Chapter 4- The Empire in Transition
Provisions of Coercive Acts:
1) reducing powers of the Massachusetts colonial government 2) closing port of Boston 3) requiring colonists to board troops
Two titles of William Pitt:
1) secretary of state 2) prime minister
Which of the following was true of royal officials appointed to serve as Americas governors, customs collectors, or naval officers?
1) some remained in England and hired substitutes to take their place 2) They tended to get their jobs throughbribery if favoritism
Grenvilles program succeeded in antagonizing:
1) southern planters by raising taxes and preventing land speculation. 2) northern merchants with increased taxes nd restraints on commerce 3) settlers who resented the closing of the West to land speculation and fur trading
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
Which group of native Americans actively worked on behalf of the Proclamation of 1763?
Cherokee
After the Iroquois granted trading alliances to the British, the French responded by:
Constructing new fortresses in the Ohio Valley
People of European ancestry (especially French ancestry) born in the Americas are known as:
Creoles
Although they remained largely passive during the French and Indian War , the Iroquios were formally allied with the:
English
The ___________ ____________ led to a growing power of the English Parliament over the king.
Glorious revolution
The House of Burgesses rejected the most extreme proposals introduced by Patrick _________________, a passionate critic of British policies.
Henry
The enormous debt incurred in the French and Indian War propmted many Bristish to call for:
Imperial reorganization of colonies
British General Thomas Gage initially hesitated to arrest _____________ near Lexington.
John Hancock, Samuel Adams
True or false: The Iroquois Confederacy maintained its autonomy from control by either the French or the Britsh.
True
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 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
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 tax.
boycott
The Mutiny act of 1765 required:
colonists to help provision and maintain the British army stationed in America
The British wanted to avoid warfare on the frontier for fear it would:
disrupt trade
Americans viewed the constitution as:
fixed and permanent
The midnight rides of Paul Revere and William Daweswere signifigant because they:
gave Americans at Lexington and Concord warning of the British forces approach
Coercive acts INTENDED to ________________ Massachusetts. (instead they became a martyr)
isolate
Who was Ethan Allen? (revolutionary war hero)
land speculator that took up the cause of the Green Mountain farmers
Unlike William Pitt, George Greenville maintained that the colonies:
needed to help pay for their own defense and administration
The first phase of the French and Indian war began when:
the French attacked Fort Necessity
Why was it necessary for the British to issue the Proclamation of 1763?
white settlers had begun moving into tribal lands
Which of the following did Grenvilles administration do?
1) Impose mutiny, sugar, and currency acts 2) Send british troops to patrol colonial waters in search of smugglers 3) permanently station British troops in the colonies
In general, which of the following groups interacted comfortably and peaceably with Native Americans?
1) Jesuit missionaries 2)French fur traders
The British decided to ultimately repeal the stamp act because of:
1) colonial boycott 2) economice pressure
The continental congress did which of the following?
1) endorsed a list of grievances 2) recommenede preperations to be made for defense against British
Why did English politicians exert little control over the North American colonies prior to 1763?
1) fear it would disrupt commerce 2) the ineptitude or provinicial governors
The Tea act of 1773 angered many colonists because it:
1) gave special treatment to the East India company 2) seemed like taxation without representation 3) threatened to put american merchants out of business
Which statements about the Sugar Act of 1764 are correct?
1) it strengthened duty on sugar while lowering it on molasses 2) It established new courts to try accused smugglers
Before 1763, colonial assemblies had the power to do which of the following?
1) pass laws 2) approve political appointments 3) make appropriations 4) levy taxes
The first real proposal of government to rule all colonies was the _________________ Plan.
Albany
It was difficult for Americans to protest against British legislation of the 1760s largely because:
Americans also fought among each other
Although the colonists in other colonial cities protested the Tea Act, the protest in ______________ garnered the most attention. (Boston Tea Party)
Boston
The events of March 5, 1770, when a group of British soldiers opened fire on a crowd, are known as the:
Boston massacre
The ______________ ____________ were the western boundary of the French-claimed territory in North America at the end of the 17th century
Rocky Mountains
The ___________ act imposed a tax on printed documents. (1765) [newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, deeds, wills, licences]
Stamp
To dispute English taxes in the Americas , James Otis persuaded his coleagues n the Massachsetts assembly to meet with their colonial delegates. This multicolony group met in 1765 and became known as the ____________ _____________ congress.
Stamp Act
What did George Washington do in the summer of 1754 at Fort Necessity?
Surrendered to the French
The French and Indian War was part of a larger struggle between england and France called (late 1750s, early 1760s)
The Seven Years' War
