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900210890Change in colonial policy by the Britsih Government that helped precipitate the American Revolution involved _____compelling the American colonist to shoulder some of the financial costs of the empire1
900210891When it came to the Revolution it could be said that the Americna colonist werereluctant revolutionaries2
900210892In a broad sense, America was a revolutionary force sincethe day of its discovery by the Europeans.3
900210893The American colonial exponents of republicanism argued that a just society depends onthe willingness of all citizens to subordinate their private interest to the common good4
900210894Republican belief held that the stability of society and the authority of the government depended onthe virtue of its citizenry5
900210895The readical whigs fearedthe arbitrary power of the monarchy6
900210896Mercantilist believed that a countrys economic wealth could be measured by the amount ofgold and silver in its treasury7
900210897the founding of the Americna colonies by the British was undertaken ina haphazard manner8
900210898Under mercantilist doctrine the American colonies were expected to all of the following:supply britain with raw materials not available there, furnish shops, seamen and trade to bolster the strength of the Royal Navy, provide a market for British Manufactured goods, refrain from exporting woolen cloth.9
904587141What were the first Navigation Laws designed to eliminate?Dutch shoppers from the American carrying trade10
904587142The British Parliament enacted currency legislation that was intended primarily to benefitBritish Merchants11
904587143The British Crowns royal veto of colonial legislation was used sparingly byThe British Parliament12
904587144Under the mercantilist systme the british governmetn reserved the right to do all of the following regarding the American coloniesrestrict the passage of lax bankruptcy laws, nullify any colonial legislation deemed bad for the mercantilist system, restrain the colonies from printing paper currency, enumerate products that must be shipped to britain.13
904587145before 1763, the navigation laws were ________ enforced in the American coloniesloosely14
904587146despite the benefits of the mercantile system, the american colonists disliked it becauseit kept them in a state of perpetual exonomic adolescence15
904587147IN some way the Navigation laws were a burden to certain colonist becausethey stifled economic initiative (the ability to be creative economically)16
904587148a new relationship between britain and its american colonies was initiated in 1763 when ________george grenville assumed charge of colonial policy17
904587149Sugar Act first law intened to _______________raise revenues in the colonies18
904587150Stamp Act generated the most ___________protest in the colonies19
904587151Declaratory Act asserted _________-Parliaments absolute power over the colonies20
904587152the first law ever passed by Parliament for raising tax revenues in the colonies for the crown wasSugar Act21
904587153Why did the british parliament pass the stamp actto raise money to support new military forced needed for colonial defense22
904587154Passage of the sugar Act and the Stamp Act convinved many colonist that ____________the british were trying to take away their historic liberty23
904587155Unlike the stamp act the sugar act and townshend act were bothindirect taxes on trade goods arriving in American ports24
904587156put the following in chronological order: stamp act, sugar act, declaratory act, repeal of the stamp act1. Sugar act 2. Stamp Act 3. repeal of the stamp act 4. declaratory act25
904587157Colonist objected to the stamp act beacauseparliament passed the tax not the colonist26
904587158when the colonist shouted NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION they were rejecting whatparliaments power to levy revenue raising taxes on the colones27
904587159actions taken by the colonist that helped them unite includedthe stamp act congress, nonimportation agreements, spinning bees, the making and wearing of homemade woolen goods.28
904587160Virtual representation meantevery member of Parliament represented all british subjects without an actual colonial member being present29
904587161colonial protest against the stamp act took the form ofconvening a colonial congress (first continental congress)_ to request repeal of the act, a colonial boycott against britsh goods, violence in several colonial towns, wearing homemade woolen clothes30
904587162as a result of american opposition to the townshend Actsbritish officals sent regiments of troops to boston to restore law and order31
904587163the colonists took the townshend acts less seriously than the stamp act becauseit was light and indiect32
904587164put the following in chronological order: intolerable acts, boston massacre, townshend acts, tea acttownshend acts, boston massacre, tea act, intolerable acts33
904587165samual adamsa paphleteer who first organized committees to exchange ideas an dinformation on resisting british policy34
904587166john adamsa massachusetts politician who opposed the moderates solution to the imperial crisis at the first continental congress. the moderates wanted a weakened control of colonial ruel35
904587167crispus attacksa casualty of the boston massacre36
904587168Tax on teas was not repealed when the townshend acts were becauseit kept alive the principle of parliamentary taxation37
904587169the local committees of correspondence organized by ___________ kept opposition to british alive, through ______________Samual Adams: exchange of propaganda38
904587170put the following in chronological order: clash at lexingon and concord, boston tea party, meeting of the first continental congress, quebec actboston tea party, quebec act, meeting of the first continental congress, clash at lecington and concord39
904587171When parliament passed the tea act colonist suspected that it was ____________a trick to get them to violate their principle of no taxatio without representation40
904587172the boston tea party of 1773 was not the only such protest to occur, the colonist alsoburned tea ships in maryland41
904587173the most drastic measure of the intolerable acts wasthe boston port act which closed the port of boston42
904587174the quebec act denied quebeca representative assemblly and trail by jury43
904587175the quebec act was especially unpopular in the american colonies because it did all of the followingturn an extensive amount of territory over to catholic control (including the Ohio River Valley), affect many colonies, just not massachusetts, alarm land speculators who saw a huge area snatched from their grasp, it set a dangerous precedent against jury trials44
904587176the first continental congress was called to considerways of redressing colonial grievances45
904587177the first continental congress called fora boycott of british goods46
904587178as a result of parliaments rejection of the pertitions of the continental congressfighting and bloodshed took place and war began47
904587179as the war for independence began britain had the advantage of overwhelmingnational wealth and navel power48
904587180all of the following were weaknesses of the british military during the war for independencesecond rate officers, the need to keep many soldiers in europe in case of trouble, the long supply lines, brutal treatment of their soldiers49
904587181Many whigs in britain hoped for an american victory in the war for independence beacusethey feared that if George III triumphed his rule at home might become tyrannical50
904587182as the war for independence began the colonies had the advantage ofmany outstanding civil and miliary leaders51
904587183the colonist faced all of the following weaknesses in the war for independence:poor organization, sectional jealousy which constantly interfered with the appointment of military leaders, great difficulties in raising in money to support the army, a weak central authority running the war effort52
904587184by the end of the war for independencea few thousand american regular troops were finally whopped into shape53
904587185Regarding American independence only a select minoritysupported indepenedce with selfless devotion54

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