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Membership in the Catholic Church.
Property.
Permission from the King.
Royal blood.
6 ptsQuestion 3
They could relieve social tensions at home because the poor and unemployed, and even prisoners, could be sent to the colonies.
Their economies could be regulated (with 'Navigation Acts') to prevent them from producing goods that would compete with the mother country.
They would create a captive colonial market for goods produced in the mother country.
They would produce personal wealth for the monarch who owned them.
They would provide silver, gold, and other natural resources for the mother country.
Which of the following is NOT true of role of English colonies according to mercantilism?
7 ptsQuestion 4
THe Glorious Revolution showed a king could be deposed according to constitutional principles.
Which of the following is NOT related to constitutional monarchy in England?
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William and Mary were good Catholics.
William and Mary issued an act of religious toleration and signed a Bill of Rights to ensure there would never be absolute monarchy in England.
John Locke insisted people had natural rights, and the government was created to protect them (and the people could replace the government if it failed to protect their natural rights).
6 ptsQuestion 5
Salutary Neglect
Admiralty Courts
Navigation Acts
Writs of Assistance
Which of the following was NOT an example of a British policy that angered many colonists in America?
7 ptsQuestion 6
It was also called the Seven Years' War (and it was the first true "world war").
The English nearly won, but were defeated by the French in 1763.
It began in America.
Which of the following is NOT true about the French and Indian War?
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It was very expensive.
George Washington was in part responsible for the first fatalities of the war.
7 ptsQuestion 7
It was signed in 1783.
The war it ended doubled Britain's national debt.
Spain lost Florida to Britain, but gained the Louisiana Territory from France.
It gave England French colonies all over the world, including India.
France was left with NO territory on the North American continent.
Which of the following is NOT true about the Treaty of Paris that ended the French and Indian War?
7 ptsQuestion 8
After 1763, few people immigrated to the American colonies due to the constant threat of war and high taxes.
The British in England paid 26 times more in taxes than the typical American colonist.
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III to separate the American colonists and Indians by an imaginary line along the Appalachian Mountains.
Which of the following statements is NOT true?
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Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763 was the result of American colonists moving west into Indian lands after the French were defeated.
The textbook claims that the tens of thousands of European immigrants and enslaved Africans represent "the greatest mass migration in history to that point."
7 ptsQuestion 9
By 1765 the national debt (that had increased greatly because of the French and Indian War) had already been paid.
The Colonies were already paying more taxes than people were paying in England.
After 1763, the King declared only the colonies could tax the colonies.
They were meant to raise revevnue, not regulate trade.
The Americans had only 13 representatives in Parilament to protect their interests.
American merchants may not have agreed with all of the Navigation Acts, but they recognized the authority of Parliament to regulate trade within the Empire. The Sugar Act (1764) and Stamp Act (1765), however, were different because...
7 ptsQuestion 10
They believed stationing troops in America after 1763 violated a traditional British liberty, that of denying the government a standing army in times of peace. The belief was that if the government had a large army when it was not fighting a foreign enemy, the government might use that army against its own people.
Which was NOT true of Whigs in Colonial America?
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Their name had earlier applied to critics of royal power.
This was a name adopted by Americans who opposed British policies in the 1760s and 1770s.
The agreed that Americans were represented in Parliament "virtually" and therefore should pay the Stamp Act.
7 ptsQuestion 11
The Sons of Liberty planting Liberty Trees as a sign of protest.
The Daughters of LIberty spinning their own fabrics to avoid buying cloth manufactured in Britain.
Patrick Henry's "Virginia Resolves" which declared that as Englishmen, only Virginians could tax Virginians.
Nonimportation.
The Townshend Acts.
Which of the following was NOT a reaction AGAINST the Stamp Act?
7 ptsQuestion 12
The Boston Massacre.
The 'Gaspee' Incident.
Which of the following is NOT directly linked to the British Military presence in the 13 Colonies?
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The Boston Tea Party.
Franklin's quote about British soldiers sent to America: they would "not find a rebellion; (but) they may indeed make one."
7 ptsQuestion 13
The Second Continental Congress.
The creation of the Continental Army.
The Committees of Correspondence.
The First Continental Congress.
The appointment of General Thomas Gage as governor of Massachusetts.
Which of the following is NOT an example of growing cooperation amongst the 13 colonies?
6 ptsQuestion 14
That James Otis demanded freedom for slaves and women.
Americans trying to win independence from Great Britain.
That Thomas Paine wrote "Common Sense."
White colonists claiming their freedom while continuing to exercise "oppressive power" over enslaved Africans.
What did Phillis Wheatley highlight as "absurd"?
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7 ptsQuestion 15
Britain's attempt at more direct control over the colonies in the 1760s and 1770s contradicted the belief that (ironically) as Englishmen and women, Americans had the English right to govern themselves.
Merchants like John Hancock, who was also a smuggler, would lose a fortune if forced by the British to pay more taxes.
The Americans had to pay more taxes than people in other countries.
The influence of radicals such as Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry.
Some slaver owners feared the British might abolish slavery.
Which is NOT a reason given in the textbook to explain why Americans fought for Independence?
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