Exam 7: The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775

It might be said that it was the British who were revolutionaries in 1763 and the colonists who were conservatives attempting to preserve the status quo.Explain.

Both the British and the colonists were devoted to the principle of "No taxation without representation." To what extent did both taxation and representation become major sources of controversy between the colonists and Parliament?

Passage of the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act  

The Townshend Acts  

In response to the Boston Tea Party, Parliament  

The founding of the American colonies by the British was  

African Americans during the Revolutionary War  

When it came to the Revolution, it could be said that the American colonists were  

Despite some economic benefits of the mercantile system, the American colonists generally disliked it because it  

Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A)clash at Lexington and Concord, (B)meeting of the First Continental Congress, (C)Quebec Act, and (D)Boston Tea Party.  

As a result of Parliament's rejection of the petitions of the Continental Congress  

Match each individual on the left with the correct description. A.Samuel Adams B.John Adams C.Crispus Attucks D.Baron von Stueben 1)a casualty of the Boston Massacre 2)a foreign volunteer who drilled American troops during the War of Independence 3)a pamphleteer who first organized committees of correspondence to exchange ideas and information on resisting British policy 4)a Massachusetts politician who defeated the proposed home rule solution to the imperial crisis at the First Continental Congress advocated by colonial moderates

Given that the Quebec Act did not apply to the thirteen seaboard colonies, why did the act create such a stir of protest among them?

Women supported protests against the Stamp Act in all of the following ways except  

The local committees of correspondence organized by Samuel Adams  

Evaluate the role and influence of American women in organizing colonial protests and actions against politically and economically coercive British laws and taxes in the American colonies.Why did scholars of the Revolutionary era assert that American women played a key role in facilitating the success of the overall Revolutionary War effort? 

Many Whigs in Britain hoped for an American victory in the War for Independence because they  

As a result of American opposition to the Townshend Acts  

All of the following were weaknesses of the British military during the War for Independence except  

The first Navigation Laws were designed to