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Questão 1

Questão
The major participants in the Seven Years' War in North America, were
Responda
  • the French, the English, and the Iroquois
  • the colonists, the English, and the Spanish
  • the French, the Spanish, and the English
  • the English, the Iroquois, and the Spanish

Questão 2

Questão
During the eighteenth century, in North America, the French differed from the English in Indian relations, in that the French
Responda
  • were more tolerant of other cultures
  • offered the Indians more and better trade good
  • largely isolated themselves from Indian tribes
  • made little effort to convert Indians to Christianity
  • forced Indians to adjust to European ways

Questão 3

Questão
During the eighteenth century in North America, the most powerful native group were the
Responda
  • Iroquois
  • Cherokee
  • Seminole
  • Chickasaw
  • Sioux

Questão 4

Questão
What future American Revolutionary figure surrendered to French forces in 1754 at Fort Necessity in the Ohio Valley?
Responda
  • George Washington
  • Patrick Henry
  • James Madison
  • Benedict Arnold
  • John Adams

Questão 5

Questão
The French and Indian war was fought in
Responda
  • All these answers are correct
  • India
  • the West Indies
  • the North American interior
  • Europe

Questão 6

Questão
When he became British Prime Minister, George Grenville
Responda
  • believed the American colonists should help pay for the administration of the empire
  • believed the colonies could not weather the cost of recent war
  • criticized William Pitt for being too harsh in dealing with the American colonies
  • began a cost-cutting effort by reducing the number of British officials in America
  • initially sought to further decentralize government authority in the American colonies

Questão 7

Questão
The Proclamation of 1763
Responda
  • was supported by many Indian tribes
  • disrupted England's western trade in the colonies
  • was generally effective
  • encouraged settlement of the western edge of the colonies
  • led to renewed conflict with the remaining French colonists in the West

Questão 8

Questão
The Stamp Act of 1765
Responda
  • helped unite the colonies in opposition to the English government
  • did not generate a lot of revenue for the British
  • was consistent with traditional parliamentary efforts to regulate commerce
  • required the consent of the colonial assemblies before going into effect
  • really affected only a few New England merchants

Questão 9

Questão
The Paxton Boys and the Regulators both
Responda
  • demanded tax relief
  • feared violence from western farmers
  • demanded independence from England
  • sought to increase the authority of local colonial governments
  • demanded the redistribution of the land making up the former French colonies

Questão 10

Questão
In 1766, in response to colonial protests against the Stamp Act, the British government
Responda
  • rescinded the Stamp Act
  • closed the port of Boston
  • attempted to arrest the authors of the "Virginia Resolves"
  • created the Currency Act
  • sent additional troops to the colonies

Questão 11

Questão
The Declaratory Act of 1766
Responda
  • was a sweeping assertion of Parliament's authority over the colonies
  • caused renewed protests throughout the colonies
  • threatened the colonies with military action should future protests develop
  • was an attempt by outgoing minister George Grenville to save face
  • all these answers are correct

Questão 12

Questão
Colonial protests against the Townsend duties resulted in
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  • many colonists joining in non-importation agreements
  • the Boston Massacre
  • Parliament passing a second Stamp Act
  • an increase in smuggling in port cities such as Boston
  • the Boston Tea Party

Questão 13

Questão
Taverns were important in the growth of revolutionary sentiment because
Responda
  • they became central meeting places to discuss ideas about resistance
  • they were the only public places where one could legally speak without fear of arrest
  • it was one of the few places where men and women gathered together to speak
  • colonists increasingly resented the heavy British duties on alcohol
  • all these answers are correct

Questão 14

Questão
In 1774, the First Continental Congress
Responda
  • called for the repeal of all oppressive legislation passed since 1763
  • accepted a plan for a colonial union under British authority
  • proposed that the colonies tax themselves at Parliament's demand
  • agreed to end colonial boycotts of British trade
  • issued an order for the arrest of all colonists loyal to the king

Questão 15

Questão
During the events at Lexington and Concord,
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  • the British were harassed by the gunfire of American farmers
  • colonists tried to surprize the British by seizing a British arsenal
  • the Americans lost many more men than the British
  • George washington gained his first victory in the conflict with England
  • Massachusetts was further alienated from the more moderate colonies

