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1. Each of the following was a reason for the colonists to enjoy their membership in the British
Empire in the 1750s EXCEPT:
A) military protection from the Indians and the French
B) political stability
C) British subsidies for colonial industry
D) opportunity for trade
2. During the fifty years after the Glorious Revolution, the British policy of the colonial
economy:
A) dissipated as the kings reasserted their power in the British government.
B) was lessened by the capabilities of royal officials in America
C) was sustained by some Parliamentary leaders who believed relaxation of restrictions
would spur commerce
D) was lessened as officials in London learned more about the colonial economies
3. By the 1750s colonial legislatures had come to see themselves as
A) little parliaments
B) agents of the royal governor
C) powerless
D) agents for domestic reform
4. A conference of colonial leaders gathered in Albany, New York, in 1754 to discuss a proposal
by Benjamin Franklin to:
A) establish “one general government” for all of the colonies
B) negotiate a treaty with the French
C) expand a system of intercolonial roads
D) extend the operation of the colonial postal service
5. Both the French and the English were well aware that the battle for control of North America
would be determined in part by:
A) who had the Dutch on their side
B) whose king was the best commander
C) which group could win the alliance of native tribes
D) whose armies could fight “Indian” fashion
6. The British victory in the Great War for the empire:
A) expelled France and Spain from North America
B) gave England control of most the settled regions of North America
C) resulted in the defeat of all North American Indian Tribes
D) resulted in less contact between Britain and America
7. Prior to the Great War for the empire, the Iroquois Confederacy:
A) traded exclusively with the English
B) traded exclusively with the French
C) maintaining their authority by avoiding a close relationship with both French and the
English
D) traded only with the five tribes that made up the Confederacy
8. Which of the following did not occur during the Great War for the empire?
A) Americans were reimbursed for supplies requisitioned in their British colonies
B) Colonial assemblies were in charge of recruitment in their respective colonies
C) The French lost the city of Quebec
D) Most of the fighting was done by colonial militia
9. For which of the following was the result of eh Great War for the empire a disaster?
A) English frontiersmen and traders
B) Colonial merchants
C) The Iroquois Confederacy
D) The Royal Africa Company
10. The English decision to recognize the British Empire after 1763 was the result of:
A) colonial demands for more efficient government
B) problems in the merchant community and their desire for regulation
C) colonial unrest, which the British government planned to put down before it became
serious
D) a need to administer an empire that was now twice as large as it had been
11. George III influenced the growing strain between the colonies and Great Britain through:
A) his alliance with the Whigs led by William Pitt
B) his psychological illness during the 1760s and 1770s
C) his willingness to defer while Parliament dictated increasingly harsh terms to the
colonies
D) his insecure personality, which contributed to the instability of the British government
during these years
12. In an effort to keep peace between frontiersmen and Indians and provide for a more orderly
settlement of the West, the British government:
A) forbade settlers from crossing the mountains that divided the Atlantic coast from the
interior.
B) gave Indian tribes and confederations colonial status
C) allowed interior settlement only if settlers bought land from the tribes
D) put forts in the Ohio Valley to protect settlers there
13. Which of the following was a consequence of the policies of the Grenville ministry?
A) British tax revenues in the colonies increased ten times
B) Colonists effectively resisted and paid little tax
C) Many colonial merchants went out of business
D) Colonial assemblies assumed the responsibility for taxing their individual colonies
14. The Regulator movement of 1771 consisted of:
A) Pennsylvania frontiersmen who demanded attention from the colonial government for
their defense needs
B) collection
C) northern merchants who refused to comply with the restrictions of the Grenville
program
D) western farmers who protested the Proclamation of 1763
15. British policies after 1763:
A) destroyed the economy of the American colonies
B) stripped colonial assemblies of their authority
C) created a deep sense of economic unease, particularly in colonial cities
D) actually helped the colonial economy
16. Colonists argued that the Stamp Act was not proper because:
A) it affected only a few people, so the burden was not shared
B) the money raised would not be spent in the colonies
C) colonies could not be taxed only by the provincial assemblies
D) the tax was too high
17. British authorities decided to repeal the Stamp Act primarily because of the:
A) passage of the “Virginia Resolves
B) well-reasoned petitions of the Stamp Act Congress
C) intimidation tactics employed by the Sons of Liberty
D) economic pressure caused by a colonial boycott of English goods
18. Townshend believed his taxes on the colonists would not be protested because they were:
A) “external” taxes—taxes on goods brought from overseas
B) not going to be strictly enforced
C) lower the Stamp Act taxes
D) to support colonial projects
19. The Boston Massacre:
A) was probably the result of panic and confusion by British soldiers
B) reversed the calming trend that had occurred after the repeal of the Townsend Acts
C) made John Adams a leader of the resistance
D) killed over thirty members of the resistance
20. Colonial “committees of correspondence” were created to:
A) keep colonial intellectuals in contact with each other
B) publicize grievances against England
C) improved the writing skills of young gentlemen
D) correspond with English radicals who supported the American cause
21. American complaints concerning lack of representation made little sense to the English who
pointed out that:
A) over eighty percent of the population of Great Britain was entitled to vote for
members of Parliament
B) each colony was represented by an agent and a designated member of Parliament
C) each member of Parliament represented the interests of the whole empire rather than a
particular individual or geographical area
D) American participation in parliamentary discussions would bind them to unpopular
decisions
22. Colonists felt that when the English constitution was allowed to function properly, it created
the best political system because it:
A) distributed power among the three elements of society – the monarchy, the
aristocracy, and the common people
B) created a republican government
C) created a democracy
D) put power in the hands of those suited to govern
23. The dispute over the Tea Act:
A) led to the weakening of the colonial position by women who refused to support the
