Question 1

Which of the following actions did the First Continental Congress ultimately decide to implement in 1774?

Accepted Answer

A)  Requesting that Thomas Jefferson draft a document outlining the rights and grievances of the American colonies 
B)  Declaring itself a sovereign political body composed of representatives from each colony's assembly 
C)  Threatening to cut off almost all American exports to Britain,Ireland,and the West Indies 
D)  Sending a delegation of representatives to make the American colonies' case in an upcoming meeting of Parliament 
A)  Requesting that Thomas Jefferson draft a document outlining the rights and grievances of the American colonies 
B)  Declaring itself a sovereign political body composed of representatives from each colony's assembly 
C)  Threatening to cut off almost all American exports to Britain,Ireland,and the West Indies 
D)  Sending a delegation of representatives to make the American colonies' case in an upcoming meeting of Parliament

Question 2

Answer the following  questions :
-Coercive Acts

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 3

What were the core constitutional principles over which the colonists and the ministers in Parliament disagreed?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Colonist

Question 4

Which of the following was one reason the British sent 7,500 troops to North America after the end of the Great War for Empire in 1763?

Accepted Answer

A)  Military reinforcements were needed to protect the colonies from the Spanish. 
B)  The British government sought to prevent future Indian uprisings on the frontier. 
C)  The new era of peace in Europe required Britain to contrive another purpose for its troops. 
D)  Britain deployed new troops to America to rebuild the areas destroyed during the war. 
A)  Military reinforcements were needed to protect the colonies from the Spanish. 
B)  The British government sought to prevent future Indian uprisings on the frontier. 
C)  The new era of peace in Europe required Britain to contrive another purpose for its troops. 
D)  Britain deployed new troops to America to rebuild the areas destroyed during the war.

Question 5

The Townshend Acts of 1767 imposed duties on which of the following goods?

Accepted Answer

A)  Molasses and wheat exported to countries in continental Europe 
B)  All British-manufactured goods and tea imported into the colonies 
C)  Paper,paint,glass,and tea imported into the colonies 
D)  Indigo,wool,lumber,and naval supplies exported to Britain from the colonies 
A)  Molasses and wheat exported to countries in continental Europe 
B)  All British-manufactured goods and tea imported into the colonies 
C)  Paper,paint,glass,and tea imported into the colonies 
D)  Indigo,wool,lumber,and naval supplies exported to Britain from the colonies

Question 6

Members of activist groups,such as the Sons of Liberty,were typically which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  Leading colonial lawyers and merchants 
B)  Unemployed workers with little to lose from rioting 
C)  Artisans,shopkeepers,poor laborers,and seamen 
D)  Outside agitators looking to create disorder 
A)  Leading colonial lawyers and merchants 
B)  Unemployed workers with little to lose from rioting 
C)  Artisans,shopkeepers,poor laborers,and seamen 
D)  Outside agitators looking to create disorder

Question 7

In the 1760s and early 1770s,lawyers and other educated Americans used common-law arguments mainly to

Accepted Answer

A)  justify violent resistance to the Stamp Act. 
B)  call for the overthrow of King George III. 
C)  justify smuggling in violation of the Navigation Acts. 
D)  assert the colonists' rights and liberties as Englishmen. 
A)  justify violent resistance to the Stamp Act. 
B)  call for the overthrow of King George III. 
C)  justify smuggling in violation of the Navigation Acts. 
D)  assert the colonists' rights and liberties as Englishmen.

Which of the following actions did the First Continental Congress ultimately decide to implement in 1774?

Answer the following questions : -Coercive Acts

What were the core constitutional principles over which the colonists and the ministers in Parliament disagreed?

Which of the following was one reason the British sent 7,500 troops to North America after the end of the Great War for Empire in 1763?

The Townshend Acts of 1767 imposed duties on which of the following goods?

Members of activist groups,such as the Sons of Liberty,were typically which of the following?

In the 1760s and early 1770s,lawyers and other educated Americans used common-law arguments mainly to

Colliding Worlds, 1491-1600

American Experiments, 1521-1700

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Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720-1763

Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789

Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787-1820

Economic Transformations, 1800-1848

A Democratic Revolution, 1800-1848

Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820-1848

Imperial Ambitions, 1820-1848

Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844-1860

Bloody Ground: the Civil War, 1861-1865

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Conquering a Continent, 1860-1890

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Exam 5: The Problem of Empire, 1754-1776

Which of the following actions did the First Continental Congress ultimately decide to implement in 1774?

Answer the following questions : -Coercive Acts

What were the core constitutional principles over which the colonists and the ministers in Parliament disagreed?

Which of the following was one reason the British sent 7,500 troops to North America after the end of the Great War for Empire in 1763?

The Townshend Acts of 1767 imposed duties on which of the following goods?

Members of activist groups,such as the Sons of Liberty,were typically which of the following?

In the 1760s and early 1770s,lawyers and other educated Americans used common-law arguments mainly to

Colliding Worlds, 1491-1600

American Experiments, 1521-1700

The British Atlantic World, 1607-1750

Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720-1763

Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789

Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787-1820

Economic Transformations, 1800-1848

A Democratic Revolution, 1800-1848

Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820-1848

Imperial Ambitions, 1820-1848

Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844-1860

Bloody Ground: the Civil War, 1861-1865

Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Conquering a Continent, 1860-1890

Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877-1910

Making Modern American Culture, 1880-1917

Civilizations Inferno: the Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880-1917

Whose Government Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880-1917

An Emerging World Power, 1890-1918

Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919-1932

Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929-1938

The World at War, 1937-1945

Cold War America, 1945-1963

Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945-1963

Walking Into Freedom Land: the Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973

Uncivil Wars:liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961-1972

The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973-1980

Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980-1991

Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

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