US History chapter 5

The American Declaration of Independence has been an inspirational political document for peoples around the world.

True

The colonial political leader Joseph Galloway predicted that if the colonies were to achieve independence, a war between the northern and southern colonies might later occur.

True

Adding to Congress's formal declaration, the Declaration of Independence

declared the United States independent of British rule.

Thomas Paine's January 1776 pamphlet Common Sense argued that

democracy and a written constitution were more preferable to monarchy.

Ignoring the Proclamation of 1763 enabled colonists to do what action in the Borderlands?

expand westward

In 1773, American colonists disguised as Indians boarded three ships and created a civil protest in

Boston harbor.

Following the Boston Tea Party, Parliament imposed a series of restrictions on Massachusetts that were called the

Coercive or Intolerable Acts.

What two European powers allied with the Americans in the War for Independence?

France and Spain

The destruction of the Indian "middle ground" would not be completed until after the War of 1812.

True

Like white Americans during the American Revolution, Native Americans experienced

political divisions.

According to the doctrine of "virtual representation," the House of Commons represented very few residents of the British empire, despite their voting statuses.

False

The 1764 Sugar Act provoked the colonists by increasing the tax on molasses imported into North America.

False

The "shot heard 'round the world" began the American War of Independence, and took place in what city?

Concord

Which of the "founding fathers" argued that Parliament had no right to authorize the Writs of Assistance to combat smuggling?

James Otis

Which of the following was not a feature of the Stamp Act crisis of 1765?

The Stamp Act was passed by the Stamp Act Congress as a way to subvert the power of Parliament to tax the colonies.

During the Seven Years' War Great Britain treated the colonists as allies, yet only a few years later the colonists were treated as subordinates again.

True

In response to the colonists forming a Continental army, Britain declared the colonies in a state of rebellion and ordered the closing of all colonial ports.

True

British success in the Seven Years' War contributed to the making of the American Revolution because

the British government raised taxes to pay for the debt it incurred during the war.

When colonists insisted that because they were not represented in Parliament they could not be taxed by the British government, the British replied that they were represented by

virtual representation.

Committees of Correspondence in the colonies during the 1760s

were a group of colonial elites who exchanged ideas and information about resistance to the Sugar, Currency, and Stamp Acts.