boycott
B) derived from doubling of the tax on tea
C) led to a resistance similar to earlier protests
D) caused the implementation of the Intolerable Acts
24. The Coercive Acts or “Intolerable Acts”:
A) isolated Massachusetts from the other colonies
B) made Massachusetts a martyr in the eyes of other colonies
C) created no concern among any group other than merchants
D) increased the power of colonial assemblies
25. Which of the following was not a step taken by the First Continental Congress?
A) It adopted a plan for a colonial union under British authority
B) It endorsed a statement of grievances
C) It called for military preparations
D) It called for a series of boycotts
26. The Intolerable Acts of 1774 included all of the following EXCEPT?
A) the closing of Boston Harbor
B) making the Massachusetts council and judiciary appointive
C) new taxes on glass, tea, lead, and paper
D) allowing trials of accused colonial officials to be moved to England
E) authorizing the governor to limit town meetings to as few as one a year
27. Which of the following is typical of the role that colonial women played during the
Townshend crisis?
A) remaining at home to ensure that family affairs continued to function in an orderly
fashion
B) providing refreshments at Sons of Liberty meetings
C) encouraging the men to be moderate and peaceful
D) organizing spinning bees
28. England passed the Stamp Act in 1765 to?
A) punish Americans for protests to the Sugar Act
B) control the American press
C) raise money to reduce England’s national debt
D) allow for illegal search-and-seizure of smugglers
E) allow Americans to settle the Ohio River Valley
29. One accomplishment of the First Continental Congress was to?
A) enact the Declaration of Independence
B) raise an army to resist British aggression in Massachusetts
C) provide funds for Fort Ticonderoga
D) secure an alliance with France
E) petition the king to recognize the colonists’ rights
30. A writ of assistance?
A) allowed the British to ransack a colonial merchant’s house in search of illegal goods
B) helped colonial merchants cut through the red tape of imperial trade regulations
C) required prosecutors to present evidence of probable cause for suspicion of smuggling
D) required that specified colonial products to be landed in Britain before being shipped
to other countries
31. The original cause of the French and Indian War was
A) conflict in Europe between Britain and France
B) British removal of the “Acadian” French settlers from Nova Scotia
C) competition between French and English colonists for land in the Ohio River valley
D) a French attack on George Washington’s Virginia headquarters
32. The French and Indian War eventually became part of the larger orld conflict known as
A) the Seven Years’ War
B) the War of Jenkins’s Ear
C) the War of the Austrian Succession
D) King George’s War
33. The French and Indian War created conflict between the British and the American military
because
A) the American soldiers had failed to support the British military effort
B) the British regulars had carried the brunt of the fighting
C) British officers treated the American colonial militia with contempt
D) American soldiers refused to accept orders from British officers
34. The event that precipitated the first real shooting between the British and American colonists
was
A) the British attempt to seize Bunker Hill and the Old north Church
B) the British attempt to seize colonial supplies and leaders at Lexington and Concord
C) the Boston Tea Party
D) the Boston Massacre
Identification
Unification effort that Benjamin Franklin nearly led to success by
his eloquent leadership and cartoon artistry
Allies of the French against the British, who continued to fight
under Pontiac even after the peace settlement in 1763
The basic economic and political theory by which seventeenth and
eighteenth century European powers governed their overseas
colonies
Hated British courts in which juries were not allowed and
defendants were assumed guilty until proven innocent
Rapidly mobilized colonial militiamen whose refusal to disperse
sparked the battle of the Revolution
Popular term for British regular troops, scorned as “lobster backs”
and “bloody backs” by Bostonians and other colonials
Wealthy president of the Continental Congress and “King of the
Smugglers”
Organizational genius who turned raw colonial recruits into tough
professional soldiers
German mercenaries hired by George III to fight the American
revolutionaries