Questão 16

Questão
The Currency Act of 1764 gave the colonial legislatures the power to print paper money.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 17

Questão
The Conciliatory Propositions (1775) proposed that the colonists not be taxed by Parliament, but rather should tax themselves at Parliament's demand.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 18

Questão
During the 50 years after the Glorious Revolution, the British policy of neglect of the colonial economy
Responda
  • was sustained by some parliamentary leaders who believed relaxation of restrictions would spur commerce
  • dissipated as the kings reasserted their power in the British government
  • was lessened by the capabilities of the royal officials in America
  • was lessened as officials in London learned more about the colonial economies
  • caused the colonists to feel more American than English

Questão 19

Questão
By the 1750s, colonial legislatures had come to see themselves as
Responda
  • little parliaments
  • agents of the royal governor
  • powerless
  • agents for democratic reform
  • agents for the king

Questão 20

Questão
The British victory in the Great War for Empire
Responda
  • gave England control of most pf the settled regions of North America
  • expelled France and Prussia from North America
  • resulted in the defeat of all North American Indian tribe
  • resulted in less contact between Britain and America
  • resulted in the colonists' control of the Missouri Rive

Questão 21

Questão
For which group was the result of the Great War for Empire?
Responda
  • the Iroquois Confederacy
  • English frontiersmen and traders
  • colonial merchants
  • the Royal Africa Company
  • the Hudson Bay Company

Questão 22

Questão
In an effort to keep peace between frontiersmen and Indians and provide for a more orderly settlement of the West, the British government
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  • forbade settlers from crossing the mountains that divided the Atlantic coast from the interior
  • granted the Indian confederations sovereign recognition
  • gave Indian tribes and confederations colonial status
  • allowed interior settlement only if settlers bought land from the tribes
  • put forts in the Ohio Valley to protect settlers there

Questão 23

Questão
Colonists argued that the Stamp Act was not proper because
Responda
  • colonies could be taxed only by their provincial assemblies
  • it affected only a few people, so the burden was not shared
  • the money raised would not be spent in the colonies
  • the tax was too high
  • it violated freedom of the press

Questão 24

Questão
By the 1750s, most Colonists in America felt very little loyalty to Britain.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 25

Questão
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.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 26

Questão
The Seven Years' War, the French and Indian War, and the Great War for Empire are all the same war.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 27

Questão
England was fortunate that King George III was young, bright, surprisingly mature for his age.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 28

Questão
The English colonists quickly began to populate the Ohio Valley after the French and Indian war.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 29

Questão
What was the most immediately significant problem confronting the British after the Seven Years' War?
Responda
  • managing the war debts
  • increased opposition by merchants and traders to tax increases
  • dealing with the oppositional American colonists
  • the problems of imperial expansion

Questão 30

Questão
"No taxation without representation" centered around which of the following concepts?
Responda
  • the right of the people to be taxed only with their own consent
  • the right of people to fully representative governments
  • the right of the people to tax themselves without British interference
  • the right of Parliament appoint representatives to the colonies

Questão 31

Questão
What type of representation theory did the British support in 1760?
Responda
  • "virtual" representation
  • "partial" representation
  • "associate" representation
  • "actual" representation

Questão 32

Questão
During the course of colonial history, colonial legislatures grew increasingly accustomed to operating on orders from Parliament.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 33

Questão
The Daughters of Liberty
Responda
  • Led the boycott of British goods to protest taxes
  • burned the governor's house to protest the plight of poor farmers
  • wrote the Declaration of Independence
  • Staged the Boston Tea Party
  • Sewed the first American flag

Questão 34

Questão
What did the colonists store at Concord that made it a British target at the beginning of the Revolutionary War?
Responda
  • Gunpowder
  • Contraband tea
  • The Declaration of Independence
  • Printing presses
  • Gold

Questão 35

Questão
The Mutiny Act required that
Responda
  • Colonists must provide room and board for British troops
  • All printed materials must have an official stamp
  • High taxes must be paid on sugar
  • Colonial assemblies stop issuing paper money
  • colonists must not move beyond the Appalachian Mountains

