HY 120 chapter HW

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.

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

Coercive; Intolerable

Women participated in the colonial resistance in part through the?

Daughters of Liberty.

Which of the following statements about the American reaction to the Tea Act is accurate?

It linked the colonies together in a common experience of mass popular protest.

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

Lexington and Concord.

How did the colonial assemblies of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century compare to the House of Commons in the British Parliament?

Neither were particularly democratic.

Which of the following statements about the distribution of power in eighteenth-century England is accurate?

The unwritten constitution called for the distribution of power among the monarchy, the aristocracy, and the people.

Who was Ethan Allen?

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

In response to Charles Townshend's attempt to tax and control the flow of goods, Boston merchants helped organize a(n)________________ of all goods subject to the tax.

boycott

Which of the following were provisions of the Coercive Acts?

closing the port of Boston reducing the powers of the Massachusetts colonial government requiring colonists to board troops

The Mutiny Act of 1765 required

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

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

creating a series of boycotts.

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

dumped the cargo of several ships into the harbor.

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

farmers against landowners

The Tea Act of 1773 angered many colonists because it

gave special treatment to the East India Company. threatened to put American merchants out of business. seemed like taxation without representation.

The House of Burgesses rejected the most extreme proposals introduced by Patrick __________ , a passionate critic of British policies.

henry

The Coercive Acts were intended to ______ Massachusetts.

isolate

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

lowered the price of tea.

The citizen-soldiers of Massachusetts were known as

minutemen

The aim of the protests in the last week of 1773 was to

prevent the East India Company from landing its cargo.

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, permanently station British troops in the colonies, enforce the Mutiny, Sugar, and Currency Acts

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

Suspicions about democracy and the masses in both Britain and the colonies were most reflected in

voting requirements.

In 1773, the British East India Company

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

Although colonists in other colonial cities protested the Tea Act, the protest in ______ garnered the most attention.

Boston

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

Boston Massacre

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 congress