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| 900210890 | Change 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 empire | 1 | |
| 900210891 | When it came to the Revolution it could be said that the Americna colonist were | reluctant revolutionaries | 2 | |
| 900210892 | In a broad sense, America was a revolutionary force since | the day of its discovery by the Europeans. | 3 | |
| 900210893 | The American colonial exponents of republicanism argued that a just society depends on | the willingness of all citizens to subordinate their private interest to the common good | 4 | |
| 900210894 | Republican belief held that the stability of society and the authority of the government depended on | the virtue of its citizenry | 5 | |
| 900210895 | The readical whigs feared | the arbitrary power of the monarchy | 6 | |
| 900210896 | Mercantilist believed that a countrys economic wealth could be measured by the amount of | gold and silver in its treasury | 7 | |
| 900210897 | the founding of the Americna colonies by the British was undertaken in | a haphazard manner | 8 | |
| 900210898 | Under 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 | |
| 904587141 | What were the first Navigation Laws designed to eliminate? | Dutch shoppers from the American carrying trade | 10 | |
| 904587142 | The British Parliament enacted currency legislation that was intended primarily to benefit | British Merchants | 11 | |
| 904587143 | The British Crowns royal veto of colonial legislation was used sparingly by | The British Parliament | 12 | |
| 904587144 | Under the mercantilist systme the british governmetn reserved the right to do all of the following regarding the American colonies | restrict 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 | |
| 904587145 | before 1763, the navigation laws were ________ enforced in the American colonies | loosely | 14 | |
| 904587146 | despite the benefits of the mercantile system, the american colonists disliked it because | it kept them in a state of perpetual exonomic adolescence | 15 | |
| 904587147 | IN some way the Navigation laws were a burden to certain colonist because | they stifled economic initiative (the ability to be creative economically) | 16 | |
| 904587148 | a new relationship between britain and its american colonies was initiated in 1763 when ________ | george grenville assumed charge of colonial policy | 17 | |
| 904587149 | Sugar Act first law intened to _______________ | raise revenues in the colonies | 18 | |
| 904587150 | Stamp Act generated the most ___________ | protest in the colonies | 19 | |
| 904587151 | Declaratory Act asserted _________- | Parliaments absolute power over the colonies | 20 | |
| 904587152 | the first law ever passed by Parliament for raising tax revenues in the colonies for the crown was | Sugar Act | 21 | |
| 904587153 | Why did the british parliament pass the stamp act | to raise money to support new military forced needed for colonial defense | 22 | |
| 904587154 | Passage of the sugar Act and the Stamp Act convinved many colonist that ____________ | the british were trying to take away their historic liberty | 23 | |
| 904587155 | Unlike the stamp act the sugar act and townshend act were both | indirect taxes on trade goods arriving in American ports | 24 | |
| 904587156 | put the following in chronological order: stamp act, sugar act, declaratory act, repeal of the stamp act | 1. Sugar act 2. Stamp Act 3. repeal of the stamp act 4. declaratory act | 25 | |
| 904587157 | Colonist objected to the stamp act beacause | parliament passed the tax not the colonist | 26 | |
| 904587158 | when the colonist shouted NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION they were rejecting what | parliaments power to levy revenue raising taxes on the colones | 27 | |
| 904587159 | actions taken by the colonist that helped them unite included | the stamp act congress, nonimportation agreements, spinning bees, the making and wearing of homemade woolen goods. | 28 | |
| 904587160 | Virtual representation meant | every member of Parliament represented all british subjects without an actual colonial member being present | 29 | |
| 904587161 | colonial protest against the stamp act took the form of | convening 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 clothes | 30 | |
| 904587162 | as a result of american opposition to the townshend Acts | british officals sent regiments of troops to boston to restore law and order | 31 | |
| 904587163 | the colonists took the townshend acts less seriously than the stamp act because | it was light and indiect | 32 | |
| 904587164 | put the following in chronological order: intolerable acts, boston massacre, townshend acts, tea act | townshend acts, boston massacre, tea act, intolerable acts | 33 | |
| 904587165 | samual adams | a paphleteer who first organized committees to exchange ideas an dinformation on resisting british policy | 34 | |
| 904587166 | john adams | a massachusetts politician who opposed the moderates solution to the imperial crisis at the first continental congress. the moderates wanted a weakened control of colonial ruel | 35 | |
| 904587167 | crispus attacks | a casualty of the boston massacre | 36 | |
| 904587168 | Tax on teas was not repealed when the townshend acts were because | it kept alive the principle of parliamentary taxation | 37 | |
| 904587169 | the local committees of correspondence organized by ___________ kept opposition to british alive, through ______________ | Samual Adams: exchange of propaganda | 38 | |
| 904587170 | put the following in chronological order: clash at lexingon and concord, boston tea party, meeting of the first continental congress, quebec act | boston tea party, quebec act, meeting of the first continental congress, clash at lecington and concord | 39 | |
| 904587171 | When parliament passed the tea act colonist suspected that it was ____________ | a trick to get them to violate their principle of no taxatio without representation | 40 | |
| 904587172 | the boston tea party of 1773 was not the only such protest to occur, the colonist also | burned tea ships in maryland | 41 | |
| 904587173 | the most drastic measure of the intolerable acts was | the boston port act which closed the port of boston | 42 | |
| 904587174 | the quebec act denied quebec | a representative assemblly and trail by jury | 43 | |
| 904587175 | the quebec act was especially unpopular in the american colonies because it did all of the following | turn 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 trials | 44 | |
| 904587176 | the first continental congress was called to consider | ways of redressing colonial grievances | 45 | |
| 904587177 | the first continental congress called for | a boycott of british goods | 46 | |
| 904587178 | as a result of parliaments rejection of the pertitions of the continental congress | fighting and bloodshed took place and war began | 47 | |
| 904587179 | as the war for independence began britain had the advantage of overwhelming | national wealth and navel power | 48 | |
| 904587180 | all of the following were weaknesses of the british military during the war for independence | second rate officers, the need to keep many soldiers in europe in case of trouble, the long supply lines, brutal treatment of their soldiers | 49 | |
| 904587181 | Many whigs in britain hoped for an american victory in the war for independence beacuse | they feared that if George III triumphed his rule at home might become tyrannical | 50 | |
| 904587182 | as the war for independence began the colonies had the advantage of | many outstanding civil and miliary leaders | 51 | |
| 904587183 | the 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 effort | 52 | |
| 904587184 | by the end of the war for independence | a few thousand american regular troops were finally whopped into shape | 53 | |
| 904587185 | Regarding American independence only a select minority | supported indepenedce with selfless devotion | 54 |
