Exam 5: Reform Resistance Revolution

The group most responsible for overt resistance to acts of Parliament were the

George Washington was named military commander of the Continental Army because he had military experience and was from a region outside of the northeast.

The minister in charge of colonial policy under William Pitt was_____________.

An act, passed after the failure of the Stamp Act that affirmed Parliament's sovereignty over the colonies was the_____________ Act.

One of the consequences of colonial rhetoric about liberty and rights was

The principal reform envisioned by the Townshend Revenue Act was to

The 1733 Molasses Act was successful in keeping French molasses out of the British colonies in North America.

The Sugar Act (1764) placed a duty, or tax, on

Outline the final imperial crisis of 1773-1775 that led to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War.

Revenues raised by the Townshend Revenue Act of 1767 were to be used for

Describe the beginnings of the antislavery movement in pre-revolutionary America.

Under the Tea Act, the price of legal tea would be_____________ than before.

Describe the intellectual movement toward independence in 1776.

In response to the Boston Port Act, colonists organized the First_____________.

The Coercive Acts

Describe the state of British politics in the critical decade of the 1760s.

"The Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms" was written mostly by_____________.

The skirmish between British troops and colonists that led to the death of five colonists was the Boston Massacre.

The Quebec Act (1774) established French civil law and the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec.

Following the Coercive Acts, the American colonies called the First Continental Congress.