Questão 36

Questão
Which of the following was the result of the French and Indian War?
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  • the British tightened control over the colonies
  • the relationship between the colonials and the British became better
  • the relationship bvetween the colonials and the Indians became better
  • France gained control over the Colonies
  • the colonists allied themselves with the Indians

Questão 37

Questão
French settlers from what is now Nova Scotia
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  • were expelled after the British took Accadia from the French and they went to New Orleans, where they were known as Cajuns
  • went to Georgia after the French let them leave
  • Became the most prominent group in the Ohio Valley
  • settled in England after the French and Indian war
  • were absorbed by local Indian tribes after the French and Indian war

Questão 38

Questão
The Peace of Paris ended which war?
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  • French and Indian War
  • Queen Anne's War
  • King Phillip's War
  • The Second Colonial War
  • The First Colonial War

Questão 39

Questão
The legislation that commanded the colonist to stop issuing their own paper money was the
Responda
  • Currency Act of 1764
  • Stamp Act of 1765
  • Townsend Duties
  • Tea Act of 1773
  • Sugar Act of 1764

Questão 40

Questão
What did Parliament do that caused many colonists in America to resent British rule?
Responda
  • England's attempt to raise money from the Colonies without the consent of colonial assemblies
  • redaw the boundaries of the American colonies
  • give large tracts of land to Indian tribes
  • share rule of the American colonies with France
  • bring King George over to administer the American colonies directly

Questão 41

Questão
Insurgent farmers demanding their own land led to the formation of the colony of
Responda
  • Vermont
  • Maryland
  • Maine
  • Rhode Island
  • New Jersey

Questão 42

Questão
The non-importation agreement between colonists in 1768 was
Responda
  • a public promise to stop buying British goods, including tea, cloth, and other household items
  • only involved male colonists
  • to protest the Intolerable Acts
  • was propsed by Parliament to solve problems with the American colonists
  • in protest of the free trade policies of Britain

Questão 43

Questão
The Tea Act of 1773
Responda
  • made the British East India Company exempt from taxes
  • put additional taxes on British East India Company tea
  • called for a boycott on British tea in the colonies
  • had nothing to do with the Boston Massacre or the Boston Tea Party
  • made tea the only legal drink in colonial taverns

Questão 44

Questão
The First Continental Congress of 1774 was initially called for at a tavern in WIlliamsburg, Virginia.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 45

Questão
The First Continental Congress met in
Responda
  • Philadelphia
  • New York City
  • Charleston
  • Boston
  • Atlanta

Questão 46

Questão
The Coersive Acts were known in the Colonies as
Responda
  • the Intolerable Acts
  • Townend Duties
  • Concilliatory Acts
  • The Boston Port Acts
  • The English-American Trial Acts

Questão 47

Questão
The Intolerable Acts were the final straw for the colonists. Which is NOT TRUE about them?
Responda
  • gave Parliament power over all colonial administrations, including the colonial assemblies
  • closed the port of Boston
  • royal officers in American could be tried in England or other colonies
  • limited self government in Massachutetts
  • also called for quartering British trop[s in their homes

Questão 48

Questão
Which is NOT one of the major decisions mad eby the First Continental Congress?
Responda
  • agreed to send Britain the Declaration of Independence
  • rejected a plan for a colonial union under British rule
  • endorsed a moderate list of colonial grievances
  • they agreed to a series of boycotts
  • agreed to begin military preparations and to meet the following spring

Questão 49

Questão
Paul Revere is famous for doing what?
Responda
  • warning the Minutemen that the British troops were coming
  • being the first casualty of the Revolutionary War
  • leading a large group of Minutemen into battle against British troops
  • he was the leader of the First Continental Congress
  • he became the most famous American General

Questão 50

Questão
Why are the skirmishes at Lexington and Concord called "the shots heard round the world"?
Responda
  • other countries with monarchies and colonies took notice of the actions of the American rebels because they feared the same thing happening to them
  • the shots were fired by a new type of gun with rifling for better accuracy
  • the shots were actually fired from a very large cannon which made an extremely loud noise
  • the colonists thought the Indians would now be aware of the firepower of the British troops
  • troops from countries all over the world participated in the battles

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