CHAPTER 4 OF ALAN BRINKLEY'S 13TH EDITION OF AMERICAN HISTORY
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| 1686580822 | Each of the following was a reason for the colonists to enjoy their membership in the British Empire in the 1750s EXCEPT | British subsidies for colonial industry. | 0 | |
| 1686580823 | During the fifty years after the Glorious Revolution, the British policy of neglect of the colonial economy | was sustained by some Parliamentary leaders who believed relaxation of restrictions would spur commerce. | 1 | |
| 1686580824 | By the 1750s colonial legislatures had come to see themselves as | little parliaments. | 2 | |
| 1686580825 | A conference of colonial leaders gathered in Albany, New York in 1754 to discuss a proposal by Benjamin Franklin to | establish "one general government" for all the colonies. | 3 | |
| 1686580826 | Both the French and the English were well aware that the battle for control of North America would be determined in part by | which group could win the allegiance of native tribes. | 4 | |
| 1686580827 | The British victory in the Great War for the Empire | gave England control of most the settled regions of North America. | 5 | |
| 1686580828 | Prior to the Great War for the Empire, the Iroquois Confederacy | maintained their autonomy by avoiding a close relationship with both the French and the English. | 6 | |
| 1686580829 | Which of the following did NOT occur during the prime ministry of William Pitt? | Most of the fighting was done by colonial militia. | 7 | |
| 1686580830 | For which of the following was the result of the Great War for the Empire a disaster? | the Iroquois Confederacy | 8 | |
| 1686580831 | The English decision to reorganize the British Empire after 1763 was the result of | enormous war debts and large increases in territory. | 9 | |
| 1686580832 | George III influenced the growing strain between the colonies and Great Britain through | his insecure personality, which contributed to the instability of the British government during these years. | 10 | |
| 1686580833 | 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. | 11 | |
| 1686580834 | Which of the following was a consequence of the policies of the Grenville ministry? | British tax revenues in the colonies increased ten times. | 12 | |
| 1686580835 | British policies after 1763 | actually helped the colonial economy. | 13 | |
| 1686580836 | Colonists argued that the Stamp Act was not proper because | colonies could be taxed only by their provincial assemblies. | 14 | |
| 1686580837 | British authorities decided to repeal the Stamp Act primarily because of the | economic pressure caused by a colonial boycott of English goods. | 15 | |
| 1686580838 | Townshend believed his taxes on the colonists would not be protested because they were | "external" taxes—taxes on goods brought from overseas. | 16 | |
| 1686580839 | The Boston Massacre | was probably the result of panic and confusion. | 17 | |
| 1686580840 | Colonial "committees of correspondence" were created to | publicize grievances against England | 18 | |
| 1686580841 | American complaints concerning lack of representation made little sense to the English, who pointed out that | each member of Parliament represented the interests of the whole empire rather than a particular individual or geographical area | 19 | |
| 1686580842 | Colonists felt that when the English constitution was allowed to function properly, it created the best political system because it | distributed power among the three elements of society—the monarchy, the aristocracy, and the common people. | 20 | |
| 1686580843 | The Coercive or Intolerable Acts | made Massachusetts a martyr in the eyes of other colonies | 21 | |
| 1686580844 | Which of the following was NOT a step taken by the First Continental Congress? | It adopted a plan for a colonial union under British authority. | 22 | |
| 1686580845 | By the 1750s, most Americans felt little loyalty to the British crown. T/F | False | 23 | |
| 1686580846 | The French were able to forge good relations with the Indian tribes because they were more tolerant of the Indian way of life than the British. | True | 24 | |
| 1686580847 | Before the Great War for the Empire, England, France, and Spain had been at peace with each other for nearly half a century. | False | 25 | |
| 1686580848 | The Seven Years' War, the French and Indian War, and the Great War for the Empire are all the same war. | True | 26 | |
| 1686580849 | After the Peace of Paris of 1763, the English were inclined to let the colonies go their own way, with few restrictions. | False | 27 | |
| 1686580850 | England was fortunate that King George III was young, bright, and surprisingly mature for his age. | False | 28 | |
| 1686580851 | Because they needed protection, colonists in both the East and the West were glad to have regular British troops stationed permanently in America. | False | 29 | |
| 1686580852 | The formation of groups known as the "Paxton Boys" and the "Regulators" revealed that colonists in the West believed they were not being treated fairly by colonists in the East. | True | 30 | |
| 1686580853 | Colonists were concerned over the immediate impact of the Stamp Act, not its long-range implications. | False | 31 | |
| 1686580854 | Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, and in the Declaratory Act it declared that it would not tax the colonies in this way again. | False | 32 | |
| 1686580855 | Colonists responded to the Townshend duties with agreements not to import the taxed goods. | True | 33 | |
| 1686580856 | Americans wanted their representatives to "actually" represent them, while the British claimed that Parliament represented all British citizens, no matter where they lived. | True | 34 | |
| 1686580857 | Women, especially southern women, took no part in the protests and boycotts rising from the Coercive Acts. | False | 35 | |
| 1686580858 | Those who attended the Continental Congress did not intend for it to be a continuing organization. | False | 36 | |
| 1686580859 | The fighting at Lexington and Concord caused many who previously had little enthusiasm for the rebel cause to rally to it. | True | 37 |
