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Practice Test Colonial America 1500-1783 1. The fact that the English settlers in America retained their rights and privileges as English subjects was significant because (A) it helped strengthen the idea of self government in the colonies (B) the King held absolute control over his subjects (C) it led to the signing of the Magna Carta (D) all of these. 2. Indentured servants were settlers who paid for their passage to the New World by (A) working without wages for a period of time (B) working as part of the crew aboard ship (C) serving in the colonial militia (D) all of these. 3. A colony which was actually owned by one person was called (A) royal colony (B) self governing colony (C) proprietary colony (D) maritime colony. 4. Which pair of colonies had the greatest degree of religious tolerance? (A) New York and Virginia (B) Maryland and Rhode Island (C) Massachusetts and Connecticut (D) New Jersey and Delaware. 5. The French and Indian War, which started in 1754, began over conflicting claims in the (A) Tennessee Valley (B) St. Lawrence Valley (C) Hudson Valley (D) Ohio Valley. 6. As a result of the French and Indian War, (A) Great Britain gained all of North America east of the Mississippi River except New Orleans (B) France lost most of its overseas possessions (C) Spain gained control over New Orleans (D) all of these. 7. The Navigation Acts were intended to promote a policy of (A) feudalism (B) laissez faire (C) communism (D) mercantilism. 8. The colonial system of trading rum for slaves in Africa, then trading the slaves in the West Indies for sugar and molasses, was known as (A) mercantilism (B) triangular trade (C) manufacturing (D) exporting and importing. 9. Before 1763, the Navigation Acts and other laws which regulated colonial commercial activity did not greatly affect the colonies because (A) the colonies were self-sufficient (B) the British followed a policy of salutary neglect (C) everything the colonists wanted came from Great Britain (D) the colonists agreed with these laws. 10. A famous victory for freedom of the press was won in a case involving (A) William Berkeley (B) Benjamin Franklin (C) Phyllis Wheatley (D) John Peter Zenger. 11. Which of the following did not contribute to the near failure of the Jamestown colony? (A) the location of the colony (B) the type of settlers (C) the time spent hunting for gold (D) the leadership of John Smith. 12. Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson helped establish the principle of (A) freedom of the press (B) representative government (C) freedom of religion (D) free public education. 13. The colonies that contained people with the greatest variety of occupations and backgrounds were the (A) Middle colonies (B) New England colonies (C) Royal colonies (D) Southern colonies. 14. In most of the thirteen colonies, the settlers gained experience in self-government by (A) choosing governors to administer colonial affairs (B) sending representatives to the British Parliament (C) electing members of colonial assemblies (D) regulating their trade with Great Britain. 15. The Salem Witchcraft Trials were evidence of (A) democratic progress (B) cultural improvement (C) superstition and intolerance (D) England’s violation of the right of selfgovernment. 16. The decisive victory in the French and Indian War was the capture of (A) Quebec (B) Louisburg (C) Montreal (D) Fort Duquesne. 17. On the eve of the American Revolution the colonists (A) were poor oppressed peasants much like the serfs of Russia (B) the American people as a group were probably the most free people in the world (C) the colonists were virtually independent, having attained the status of a Commonwealth (D) none of these. 18. OMIT 19. The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to (A) raise revenues to pay colonial judges and governors (B) control trade between the colonies and the West Indies (C) pay for colonial military defense (D) help reduce the debt from the French-Indian War. 20. Which of the following colonial victories brought France into the Revolutionary War on the side of the Americans? (A) Oriskany (B) Kings Mountain (C) Trenton (D) Saratoga. 21. The “Great Awakening” of the 18th century was (A) an intellectual and philosophical movement in America similar to the Enlightenment of Europe (B) the process by which Americans started to see the advantages of independence from Great Britain (C) the beginning of the first substantial American contribution to the fields of art and literature (D) a major religious revival. 22. Which of the following was not one of the Intolerable Acts? (A) Declaratory Act (B) Quebec Act (C) Quartering Act (D) Boston Port Act . 23. Which of the following was not one of the colonial South’s cash crops? (A) indigo (B) rice (C) flour (D) tobacco. 24. During the Revolutionary War, Loyalists would be least numerous among (A) the Anglican clergy (B) South Carolina planters (C) Pennsylvania Quakers (D) New Englanders. 25. OMIT 26. The “shot heard around the world” was fired at (A) Bunker Hill (B) Brandywine (C) Boston (D) Lexington. 27. Which of the following was true of the Stamp Act Congress? (A) it was the first unified government for all the American colonies (B) it provided an important opportunity for colonial stamp agents to discuss methods of enforcing the act (C) it rejected the assertion that the colonies ought to protest acts of Parliament deemed to be unconstitutional (D) it provided an opportunity for colonial leaders to meet and establish ties with one another. 