US History 103- Chapters 6-8A

Identifications

Instructions: Identify the following terms:

1. coverture

2. George Washington

3. Sugar Act of 1764

4. "Toy.,

5. Gage. Sir Thomas

6. Second Continental Congress

Multiple Choice

klentift the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1. King Louis XIV of France

a. induced Frenchmen and women to go to New France by enacting liberal laws there.
b. opened immigration to all nationalities and faiths.
c. actually forced some subjects to go to Canada.
d. encouraged Huguenots to go to North America.
e. all of these choices.

2. The population of New France grew much more slowly than that of British America because

a. the French Crown forbade Huguenots (French Protestants) from going to North America.
b. the poor soil of the St. Lawrence Valley was unattractive to French farmers.
c. the climate of Canada was discouraging.
d. all of these choices.
e. none of these choices.

3. So far as the colonial elite was concerned. the most troublesome ethnic gxoup in the colonies was

a. English.
b. Penns)lvania Dutch.
c. German.
d. Scotch-Irish.
c. Italian.

4. When General Amherst asked Parliament for an American garrison of 5,000-6.000 troops

a. he v‘as forced to resiat his commission. p
b. riots broke out in Boston, New York. and Baltimore.
c. Parliament enacted the Declaratory Act.
d. Parliament sent him 10.000 soldiers.
e. Parliament refused to send any.

5. The Stamp Act promised to be costly

a. lawyers.
b. publishers of newspapers.
c. tavern keepers.
d. all of these above.
e. none of these choices.

6. Pontiac was of which tribe?

a. Delaware.
b. Ottawa.
c. Iroquois.
d. Mohawk.
e. none of these choices.

7. Politically, the Stamp Act was foolish because

a. the concept of a stamp tax was foreign to colonials.
b. the colonial postal service was unpopular even before the act.
c. it hit hardest community leaders and the most articulate colonials.
d. it did not raise enough money.
e. all of these choices.

8. The colonial upper class

a. generally opposed the Stamp Act.
b. worried about the violence of the Stamp Act protesters.
c. supported the resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress.
d. all of these choices.
e. none of these choices.

9. When James Otis proposed that the colonies elect members of Parliament

a. most colonial protesters rejected the proposal.
b. Parliament rejected the proposal.
c. he was denying the validity of the principle of "virtual representation."
d. all of these choices.
e. none of these choices.

10. The principle of "virtual representation" held that

a. every member of Parliament represented every British subject living throughout the empire.
b. elected representatives had to reside in the district they represented.
c. the king could speak for all British subjects.
d. all Englishmen could vote.
e. all of these choices.

11.All of the following were members of the co ittee Sherman. that prepared the Declaration of Independence

a. Thomas JeffersonCX Ce
b. Roger Sher
C. Alexander Hamilton.
d. Benjamin Franklin.
e. all of these choices.

12. The legal defense of the Boston Massacre included the argument that

a. the soldiers' lives had been in danger.
b. the people that attacked them were of the lowest social class.
c. the crown was at fault for quartering soldiers in a populous town, not the soldiers themselves.
d. the redcoats were being attacked.
e. all of these choices.

13. Taverns in colonial cities

a. were frequented only by the lowest social orders.
b. often served as neighborhood social institutions,
c. were hotbeds of pro-British sentiment.
d. were not important as far as public events were concerned.
e. none of these choices.

14. The Intolerable Acts of 1774

a. tried to single out the perpetrators of the Boston Tea Party for punishment.
b. blamed the Boston Massacre on the Sons of Liberty.
C. tried to stop the Committees of Correspondence.
d. put an end to colonial protest in the southern colonies.
e. punished all the people of Boston and, to some extent., of all Massachusetts.

15. The Intolerable Acts

a. brought leaders from all the colonies together.
b.isolated Massachusetts from the other colonies.
c.won considerable popular support in the colonies.
d.caused the adjournment of the Second Continental Congress. proved to be unimportant.

16.The Declaration of Independence is chiefly remembered for a. its eloquent call on behalf of the rights of all humankind. its denunciation of King George a

a.its summation of British colonial policy.
b.its condemnation of slavery.
c.its list of economic wrongs committed by the British.

The :her the statement is true or false.

1. liaguenots made up a substantialportion of the population of New France. Women's property rights in the colonies were equal to men.

2. George Washington first made a name for himself as a soldier when he defeated a French and Indian force ii westernPennsylvania.

3. The chief reason the British stationed so many soldiers in the colonies after the French and Indian War was to frighten the Americans into submission.

4. Among his other goals, George Grenville wanted to centralize administration of the British Empire.

5. In 1770, Parliament repealed the Townshend Duties, except for a 3d. per pound duty on tea.