1) Why did American colonists resent British taxes?
A) American colonists were unhappy that the high taxes were keeping the nobility in luxury.
B) Unlike American colonists, people who lived in Great Britain did not have to pay any duties .
C) Americans did not elect representatives to Parliament as people who lived in Great Britain did.
D) Great Britain did not offer the American colonists any protection from the French and the Indians.
2) How did the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts encourage American colonists to consider revolution against British rule?
A)by representing an effort in Britain to end the slave trade in the colonies
B)by increasing conflict between the colonists and neighboring Indian tribes.
C)by revealing the British plan to expand the American colonies farther west on the continent
D)by raising taxes in the American colonies without granting the colonies any representation in Parliament
3) The significance of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense was that it
A) suggested economic reforms for the colonies.
B) suggested a plan of reconciliation with Britain.
C) outlined a logical approach to protesting against Parliament.
D) pointed out the absurdity of continued loyalty to King George III.
4) The French-Indian/Seven Years War is often viewed by historians as being a factor in causing the American Revolution. Which of these BEST explains why this might be the case?
A) The Indians believed the colonists would return seized lands to them.
B) The British were able to defeat the French in North America, Asia, and at sea.
C) The high cost of the war meant Parliament had to create new taxes in the American colonies.
D) The French were never truly expelled and played a large role in stirring-up colonial discontent.
5) The Proclamation Line of 1763 runs roughly along the
A) Ohio River.
B) Rocky Mountains.
C) Mississippi River.
D) Appalachian Mountains.
6) Britain responded to the Boston Tea Party by
A) enacting a new set of taxes known as the Townshend Acts.
B) "tarring and feathering" the colonial leaders of Boston.
C) rounding up suspected participants and sending them to Australia.
D) enacting a series of restrictive measures known as the Intolerable Acts.
7) When this was published in early 1776, many American colonists became convinced that they should act to form a new kind of nation independent from the rule of Britain’s "cruel" courts.
A) Common Sense
B) The Wealth of Nations
C) The Declaration of Independence
D) Declaration of the Rights of Man
8) Colonial protests and boycotts against the Stamp Act directly led to
A) the Boston Massacre.
B) the Boston Tea Party.
C) Parliament's decision to repeal the Act.
D) the first shots of the war in Massachusetts.
9) As a result of the Treaty of Paris of 1763,
A) France lost all of its possessions in North America.
B) most of Spain's New World empire was transferred to France.
C) New York was returned to the French in exchange for a British control of India.
D)the British gained Florida and Canada and became the sole power in North America.
10) The Proclamation of 1763 and the Quebec Act of 1774 BOTH helped lay the groundwork for the American Revolution because they each
A) were repealed after numerous citizen protests.
B) levied new taxes on goods imported from Europe.
C) granted greater religious freedoms to Catholics.
D) interfered with colonial claims to western lands.
11) How was the Stamp Act different from earlier taxes imposed on the British colonies?
A) The Stamp Act was only enforced in the southern colonies; northern colonies were not affected by the taxes.
B) Revenue collected under the Stamp Act was given to the colonial governments instead of the British government.
C) The Stamp Act directly affected the colonists; taxes prior to the Stamp Act were indirect taxes, paid only by merchants.
D) Representatives from the colonies were elected to Parliament so that colonial interests could be addressed in the debate over passage of the Stamp Act.
12) After winning the French & Indian War, Great Britain passed the Proclamation of 1763 which made the colonists angry because
A) it did not allow them to settle on land west of the Appalachian mountains.
B) it passed a tax on items such as newspapers, wills and contracts.
C) it forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers.
D) it took away their representation in Parliament.
13)
This cartoon printed in 1765 was most likely a protest against
A) pirates.
B) food safety.
C) British taxes.
D) cruelty of British soldiers.
14) Colonial radicals formed these groups in towns through the colonies to keep the public informed about abuse of colonial rights by the British government. They were
A) Minutemen.
B) The Redcoats.
C) Committees of Correspondence.
D) The Daughters of the American Revolution.
15) These American women were famous for boycotting British goods by making homespun cloth and for finding substitutes for tea and sugar (all heavily taxed by the British.) Who were these women?
A) Women of the Revolution
B) Molly Pitchers
C) National Organization of Women
D) Daughters of Liberty
16) Which goods did Great Britain pass a direct tax on that led to boycotts and a group of delegates to meet to determine how to protest it?
