APUSH Chapter 7 Study Guide Flashcards

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