28. One of the purposes of the Tea Act of 1773 was to (A) prevent over-consumption of tea in America (B) lower the price of tea in Great Britain by decreasing the demand for it in America (C) save the British East India Company from financial ruin (D) create a longterm shift in wealth from Britain’s North American colonies to its colony in India. 29. During the 1760s and 70s the most effective American tactic in gaining the repeal of the Stamp and Townshend Acts was (A) tarring and feathering British tax agents (B) sending petitions to the King and Parliament (C) boycotting British goods (D) destroying private property on which taxes had been levied. 30. During the first half of the 18th Century, colonial assemblies frequently used “the power of the purse” to (A) check royal governors (B) encourage political union among the colonies (C) obtain money from England (D) extend suffrage in the frontier settlements. 31. "These are the times that try men's souls" is found in a pamphlet by(A) Thomas Paine (B) Thomas Jefferson's (C) Bob Cobb (D) Patrick Henry 32. The Sons of Liberty were patriots who (A) opposed violent means (B) believed in the concept of passive resistance (C) secretly supported the British cause (D) willingly used violence to gain their ends. 33. The Boston Tea Party led immediately to which of the following sequence of events: (A) the meeting of the Boston Tea Congress and the passage of the Coercive Acts (B) passage of the intolerable Acts and the calling of the First Continental Congress (C) the meeting of the Second Continental Congress and the writing of the Declaration of Independence (D) the passage of the East Indies Tea Act and the Intolerable Acts. 34. The Declaratory Act was a statement defining (A) Parliament's right to legislate colonial affairs (B) the rights of the colonials (C) the King's relationship to the colonies (D) the colonies' relationship to the Indians. 35. The Townshend Acts prompted a response known as "Letters from a Farmer" in (A) Pennsylvania (B) Virginia (C) South Carolina (D) North Carolina. 36. The Stamp Act of 1765 called for taxation on (A) income (B) newspapers (C) all imports (D) all exports. 37. The significance of the Stamp Act Congress was that (A) it was a colonies-wide meeting to address grievances (B) the various colonies could not agree (C) the southern colonies successfully outvoted the New England colonies for the first time (D) the southern colonies hosted an all-colonial meeting for the first time. 38. Virtual representation meant that (A) every member of Parliament represented every citizen of the Empire (B) every member of Parliament was elected by a designated area and represented the interests of that area only (C) the colonial empire had no representation in Parliament (D) every member of Parliament represented a designated continent upon which Britain had colonies. 39. Americans were furious over the Proclamation Act of 1763 because they saw it as (A) a means to exterminate the Indians (B) structuring the future legislatures of the colonies (C) a restriction of court sanctions in the colonies (D) a restriction of their expansion. 40. The colonists learned that their strongest weapon against unpopular British tax measures was (A) the boycott of British goods (B) nonviolent public demonstration (C) violent public demonstration (D) disapproval of the measures by the colonial assemblies. 41. During the period 1765-1770, the Patriots who opposed British policy (A) denied the authority of King George III over the colonists (B) denied the right of Parliament to regulate colonial trade (C) demanded that the colonists be granted direct representation in Parliament (D) argued that power to tax the colonies should remain with the colonial legislatures (E) called for a renewal of war with the French in Canada. 42. The American Revolution had all of the following effects except (A) It contributed to the immediate or gradual abolition of slavery in all of the northern and middle states before 1830 (B) It led to the total separation of church and state in America (C) It opened up the trans-Appalachian West for settlement (D) It provided slaves with expanded political and civil rights. 43. In the Treaty of Paris of 1783, the United States obtained all of the following except (A) the acquisition of West Florida (B) independence from Great Britain (C) the right to fish along the coast of Canada (D) the acquisition of the land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River (E) the right of navigation on the Mississippi River. 44. In response to the Coercive Acts, the First Continental Congress (A) approved the Declaration of Independence (B) approved the use of force against British troops (C) rejected all further allegiance to the King of England (D) approved only a non importation, non-consumption, and non exportation agreements against Great Britain. 45. Between 1778 and 1781 the British strategy in the Revolutionary War concentrated on the (A) capture of Boston and New York City (B) seizure and control of the Hudson River Valley (C) capture of Philadelphia (D) capture of southern cities and the control of the southern states (E) destruction of George Washington’s army. 46. When the British Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, it (A) resumed the policy of internal taxation that it had inaugurated with the Stamp Act (B) exempted the New England colonies from the new taxes (C) levied new colonial import taxes on tea and several other products (D) levied a new colonial import tax on tea only (E) closed the port of Boston. 