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Question 1

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The major participants in the Seven Years' War in North America, were
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  • 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

Question 2

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During the eighteenth century, in North America, the French differed from the English in Indian relations, in that the French
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  • 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

Question 3

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

Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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When he became British Prime Minister, George Grenville
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  • 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

Question 7

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The Proclamation of 1763
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  • 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

Question 8

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The Stamp Act of 1765
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  • 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

Question 9

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The Paxton Boys and the Regulators both
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  • 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

Question 10

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In 1766, in response to colonial protests against the Stamp Act, the British government
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  • 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

Question 11

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The Declaratory Act of 1766
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  • 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

Question 12

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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

Question 13

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Taverns were important in the growth of revolutionary sentiment because
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  • 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

Question 14

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In 1774, the First Continental Congress
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  • 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

Question 15

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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

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

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During the 50 years after the Glorious Revolution, the British policy of neglect of the colonial economy
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  • 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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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The British victory in the Great War for Empire
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  • 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

Question 21

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

Question 22

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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

Question 23

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Colonists argued that the Stamp Act was not proper because
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  • 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

Question 24

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

Question 25

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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.
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  • True
  • False

Question 26

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

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

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

Question 30

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"No taxation without representation" centered around which of the following concepts?
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  • 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

Question 31

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

Question 32

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

Question 33

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The Daughters of Liberty
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  • 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

Question 34

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

Question 35

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The Mutiny Act required that
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  • 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

Question 36

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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

Question 37

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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

Question 38

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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

Question 39

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

Question 40

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What did Parliament do that caused many colonists in America to resent British rule?
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  • 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

Question 41

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

Question 42

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The non-importation agreement between colonists in 1768 was
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  • 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

Question 43

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The Tea Act of 1773
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  • 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

Question 44

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

Question 45

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

Question 46

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

Question 47

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The Intolerable Acts were the final straw for the colonists. Which is NOT TRUE about them?
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  • 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

Question 48

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Which is NOT one of the major decisions mad eby the First Continental Congress?
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  • 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

Question 49

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Paul Revere is famous for doing what?
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  • 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

Question 50

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Why are the skirmishes at Lexington and Concord called "the shots heard round the world"?
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  • 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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