US History Chapter 4 quiz
How did colonial opinion about Britain change after 1763?
Colonists began to disrespect British taxes.
What, specifically, did the British government fear would happen if settlers continued to push westward without restriction in 1763?
Fighting between Indian tribes and English frontiersmen would threaten western trade.
How does Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre differ from the actual event?
It depicts the British action as a planned and orderly attack.
How did the experience of the Seven Years' War influence British policy in North America?
It led to support for a complete reorganization of colonial policy.
Which piece of legislation, enacted in 1765, required the colonists to help provision and maintain the British Army?
Mutiny Act
Which of the following Native American groups suffered the biggest losses from the French and Indian War?
Ohio Valley tribes
What was a major force that worked (unsuccessfully) against the proliferation of taverns in New England?
Puritan culture
How did the outcome of the skirmishes at Concord affect the rebels in the American War for Independence?
Rebel success helped rally thousands of colonists to the rebel cause.
Which of the following best describes the colonial assemblies in the years leading up to the Seven Years' War?
They functioned as though they were little parliaments, and were almost as sovereign as the English Parliament itself.
Why would colonists object to taxation?
They had done their share in supporting troops.
What was the reaction of most British elites to the calls of the American colonists for constitutional change?
They regarded them as absurd and ignored or refuted them.
Colonists argued that the Stamp Act was not proper because
colonies could be taxed only by their provincial assemblies.
What action did Samuel Adams propose in response to the massacre?
creation of a "Committee of Correspondence"
How long did it take the English to wrest control of the Ohio Valley from Native American groups after the Seven Years' War?
fifty years
In an effort to keep peace between frontiersmen and Indians and provide for a more orderly settlement of the West, the British government
forbade settlers from crossing the mountains that divided the Atlantic coast from the interior.
Beyond what boundary were settlers forbidden to advance, according to the Proclamation of 1763?
the Appalachian Mountains
Which of the following was a major consequence of the Seven Years' War?
the major growth in British power
How did most colonial literature depict the Boston Massacre?
the murder of civilians by British soldiers
"No taxation without representation" centered around which of the following concepts?
the right of people to be taxed only with their own consent
The Boston Massacre
was probably the result of panic and confusion.