A) tea and syrup
B)weapons and bullets
C) sugar, rum, and molasses
D) newspapers, wills, and licenses
17) "THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value." - Thomas Paine, The Crisis, December 23, 1776
In this section of The Crisis, Paine is suggesting that
A) the war will soon be over.
B) Americans are too weak to fight.
C) times are tough, but victory is possible.
D) the British are too powerful to conquer.
18) Both John Locke and Thomas Jefferson wrote about the natural rights of man. In what document are these "unalienable rights" specifically mentioned?
A) the Bill of Rights
B) the Mayflower Compact
C) the Preamble to the Constitution
D) the Declaration of Independence
19) The concept that the people of a nation have a right to overthrow a government that acts against their common interests is known as
A) civil rights.
B) checks and balances.
C) the right of revolution.
D) the right of first refusal.
20) The Treaty of Paris of 1783
A) ended French colonial holdings in North America.
B) eventually became a major cause of the Mexican War.
C) granted the United States independence from England.
D) ensured Loyalists would not be compensated for their lands.
21) Where did Washington and his troops winter and train during the 1777-78 winter months?
A) Mount Joy B) Brandywine C) Valley Forge D) Fort Ticonderoga
22) Lord Charles Cornwallis role in the American Revolution is significant because
A) he successfully defeated Washington outside of New York City.
B)led the British invasion of the colonies by way of the Canada territory.
C) he abandoned the British Army and declared his allegiance to the Colonial Army.
D) his invasion of Virginia eventually led to his being trapped in 1781 at the battle of Yorktown.
23) The outcome at Saratoga was important because
A) it led to victory in the South.
B) it won the Americans a foreign ally.
C) it was the first major victory for the colonists.
D) it marked the end of British presence in the north.
24) In the United States, the Marquis de Lafayette is best known for
A) giving away secrets to the Germans in World War II.
B) his role in the XYZ Affair with the French government.
C) fighting for the United States in the American Revolution.
D) leading the French Resistance to aid American pilots in World War II.
25) The British surrendered to the Continental Army in 1781 following
A) the Boston Massacre.
B) the Battle of Yorktown.
C) the Battle of Saratoga.
D) the Battle of Lexington.
26) · Commander of Continental Army
· Encamped troops at Valley Forge in 1777
· Lost Philadelphia to British in 1777
· Accepted British surrender at Yorktown
All of these are describing the actions of what personality of the American Revolution?
A) John Adams
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) George Washington
27) April, 1775- Americans win at Lexington & Concord
June, 1775- Americans retreat at Bunker Hill
December, 1776- Americans re-capture Trenton
September, 1777- British occupy Philadelphia
It is evident from these events that in the early years of the Revolutionary War
A) the British were close to winning.
B) the Americans were close to winning.
C) most of the fighting was in the South.
D) that the outcome was far from decided.
28) Comparing Sides in the American Revolution
Based on this chart, Colonial forces would have had an advantage
A)recruiting large amounts of soldiers.
B) in training their armies to fight the British.
C) planning where to engage British forces in battle.
D) in blockading British ships from the American coast.
29) Based on the same chart, British forces would have had a major disadvantage
A) getting their troops to specific locations.
B) finding leaders capable of commanding troops.
C) making enough goods to keep their forces armed.
D) breaking coastal blockades set up by the Americans.
30) "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government..."
The Declaration of Independence, 1776
This passage BEST represents which of these theories in the Declaration of Independence?
A) Foucault's theory
B) Machiavelli's Theory
C) Social Contract Theory
D) Popular Sovereignty Theory
31) * Quakers * Catholics
* Religious tolerance * flexible social structure
All of these are associated with what colonial North American region?
A)New England B) West Indies C) Middle Colonies D) Southern Colonies
32) Which statement BEST describes a difference between the English and French in regards to exploration and colonization?
A)The French were less interested in occupying territories
B)The French and the English both settled in North America
C)Fur trading was the main source of money for the English
D)Only the French were interested in converting the natives
33) The House of Burgesses and the Mayflower Compact both reflect the ideas of ______that the Western Europeans brought with them to the New World
A) representative government B) religious tolerance C) Columbian exchange D) capitalist theory
34) The Navigation Acts were designed to promote trade with the colonies at the expense of colonial trade with the French and the Spanish. This practice best exhibits
A)Capitalism B) Industrialism C) Mercantilism D) Socialism
35) With which religious movement was George Whitfield MOST closely associated?
A)Restorationism B) Predestination C) The Great Awakening D) Unitarian Universalism