the Massachusetts colonial government 2. Closing the port of Boston 3. Requiring colonists to board troops

The Tea Act of 1773 angered many colonists because it

1. Seemed like taxation without representation 2. Threatened to put American merchants out of business. 3. Gave special treatment to the East India Company.

Which of the following acts by colonists during the French and Indian War incited resentment among the British?

1. Selling goods to the French in the West Indies 2. Making few financial contributions to the war.

Which of the following did Grenville's administration do?

1. Send British ships to patrol colonial waters in search of smugglers 2. Permanently station British troops in the colonies 3. Impose the Mutiny,Sugar and Currency Acts

Why did English politicians exert little control over the North American colonies prior to 1763?

1. The ineptitude of provincial governors 2. For fear it would disrupt commerce

Which of the following was true of royal officials appointed to serve in America as governors, customs collectors or naval officers

1. They tended to get their jobs through bribery or favoritism. 2. Some remained in England and hired substitutions to take their places

By what means did the French try to control their empire in North America?

1. Trading Posts 2. Feudal Estates 3. Mississippi Plantations 4. Fortresses

In 1773, The British East India Company

1. Was on the verge of bankruptcy 2. Was sitting on large stocks of tea that it could not sell in England.

Why was the Proclamation of 1763 ineffective?

1. White settlers refused to honor it. 2. British authorities failed to enforce it

Which inflammatory measure did Charles Townshend street through Parliament in 1767?

1.Disbanding the New York Assembly 2. Imposing new taxes on imports

Who was Ethan Allen?

A land speculator that took up the cause of the Green Mountain farmers

Which of the following best characterizes the first phase of the French and Indian War?

A local conflict in which encroaching English colonists fought to defend themselves against Native American raids

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 they remained largely passive during the French and Indian War, The Iroquois were formally allied with the ____

English

In 1774 and 1775, who debated different proposal in its efforts to please the American colonies?

English Parliament

The Stamp Act crisis subsided largely because the

English backed down

Americans viewed constitutions as

Fixed and permanent.

The midnight rides of Paul Revere and Williams Dawes were significant because they

Gave Americans at Lexington and Concord warning of the British forces' approach

The _____ _____ led to a growing power of the English Parliament over the king.

Glorious Revolution

The conflicts among the English, French and Iroquois in North America were part of a longer series of conflicts between the English and French that began just after the ____ in England

Glorious Revolution

In the aftermath of King George's War, The Iroquois Confederacy ____ The British

Granted trading concessions to

British General Thomas Gage initially hesitated to arrest ____ near Lexington

John Hancock and Samuel Adams

On April 18,1775, British General Thomas Gage sent a detachment of soldiers to

Lexington and Concord

Lord North assumed that Americans would support the Tea Act because it

Lowered the Price of Tea

Unlike William Pitt, George Grenville maintained that the colonies

Needed to help pay for their own defense and administration.

The House of Burgesses rejected the most extreme proposals introduced by Patrick _____, a Passionate critic of British policies

Patrick Henry

George Grenville took what office in 1763?

Prime minister

The ______ was a response to fears that settlement in the upper Ohio Valley would spark war with Native Americans.

Proclamation of 1763

Taverns in the American colonies in the 1760's and 1770's were also known as

Public Houses

In 1772, Samuel Adams proposed the creation of a committee of correspondence to

Publicize grievances against England

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

The _______ _______ were the western boundary of French-claimed territory in North America at the end of the seventeenth century

Rocky Mountains

The leading figure in stirring outrage over the Boston Massacre was

Samuel Adams

The French and Indian War was part of a larger struggle between England and France called

The Sevens' Year War

The events at Lexington and Concord are most significant because

They marked the beginning of the American Revolution

The Grenville program succeeded in

Uniting colonists in opposition to the British government

The Stamp Act of 1765 angered colonists more than other British acts because it

Was an attempt to raise money rather than regulate commerce.

Resistance to imperial authority was most concentrated among colonial

assemblies

During the second phase of the French and Indian War, William Pitt began to transform the war effort in America by

brining it fully under British control