47. The main goals of the Albany Congress of 1754 were to promote colonial unity and (A) secure the allegiance of the Iroquois Confederation (B) prepare for an expected attack by the Iroquois Confederation (C) protest new taxes levied by Parliament (D) plan for an attack on Spanish colonies (E) protest against the Navigation Acts. 48. OMIT 49. OMIT 50. OMIT 51. Which of the following statements about the Loyalists is true? (A) Most left the US after the signing of the Declaration of Independence (B) They tended to be Anglican in religion in each region of the colonies (C) Massachusetts produced more of them than any other colony (D) Most lived west of the Appalachians (E) Most were executed after the signing of the Declaration of Independence 52. The major result of England’s attempts to tighten the enforcement of its mercantilist policies in America after the French and Indian War was to (A) increase England’s prosperity (B) increase the amount of revenue collected in the colonies (C) increase England’s control of the colonial governments (D) encourage French colonization in North America (E) push the colonists toward open resistance to English rule. 53. OMIT 54. OMIT 55. American resistance to Parliament’s Townshend Acts led directly to the (A) Boston Massacre (B) Boston Tea Party (C) First Continental Congress (D) Declaratory Act (E) battles of Lexington and Concord. 56. OMIT 57. The primary American objection to the Stamp Act was that (A) it was an internal tax, whereas Americans were prepared to accept only external taxes (B) it was the first tax of any kind ever imposed by Britain on the colonies (C) its proposed tax rates were so high as to have crippled the colonial economy (D) it was a measure for raising revenue from the colonies but it had not been approved by the colonists through their representatives (E) it constituted an unwarranted interference with the colonial economy in a manner that would have greatly restrained free trade. 58. In seeking diplomatic recognition from foreign powers during the War for Independence the American government found it necessary to (A) make large financial payments to the governments of France, Spain, and Holland (B) promise to cede large tracts of American territory to France upon a victorious conclusion of the war (C) demonstrate its financial stability and self-sufficiency (D) demonstrate a determination and potential to win independence (E) agree to grant France a specially favored trading status. 59. OMIT 60. During the American War of Independence, the battle of Saratoga was most significant because it (A) left the British with inadequate resources to carry on the war (B) prevented the British from ever mounting another successful invasion of American territory (C) allowed American forces to seize large portions of Canada (D) persuaded France to begin supporting the Americans openly (E) caused Holland to delay its decision to enter the war on the side of the British. 61. The major result of England’s attempts to tighten the enforcement of its mercantilist policies in America after the French and Indian War was to (A) increase England’s prosperity (B) increase the amount of revenue collected in the colonies (C) increase England’s control of the colonial governments (D) encourage French colonization in North America (E) push the colonists toward open resistance to English rule. 62. Parliament claimed the right to tax and legislate for England’s American colonies whenever it desired, without direct American representation in Parliament, through passage of (A) the Declaratory Act (B) the Proclamation of 1763 (C) the Townshend Acts (D) the Intolerable Acts (E) the Currency Act. 63. Which Revolutionary War battle is considered the “turning point” in the War because it led to direct French assistance for the Americans? (A) Trenton (B) Bunker Hill (C) Princeton (D) Yorktown (E) Saratoga. 64. The primary reason for French aid to the American colonists was (A) French belief in the ideals for which the American revolution stood (B) English attacks against French naval vessels along the French coast (C) American promises to restore Louisiana and Quebec to French control in return for French aid (D) French desires for revenge against England and hopes to regain much of the territory lost to the British in the Seven Years’ War (E) French belief that aid to the Americans would force Britain to consider forming a confederation with France, allowing them to jointly dominate European affairs. 65. On March 5, 1782, the House of Commons authorized King George III to make peace with the American colonies as a result of General Charles Cornwallis’ defeat at (A) Saratoga (B) Guilford Courthouse (C) Yorktown (D) King’s Mountain (E) Charleston. 66. General The Lord Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown resulted largely from the (A) failure of the British to capture and hold Charleston as a base of operations (B) French fleet winning control of the Chesapeake Bay (C) mass desertion of Hessians from the British army (D) arrival of fresh Spanish soldiers to reinforce Washington’s army (E) the defection of Benedict Arnold at West Point. 67. OMIT. 68. According to the Olive Branch Petition, the colonies (A) were ready to declare their independence from Great Britain (B) remained loyal to King George III (C) demanded that British troops immediately leave the colonies (D) agreed to raise a common army to defend themselves (E) accepted the Stamp Act if they were allowed to elect members of Parliament. 69. Which of the following describes the major grievance of American patriots from 1764 to the outbreak of the Revolution? (A) The Stamp Act taxes raised costs to a level that seriously weakened domestic commerce in the colonies (B) The Sugar Act prohibited the importation of sugar and thereby ruined the rum industry (C) High import duties made it very difficult for the average colonist to buy tea (D) English taxation policies were being used to undermine the independence of colonial legislatures (E) New taxes were destroying American wealth.