TIME 3 (1754-1800)

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WORKSHEET- Chapter #5, Severing the Bonds of Empire ( 1754-1774)

  1. Which of the following was a consequence of the Seven Year’s War?
  2. The war left many colonists with feelings of animosity toward the British
  3. The war heightened colonists’ fears of being drawn into another European based conflict
  4. The war left colonists with a deep sense of insecurity
  5. The victorious alliance between the colonists and the British eliminated tensions between them
  1. In response to the outcome of the Seven Year’s War, Chief Pontiac:
  2. Advised the tribes of the Northwest to negotiate separate trade agreements with the French
  3. Allied with Spain in an attempt to counter British power
  4. Instructed the Ottawas to accept British superiority in the Northwest
  5. Forged an anti-British alliance among Indian tribes in the Northwest
  1. The Proclamation Line of 1763 was intended to:
  2. Regulate colonial settlement of the western territories
  3. Regulate colonial trade with the Indians
  4. Prevent clashes between colonists and Indians
  5. Prevent all future colonial settlement west of the Appalachians
  1. George Grenville’s colonial policies were designed to:
  2. Solve Great Britain’s financial crisis by raising revenue in the colonies
  3. Encourage the development of colonial manufacturing
  4. Gradually reduce the powers of the colonial assemblies by first attacking their power to tax
  5. Implement mercantilist policy by regulating colonial trade and commerce
  1. In contrast to the British concept of representative government, Americans believed
  2. Each elected representative in a colonial assembly represented all people in the colony
  3. In the one man, one vote concept
  4. An assembly could not be considered representative unless all people twenty-one years of age or over had the right to vote
  5. A member of the lower house of a colonial assembly represented the voters who elected him
  1. Because of the arguments of the Real Whigs, the colonists:
  2. Were convinced that the Sugar Act was simply designed to regulate trade
  3. Perceived British actions, beginning with those of Grenville, as having an oppressive purpose
  4. Established the Continental Congress as an inter-colonial legislative body
  5. Realized that they had the right to present protest petitions to Parliament
  1. Which of the following was part of Otis’s argument in The Rights of the Colonies Asserted and Proved?
  2. Parliament has no legislative power over the colonies
  3. The colonists may refuse to obey unconstitutional laws
  4. A colonial assembly has power equal to that of Parliament
  5. Parliament cannot tax the colonies without their consent
  1. Which of these was unacceptable to the VA House of Burgesses in its adoption of the Stamp Act Resolve?
  2. The American colonists are British subjects
  3. The House of Burgesses has “the only” right to tax Virginians
  4. Colonists enjoy the right of consent to taxation
  5. The American colonists enjoy all of the rights of Englishmen
  1. The Stamp Act ultimately could not be enforced because:
  2. Stamp distributors refused to perform their duties because of the widespread nature of anti-Stamp Act demonstrations
  3. The protests of the Stamp Act Congress had created severe divisions within Parliament
  4. Parliament realized that the tax was excessive
  5. The tax fell heaviest on those least able to pay
  1. The Sons of Liberty was created to:
  2. Organize merchant resistance against British acts
  3. Provide a means by which protest leaders could control and channel the resistance movement
  4. Provide a means of distributing pamphlets throughout the colonies
  5. Organize liberty parades in major cities against the Stamp Act
  1. Which of the following ideas was presented by John Dickinson and was unacceptable to Parliament?
  2. The colonies have the right to virtual representation in Parliament
  3. English citizens have the right of consent to taxation
  4. The colonists have the power to assess the intent of an act of Parliament
  5. Parliament has the right to regulate trade
  1. Public rituals during the revolutionary era were important because they:
  2. Helped refine the constitutional arguments against Parliament’s actions
  3. Served as entertainment for the community
  4. Put the ideals of the revolution on a religious plane
  5. Helped to involve illiterate people in the resistance movement
  1. During the course of colonial resistance against the Townshend Acts, it became apparent that:
  2. Sentiment in favor of independence was growing
  3. New divisions were emerging among the colonists
  4. A new sense of equality was emerging among the colonists
  5. Americans were beginning to question their loyalty to the king
  1. The response of Massachusetts towns to the Boston pamphlet of 1772 stating the rights and grievances of the colonists reveals that:
  2. Serious divisions existed between urban and rural colonists
  3. Most colonists favored independence in 1772
  4. Most interior Massachusetts towns agree with ideas presented by the Boston patriots
  5. The non-importation movement was in serious trouble
  1. Which of the following is true of the patriots’ perception of the Coercive and Quebec Acts?
  2. The patriots realized that the Boston Tea Party had been a mistake and that these British measures were justified
  3. The patriots saw the Coercive Acts as repressive but cared little about the Quebec Act because it applied to Canada
  4. The patriots saw both measures as part of a deliberate British plot to destroy their rights
  5. Because of divisions within their ranks, the patriots had no unified perception of these acts