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TOPIC 2 TEST
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Which of the following is true of the Stamp Act Congress? d. It provided an important
opportunity for colonial leaders to meet and establish toes with one another.
The Newburgh Conspiracy was concerned with:b. the use of the Continental Army to create a
more centralized Union of the states.
During the 1760=s and 1770=s the most effective American tactic in gaining repeal of the Stamp and
Townshend Acts was: c. boycotting British goods.
One of the purposes of the 1773 Tea Act was: c. save the British East India Company from
financial ruin.
During the American War of Independence, the battle of Saratoga was most significant because it:
d. persuaded France to begin supporting the Americans openly.
The Molasses Act was intended to enforce England=s mercantilist polices by: b. forcing the
colonists to buy sugar from other British colonists rather than from foreign producers.
The anti-slavery language was stricken from the first draft of the Declaration of Independence in
1776 because: e. the southern colonies were dependent upon slave labor.
The Townshend Acts: d. were import taxes on glass, tea, and paper to help pay for imperial
administration.
Which of the following was a colonial objection to the Stamp Act? c. The taxes meant the
movement of scarce colonial resources to Britain.
The Battle of Saratoga resulted in: c. France entering the war on the side of the colonies.
The Virginia Resolves: c. protested the Stamp Act of 1765.
The most important consequence of the Boston Tea Party was the: d. Enactment by Parliament of
the Coercive Acts.
The British response to the American claim of Ano taxation without representation@ was that: d.
members of Parliament represented the interests of all people in the British Empire.
In the negotiations that led to the Treaty of Paris and formally ended the Revolution, the Americans:
c. won many concessions through separate bargaining with the British.
According to the Olive Branch Petition the colonies: b. remained loyal to King George III.
The Declaration of Independence was based on the political philosophy of: d. John Locke.
After the American Revolution, the Loyalists did NOT: e. create their own American colony in
Ohio.
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were significant because: c. they marked the first organized
battles between British regulars and colonial militiamen and ended any hopes for a peaceful
resolutions to the disagreement between England and its colonies.
Common Sense was written by: a. Thomas Paine.
ASmall islands not capable of protecting themselves are the proper objects for government to take
under their care; but there is something absurd, in supporting a Continent to be perpetually governed
by an island.@ This quotation is from: b. Thomas Paine=s Common Sense.
Between 1778 and 1781 the British strategy in the Revolutionary War concentrated on the: d.
capture of southern cities and the control of the southern states.
AThe Declaration of Rights and Grievances@ enacted by the First Continental Congress was written
in response to the: b. Intolerable Acts.
In 1776, when Abigail Adams implored her husband, John Adams, to ARemember the Ladies@ as he
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created a new government, she argued that: a. women would not feel bound to support the laws of
a government in which they had no actual representation.
One of the first to die in the struggle over colonial freedom between Great Britain and the colonists
was: b. Crispus Attucks.
The action portrayed in the above cartoon led Britain to enact the: c. Coercive Acts.