US History Quiz 3
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How did colonists react to the Stamp Act?
Question 1 options:
Legislative resistance by elites.
Economic boycott through the use of nonimportation agreements.
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Popular Protests.
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What was an effect of salutary neglect on the American
colonies?
Question 2 options:
An abandonment of local political institutions in the colonies.
Colonists' belief that Britain's policy led directly to the economic success of the colonies.
An increase in slavery in New England colonies.
Colonists viewed themselves as maligned, second-tier citizens of the British empire.
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Though popular participation in colonial government was
limited, notions of "civic duty" encouraged citizens,
particularly property-holding men, to support and uphold order
by doing all the following
except
:
Question 3 options:
a) paying taxes.
b) regularly attending church.
c) voting.
d)
serving in the militia.
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Which of the following colonies banned slavery in its initial
colonial charter?
Question 4 options:
a) Massachusetts
b) South Carolina
c) Georgia
d)
Pennsylvania
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Colonial political structures could be defined in all the
following ways except:
Question 5 options:
a) Provincial
b) Proprietary
c) Charter
d)
Royal
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The 1739 Stono Rebellion:
Question 6 options:
a)
involved about 80 enslaved West Africans.
b)
was defined, in part, by a planned march the free black settlement of Fort Mose just over the border in
Spanish Florida.
c)
inspired a ban on syncretic languages white overseers could not understand.
d)
Both a and b
e)
All the above
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What about the Stamp Act caused such a sharp reaction by
the colonists?
Question 7 options:
a)
It was the first direct tax Parliament assessed on the colonies.
b)
The colonists were given a say in its passage, but the Crown disregarded their advice.
c)
It affected everyone in colonial society, not just merchants.
d)
a & c
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The end of the Seven Years' War brought which of the
following consequences that led to the American Revolution?
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a)
Acquisition of all territory in North America east of the Mississippi River.
b)
Doubling of England's national debt.
c)
Increased costs to protect newly-acquired territory.
d)
All of the above .
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Which of the following pieces of legislation did not take place
in the 1760s?
Question 9 options:
a) Sugar Act
b) Currency Act
c) Stamp Act
d)
Regulating Act
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What was the most important long-term economic
consequence of the Revolution?
Question 10 options:
a)
Exclusive trade with England.
b)
Exclusive trade with France.
c)
Restrictions on westward expansion hindered the development of domestic markets.
d)
The end of mercantilism and beginnings of capitalism.
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How did most British Americans respond to the capture of
Quebec in 1760?
Question 1 options:
a)
With a great deal of celebration because of the hostility many British Protestants felt towards the
majority Catholic French territory.
b)
With apprehension because they feared French Catholics would exert too much influence in colonial
affairs.
c)
With relative indifference. Most British Americans just wanted the war to end.
d)
With anticipation that the addition of new territory would overextend the empire and allow for an
American independence movement.
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Which of the following were used by seventeenth-century
English colonists as currency?
Question 2 options:
a) Tobacco
b) Nails
c) Wampum
d)
All the above
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Economically, the most important region of the British Empire
in the eighteenth-century was:
Question 3 options:
a) the Lower South.
b) New England.
c) the Caribbean.
d)
the Chesapeake.
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With a commercializing society, port cities became
increasingly important in British America. In which of the
following cities did enslaved people work on the docks, aboard
ships, and in other areas of the maritime economy?
Question 4 options:
a) Charleston
b) Philadelphia
c) Boston
d)
All the above.
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Political dissidents in British North America in the 1760s and
early 1770s often described themselves as:
Question 5 options:
a) Tories
b) Whigs
c) Patriots
d)
both b and c
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Enlightenment philosophers such as John Locke helped inspire
the American Revolution by:
Question 6 options:
a)
arguing against natural hierarchies.
b)
arguing for traditional hierarchies.
c)
making a compelling case against the right of governments to levy taxes.
d)
arguing universal suffrage based on land ownership.
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How did the royal governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore, respond
to the outbreak of hostilities in 1775?
Question 7 options:
a)
He fled to England on the fastest ship he could find.
b)
He joined George Washington's staff and became one of the leaders of the Continental Army.
c)
He declared martial law and offered freedom to all those enslaved by rebel planters who were willing
to fight for the British cause.
d)
He negotiated a treaty with neighboring Creek Indians and made war on Washington's forces in the
southern backcountry.
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Why did Stamp Act protests represent a turning point in the
movement for independence?
Question 8 options:
a)
Unlike other legislation, the Stamp Act impacted people from all social classes and elicited a popular
backlash.
b)
Colonial assemblies, for the first time, passed resolutions condemning legislation in strong language.
c)
Popular protests in port cities made the Stamp Act largely unenforceable.
d)
All the above.
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What does the American Yawp suggest as the "revolution's
most important long-term economic consequence"?
Question 9 options:
The establishment of America's first National Bank.
The shift to a more exploitative form of slavery by colonial farmers.
A massive national debt for Britain stemming from both the 7 Years' War and the American Revolution.
The end of Mercantilism.
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What was an outcome of Pontiac's War?
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A general abandonment of Protestantism along the colonial frontier.
The Navigation Acts were more properly enforced.
The French were forced to abandon settlements in the Ohio River Valley.
It demonstrated that coercion was not an effective strategy for imperial control.
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