APUSH 7-8 MC Test Flashcards
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| 1734256563 | Change in colonial policy by the British government that helped precipitate the American Revolution involved | : compelling the American colonists to shoulder some of the financial costs of the empire. | 0 | |
| 1734256564 | In a broad sense, America was | : revolutionary force from the day of its discovery by Europeans. | 1 | |
| 1734256565 | The American colonial exponents of republicanism argued that a just society depends on: | a willingness to subordinate private interests to the common good. | 2 | |
| 1734256566 | Republicans looked to the models of the ____ for examples of a just society.: . | Greeks and Romans | 3 | |
| 1734256567 | The radical whigs feared: | the arbitrary power of the monarchy. | 4 | |
| 1734256568 | Identify the statement that is false.: | The Americans were dependent on the British officials in London to run their affairs. | 5 | |
| 1734256569 | Not one of the original thirteen colonies except ____ was formally planted by the British government. | Georgia | 6 | |
| 1734256570 | The founding of the American colonies by the British was | undertaken in a haphazard manner. | 7 | |
| 1734256571 | Mercantilists believed that: | a country's economic wealth could be measured by the amount of gold and silver in its treasury. | 8 | |
| 1734256572 | The first Navigation Laws were designed to: | eliminate Dutch shippers from the American carrying trade. | 9 | |
| 1734256573 | The British Parliament enacted currency legislation that was intended primarily to benefit: | British merchants. | 10 | |
| 1734256574 | The British Crown's royal veto of colonial legislation: | was used sparingly by the British Parliament. | 11 | |
| 1734256575 | Under the mercantilist system, the British government reserved the right to do all of the following regarding the American colonies except: | prevent the colonies from developing militias. | 12 | |
| 1734256576 | Before 1763, the Navigation Laws | : were only loosely enforced in the American colonies. | 13 | |
| 1734256577 | Despite the benefits of the mercantile system, the American colonists disliked it because it: | made them feel used and kept them in a state of perpetual economic adolescence. | 14 | |
| 1734256578 | In some ways, the Navigation Laws and mercantilist system were a burden to certain colonists because | : they stifled economic initiative. | 15 | |
| 1734256579 | Sugar Act Stamp Act Declaratory Act | Sugar Act - first British law intended to raise revenues in the colonies Stamp Act - generated the most protest in the colonies. Declaratory Act - asserted Parliament's absolute power over the colonies | 16 | |
| 1734256580 | The first law ever passed by Parliament for raising tax revenues in the colonies for the crown was the: | Sugar Act. | 17 | |
| 1734256581 | The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to: | raise money to support new military forces needed for colonial defense. | 18 | |
| 1734256582 | Passage of the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act: | convinced many colonists that the British were trying to take away their historic liberty. | 19 | |
| 1734256583 | Unlike the ____ Act, the ____ Act and the ____ Act were both indirect taxes on trade goods arriving in American ports.: | Stamp, Sugar, Townshend | 20 | |
| 1734256584 | The Quartering Act required that colonists:. | provide housing and food for British troops. | 21 | |
| 1734256585 | Women supported protests against the Stamp Act in all of the following ways except: | cooking lamb chops for their families. | 22 | |
| 1734256586 | Virtual representation meant that: . | every member of Parliament represented all British subjects everywhere | 23 | |
| 1734256587 | Colonists responded to the hated Stamp Act in all of the following ways except | : having colonial legislatures issue a court mandate forbidding the enforcement of the act. | 24 | |
| 1734256588 | The colonists took the Townshend Acts less seriously than the Stamp Act because | : they were light and indirect. | 25 | |
| 1734256589 | As a result of American opposition to the Townshend Acts: | British officials sent regiments of troops to Boston to restore law and order. | 26 | |
| 1734256590 | Samuel Adams John Adams Crispus Attucks | Samuel Adams - a pamphleteer who first organized committees to exchange ideas and information on resisting British policy John Adams - a Massachusetts politician who opposed the moderates' solution to the imperial crisis at the First Continental Congress Crispus Attucks - a casualty of the Boston Massacre | 27 | |
| 1734256591 | 39. The tax on tea was retained when the Townshend Acts were repealed because: | it kept alive the principle of parliamentary taxation. | 28 | |
| 1734256592 | 40. The local committees of correspondence organized by Samuel Adams: | kept opposition to the British alive, through exchange letters. | 29 | |
| 1734256593 | 41. Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) clash at Lexington and Concord, (B) meeting of the First Continental Congress, (C) Quebec Act, and (D) Boston Tea Party. | DCBA | 30 | |
| 1734256594 | 42. Which of the following statements is false?: | By 1773, it was clear that a colonial rebellion was inevitable. | 31 | |
