Question 1

Answer the following  questions :
-Minutemen

Accepted Answer

A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court. 
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury. 
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766. 
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters)who owned estates in the West Indies. 
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F)A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G)Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H)The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K)British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L)Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M)A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N)British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O)Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P)September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q)An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R)A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S)Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T)Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U)A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V)The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate. 
A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court. 
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury. 
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766. 
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters)who owned estates in the West Indies. 
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F)A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G)Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H)The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K)British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L)Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M)A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N)British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O)Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P)September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q)An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R)A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S)Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T)Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U)A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V)The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate.

Question 2

Why did the Tea Act reignite colonial resistance in 1773?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Colonial

Question 3

Which of the following statements most describes the colonial boycott efforts of 1768-1769?

Accepted Answer

A)  The boycott failed because southern merchants refused to support the northern organizers. 
B)  Merchants and consumers needed little persuasion to join the boycott. 
C)  Consumers in the colonies disagreed over which imported items to boycott. 
D)  Support began in seaport cities,then spread to more major population centers. 
A)  The boycott failed because southern merchants refused to support the northern organizers. 
B)  Merchants and consumers needed little persuasion to join the boycott. 
C)  Consumers in the colonies disagreed over which imported items to boycott. 
D)  Support began in seaport cities,then spread to more major population centers.

Question 4

Why did the leaders of the mainland colonies and of Britain fail to reach a political compromise to save the empire?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Lack of

Question 5

Answer the following  questions :
-English common law

Accepted Answer

A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court. 
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury. 
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766. 
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters)who owned estates in the West Indies. 
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F)A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G)Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H)The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K)British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L)Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M)A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N)British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O)Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P)September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q)An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R)A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S)Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T)Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U)A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V)The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate. 
A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court. 
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury. 
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766. 
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters)who owned estates in the West Indies. 
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F)A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G)Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H)The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K)British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L)Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M)A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N)British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O)Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P)September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q)An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R)A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S)Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T)Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U)A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V)The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate.

Question 6

Why did the British General Gage refuse to use his military force to protect the stamps that were to be used once the Stamp Act took effect?

Accepted Answer

A)  Gage himself believed that the Stamp Act was constitutionally problematic. 
B)  He knew his force was too small to effectively quell the widespread protests. 
C)  Gage believed that military force would disperse the protests but spark an insurrection. 
D)  He recognized that a new military conflict would only drain Britain's coffers further. 
A)  Gage himself believed that the Stamp Act was constitutionally problematic. 
B)  He knew his force was too small to effectively quell the widespread protests. 
C)  Gage believed that military force would disperse the protests but spark an insurrection. 
D)  He recognized that a new military conflict would only drain Britain's coffers further.

Question 7

Answer the following  questions :
-Stamp Act Congress

Accepted Answer

A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court. 
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury. 
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766. 
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters)who owned estates in the West Indies. 
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F)A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G)Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H)The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K)British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L)Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M)A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N)British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O)Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P)September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q)An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R)A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S)Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T)Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U)A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V)The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate. 
A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court. 
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury. 
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766. 
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters)who owned estates in the West Indies. 
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F)A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G)Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H)The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K)British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L)Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M)A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N)British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O)Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P)September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q)An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R)A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S)Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T)Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U)A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V)The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate.

Question 8

If Grenville's and Townshend's initiatives had been successful,how would the character of the British imperial system have changed?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Politica

Question 9

Answer the following  questions :
-Townshend Act of 1767

Accepted Answer

A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court. 
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury. 
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766. 
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters)who owned estates in the West Indies. 
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F)A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G)Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H)The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K)British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L)Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M)A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N)British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O)Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P)September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q)An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R)A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S)Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T)Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U)A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V)The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate. 
A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court. 
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury. 
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766. 
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters)who owned estates in the West Indies. 
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F)A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G)Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H)The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K)British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L)Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M)A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N)British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O)Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P)September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q)An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R)A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S)Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T)Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U)A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V)The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate.

Question 10

By 1770,after five years of crisis and debate over American sovereignty,

Accepted Answer

A)  most Americans wanted to sever their connection to the British Empire and renounce loyalty to George III. 
B)  outspoken colonial leaders had repudiated Parliament and claimed equality for their own assemblies under the king. 
C)  Thomas Hutchinson and many other British officials accepted the idea of colonial representatives serving in Parliament. 
D)  George III was willing to take the title of "King of America," but Parliamentary leaders refused to divide sovereignty in this manner. 
A)  most Americans wanted to sever their connection to the British Empire and renounce loyalty to George III. 
B)  outspoken colonial leaders had repudiated Parliament and claimed equality for their own assemblies under the king. 
C)  Thomas Hutchinson and many other British officials accepted the idea of colonial representatives serving in Parliament. 
D)  George III was willing to take the title of "King of America," but Parliamentary leaders refused to divide sovereignty in this manner.

Question 11

Who led the moderate faction at the Second Continental Congress and won approval of a petition expressing loyalty to George III and asking for a repeal of oppressive parliamentary legislation?

Accepted Answer

A)  John Adams 
B)  Thomas Gage 
C)  Thomas Paine 
D)  John Dickinson 
A)  John Adams 
B)  Thomas Gage 
C)  Thomas Paine 
D)  John Dickinson

Question 12

Which of the following was the purpose of the Tea Act imposed by Parliament on the colonies in May 1773?

