Exam 5: Reform, Resistance, Revolution, 1763-1776

The Boston slave whose poetry deplored the institution of slavery was ____________________.

At first, Britain's George Grenville used voluntary measures to get the colonists to pay for British troops stationed in North America.

The threat of colonial nonexportation was much more radical than nonimportation.

Many colonists blamed one another for failing to win complete repeal of all of the Townshend duties.

The author of Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania was John Dickinson.

North Carolina's political problem in the backcountry was ____________________.

The Currency Act of 1764 forbade the colonies to issue any paper money as legal tender.

Parliament repealed the Stamp Act primarily because of pressure from British merchants and manufacturers.

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

Thomas Paine's Common Sense was particularly effective in nudging the Mid-Atlantic colonies toward independence.

The Declaratory Act was acceptable to the colonists because they interpreted it as prohibiting Parliament from levying taxes on the colonists.

____________________ colonies sent delegates to the Stamp Act Congress.

The Coercive Acts

____________________, a Philadelphia lawyer, authored Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania in which he argued that all parliamentary taxation for revenue violated individual rights.

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

The Quartering Act of 1765 required the army to quarter its soldiers in public buildings rather than private homes.

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

Pontiac's War was named for a Seneca chief.

Britain's first effort at military coercion of the colonies failed with the ____________________.

The Proclamation of 1763 was designed to benefit western Indians.