| 1734256595 | 43. When Parliament passed the Tea Act, colonists: | suspected that it was a trick to get them to violate their principle of "No taxation without representation." | 32 | |
| 1734256596 | 44. The Boston Tea Party of 1773 was: | not the only such protest to occur. | 33 | |
| 1734256597 | 45. The Quebec Act: | suspended representative assemblies and trials by jury. | 34 | |
| 1734256598 | 46. The most memorable of the responses to the Intolerable Acts was: | the summoning of the First Continental Congress in 1774. | 35 | |
| 1734256599 | 47. The First Continental Congress was called in order to: | consider ways of redressing colonial grievances against Britain. | 36 | |
| 1734256600 | 48. The First Continental Congress: | called for a complete boycott of British goods. | 37 | |
| 1734256601 | 49. As a result of Parliament's rejection of the petitions of the Continental Congress: | fighting and bloodshed took place, and war began. | 38 | |
| 1734256602 | 50. As the War for Independence began, Britain had the advantage of: | overwhelming national wealth and naval power. | 39 | |
| 1734256603 | 51. All of the following were weaknesses of the British military during the War for Independence except: | soldiers who were incapable of fighting effectively. | 40 | |
| 1734256604 | 52. Many Whigs in Britain hoped for an American victory in the War for Independence because they: | feared that if George III triumphed, his rule at home might become tyrannical. | 41 | |
| 1734256605 | 53. The colonists faced all of the following weaknesses in the War for Independence except: . | the use of numerous European officers. | 42 | |
| 1734256606 | 54. By the end of the War for Independence: | a few thousand American regular troops were finally whipped into shape. | 43 | |
| 1734256607 | 55. Which of the following is not a true statement about women's roles during the Revolution?: | Many women urged husbands and sons to stay home and safeguard their families and property. | 44 | |
| 1734256608 | 56. African Americans during the Revolutionary War: | fought for both the Americans and the British. | 45 | |
| 1734256609 | 57. Regarding American independence: . | only a select minority supported independence with selfless devotion | 46 | |
| 1734256610 | 58. When the Second Continental Congress met in 1775: | there was no well-defined sentiment for independence. | 47 | |
| 1734256611 | 59. Perhaps the most important single action of the Second Continental Congress was to: | select George Washington to head the army. | 48 | |
| 1734256612 | 60. As commander of America's Revolutionary army, George Washington exhibited all of the following except: | military genius. | 49 | |
| 1734256613 | 61. All of the following statements are true regarding Washington's selection to head up the Continental army except: c | congress strongly perceived his qualities of leadership. | 50 | |
| 1734256614 | 62. The Revolutionary War began with fighting in ____; then in 1777-1778, fighting was concentrated in ____; and the fighting concluded in ____.:. | New England, the middle colonies, the South | 51 | |
| 1734256615 | 63. In 1775, once fighting between the colonies and Great Britain began: | the colonists affirmed their loyalty to the King. | 52 | |
| 1734256616 | 64. In May 1775, a tiny American force under Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured the British garrisons at Ft. Ticonderoga and Crown Point in upper New York. What did the Americans secure as a result of this victory?: | A priceless store of gunpowder and artillery for the siege of Boston was secured. | 53 | |
| 1734256617 | 65. King George III officially declared the colonies in rebellion just after: | the Battle of Bunker Hill. | 54 | |
| 1734256618 | 66. The Olive Branch Petition: | professed American loyalty to the crown. | 55 | |
| 1734256619 | 67. Colonists considered the British use of European mercenaries - Hessians - as paid soldiers: | with complete shock that they would enlist outsiders. | 56 | |
| 1734256620 | 68. In March 1776, this event is still celebrated today and it is known as Evacuation Day, what happened on this day?: | British evacuation of Boston | 57 | |
| 1734256621 | 69. The colonists delayed declaring their independence until July 4, 1776, for all of the following reasons except: | lack of military victories. | 58 | |
| 1734256622 | 70. Jefferson was selected to draft the Declaration of Independence because: | he was already recognized as a brilliant writer. | 59 | |
| 1734256623 | 71. In a republic, power: | comes from the people themselves. | 60 | |
| 1734256624 | 72. Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense: . | called for American independence and the creation of a democratic republic. | 61 | |
| 1734256625 | 73. The feasibility of representative government had been demonstrated in the: | committees of correspondence. | 62 | |
| 1734256626 | 74. Examples of colonial experience with self-governance, which prepared Americans for a republic, included all of the following except: | militia service. | 63 | |
| 1734256627 | 75. Most Americans considered which of the following to be fundamental for any successful republican government?: | Civic virtue | 64 | |
| 1734256628 | 76. Which individual privately advocated equality for women?: | Abigail Adams | 65 | |