Accepted Answer

A)  It was intended to break the American boycott of tea imports from England. 
B)  Parliament passed the Tea Act to raise more revenue from the sale of tea in order to cover military costs in North America. 
C)  The British needed to bail out the financially strapped British East India Company. 
D)  Parliament meant to punish the Americans for importing tea from Holland. 
A)  It was intended to break the American boycott of tea imports from England. 
B)  Parliament passed the Tea Act to raise more revenue from the sale of tea in order to cover military costs in North America. 
C)  The British needed to bail out the financially strapped British East India Company. 
D)  Parliament meant to punish the Americans for importing tea from Holland.

Question 13

Answer the following  questions :
-Second Continental Congress

Accepted Answer

A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court. 
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury. 
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766. 
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters)who owned estates in the West Indies. 
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F)A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G)Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H)The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K)British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L)Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M)A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N)British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O)Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P)September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q)An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R)A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S)Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T)Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U)A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V)The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate. 
A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court. 
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury. 
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766. 
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters)who owned estates in the West Indies. 
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F)A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G)Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H)The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K)British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L)Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M)A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N)British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O)Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P)September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q)An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R)A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S)Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T)Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U)A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V)The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate.

Question 14

Which side was responsible for pushing events toward a military confrontation?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Britain'

Question 15

Answer the following  questions :
-Stamp Act of 1765

Accepted Answer

A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court. 
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury. 
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766. 
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters)who owned estates in the West Indies. 
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F)A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G)Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H)The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K)British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L)Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M)A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N)British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O)Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P)September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q)An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R)A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S)Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T)Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U)A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V)The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate. 
A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court. 
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury. 
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766. 
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters)who owned estates in the West Indies. 
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F)A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G)Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H)The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K)British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L)Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M)A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N)British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O)Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P)September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q)An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R)A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S)Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T)Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U)A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V)The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate.

Question 16

The narrative suggests that the war for American independence was not inevitable and that the British Empire could have been saved.Do you agree? Was there a point during the imperial crisis at which peaceful compromise was possible?
Answer Key

Accepted Answer

Despite their efforts,the British were u

Question 17

In the decade before the American Revolution,the colonists achieved the greatest effect by using which of the following means of protest?

Accepted Answer

A)  Boycotts 
B)  Strikes 
C)  Petitions 
D)  Riots 
A)  Boycotts 
B)  Strikes 
C)  Petitions 
D)  Riots

Question 18

Answer the following  questions :
-Dunmore's War

Accepted Answer

A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court. 
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury. 
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766. 
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters)who owned estates in the West Indies. 
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F)A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G)Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H)The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K)British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L)Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M)A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N)British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O)Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P)September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q)An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R)A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S)Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T)Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U)A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V)The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate. 
A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court. 
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury. 
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766. 
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters)who owned estates in the West Indies. 
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F)A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G)Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H)The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K)British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L)Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M)A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N)British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O)Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P)September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q)An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R)A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S)Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T)Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U)A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V)The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate.

Question 19

How was rhetoric about slavery and freedom employed by the American colonists during the years between 1763 and 1776? How did white colonists apply such rhetoric to themselves? How did it affect the experiences of African American slaves?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Whites'

Question 20

Answer the following  questions :
-nonimportation movement

Accepted Answer

A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court. 
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury. 
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766. 
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters)who owned estates in the West Indies. 
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F)A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G)Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H)The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K)British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L)Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M)A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N)British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O)Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P)September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q)An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R)A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S)Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T)Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U)A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V)The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate. 
A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court. 
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury. 
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766. 
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters)who owned estates in the West Indies. 
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F)A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G)Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H)The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K)British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L)Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M)A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N)British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O)Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P)September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q)An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R)A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S)Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T)Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U)A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V)The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate.

Exam 5: The Problem of Empire, 1754-1776

Answer the following questions : -Minutemen

Why did the Tea Act reignite colonial resistance in 1773?

Which of the following statements most describes the colonial boycott efforts of 1768-1769?

Why did the leaders of the mainland colonies and of Britain fail to reach a political compromise to save the empire?

Answer the following questions : -English common law

Why did the British General Gage refuse to use his military force to protect the stamps that were to be used once the Stamp Act took effect?

Answer the following questions : -Stamp Act Congress

If Grenville's and Townshend's initiatives had been successful,how would the character of the British imperial system have changed?

Answer the following questions : -Townshend Act of 1767

By 1770,after five years of crisis and debate over American sovereignty,

Who led the moderate faction at the Second Continental Congress and won approval of a petition expressing loyalty to George III and asking for a repeal of oppressive parliamentary legislation?

Which of the following was the purpose of the Tea Act imposed by Parliament on the colonies in May 1773?

Answer the following questions : -Second Continental Congress

Which side was responsible for pushing events toward a military confrontation?

Answer the following questions : -Stamp Act of 1765

The narrative suggests that the war for American independence was not inevitable and that the British Empire could have been saved.Do you agree? Was there a point during the imperial crisis at which peaceful compromise was possible? Answer Key

In the decade before the American Revolution,the colonists achieved the greatest effect by using which of the following means of protest?

Answer the following questions : -Dunmore's War

How was rhetoric about slavery and freedom employed by the American colonists during the years between 1763 and 1776? How did white colonists apply such rhetoric to themselves? How did it affect the experiences of African American slaves?

Answer the following questions : -nonimportation movement

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