| 1734256629 | 77. The Declaration of Independence did all of the following except: | offer the British one last chance at reconciliation. | 66 | |
| 1734256630 | 78. Patriots responded to Paine's vision of an ultra democratic republic in all of the following ways except: | some wanted to see only the lower orders of farmers and workers as the base of political power | 67 | |
| 1734256631 | 79. Like many revolutions, the American Revolution was: | a minority movement. | 68 | |
| 1734256632 | 80. When it came to supporting the Revolution, most colonists were: | neutral or apathetic. | 69 | |
| 1734256633 | 81. The Patriot militia played a crucial role in the Revolution in all of the following ways except: | raising funds to support the war effort. | 70 | |
| 1734256634 | 82. The Americans who continued to support the crown after independence had been declared were more likely to be all of the following except | from New England. | 71 | |
| 1734256635 | 83. Many Americans remained loyalists during the Revolution for all of the following reasons except: | fear of retribution. | 72 | |
| 1734256636 | 84. All of the following fates befell Loyalists after the Revolutionary War except they: | were given aristocratic status in Canada. | 73 | |
| 1734256637 | 85. Loyalists were least numerous in: | New England. | 74 | |
| 1734256638 | 86. Emanuel Leutze's 1851 painting Washington Crossing the Delaware celebrates what event? | : Surprise attack on the Hessians in New Jersey | 75 | |
| 1734256639 | 87. After defeat at the Battle of Long Island, Washington's forces escaped to: | Manhattan Island. | 76 | |
| 1734256640 | 88. ____ and ____ revealed "Old Fox" Washington at his military best.: | Trenton, Princeton | 77 | |
| 1734256641 | William Howe John Burgoyne Charles Cornwallis Nathanael Greene | William Howe - Long Island John Burgoyne - Saratoga Charles Cornwallis - Yorktown Nathanael Greene - | 78 | |
| 1734256642 | 90. Arrange these battles in chronological order: (A) Trenton, (B) Saratoga, (C) Long Island, and (D) Charleston. | CABD | 79 | |
| 1734256643 | 91. The basic principles of the Model Treaty and the new philosophy behind American international affairs contained all of the following except | : no economic connection. | 80 | |
| 1734256644 | 92. The Battle of Saratoga was a key victory for the Americans because it: | brought the colonists much-needed aid and a formal alliance with France. | 81 | |
| 1734256645 | 93. The basic principles in the Model Treaty: | were self-denying restrictions to the Americans. | 82 | |
| 1734256646 | 94. America's first entangling alliance was with: | France. | 83 | |
| 1734256647 | 95. Who was the American diplomat that negotiated the Model Treaty with France?: | Benjamin Franklin | 84 | |
| 1734256648 | 96. The Armed Neutrality League was started by | : Catherine the Great of Russia. | 85 | |
| 1734256649 | 97. When the alliance with France was formalized, the Americans were able to gain all of the following except | : a negotiated peace treaty with the British. | 86 | |
| 1734256650 | 98. The commander of French troops in America was: | Rochambeau. | 87 | |
| 1734256651 | 99. Shortly after French troops arrived in America, the resulting improvement in morale staggered when: | General Benedict Arnold turned traitor. | 88 | |
| 1734256652 | 100. The colonists suffered their heaviest losses of the Revolutionary War at the Battle of: | Charleston. | 89 | |
| 1734256653 | George Rogers Clark Nathanael Greene John Paul Jones | George Rogers Clark - commanded Patriot troops in the West Nathanael Greene -commanded Patriot troops in the South John Paul Jones -commanded Patriot naval forces | 90 | |
| 1734256654 | 102. Some Indian nations joined the British during the Revolutionary War because: | 110. Regarding the provisions of the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which formally ended the Revolution: America broke the assurances regarding treatment of the Loyalists. | 91 | |
| 1734256655 | 103. The "Fighting Quaker" who cleared most of Georgia and South Carolina was: | Nathanael Greene. | 92 | |
| 1734256656 | 104. The Indian chief who fought for the British in New York and Pennsylvania was: | Joseph Brant. | 93 | |
| 1734256657 | 105. The Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the first treaty between the United States and an Indian nation, resulted in: | the ceding of most of the Iroquois' land. | 94 | |
| 1734256658 | 106. During the Revolution, the frontier saw much fighting, which: | failed to stem the tide of westward-moving pioneers. | 95 | |
| 1734256659 | 107. The most important contribution of the seagoing privateers during the Revolutionary War was that they: | captured hundreds of British merchant ships. | 96 | |
| 1734256660 | 108. American diplomats to the peace negotiations in Paris in 1782-1783 were instructed by the Second Continental Congress to: | get the colonies out of their obligations under the Franco-American alliances. | 97 | |
| 1734256661 | 109. Britain gave America generous terms in the Treaty of Paris because British leaders: | were trying to persuade America to abandon its alliance with France. | 98 | |
| 1734256662 | 110. Regarding the provisions of the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which formally ended the Revolution: | America broke the assurances regarding treatment of the Loyalists. | 99 |