Exam 4: The Empire in Transition

The Townshend Duties of 1767

The leading colonial figure in the Boston Massacre was

The Stamp Act was interpreted by the colonies as a direct attempt by Parliament to raise revenues without the consent of the colonial legislatures.

The British Parliament operated on a theory of representation called ________ representation.

Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by

The Conciliatory Propositions (1775)proposed that the colonists not be taxed by Parliament,but rather tax themselves at Parliament's demand.

The Stamp Act of 1765

At the time of the Battles of Lexington and Concord,General Thomas Gage,the commander of the British garrison in Boston,

Prior to the 1760s,cooperation between colonies was not good.

In the years after the Glorious Revolution,political power in England increasingly shifted toward

Why did the Navigation Acts not spark colonial rebellion as did the acts passed after 1763?

Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by passing a series of laws called the ________.

In North America during the eighteenth century,French relations with the Indians differed from that of the English in that they

The proposed Albany Plan of 1754

The character of the royal officials in America contributed to the overall looseness of the British imperial system.

In 1775,the Conciliatory Propositions

In general,the colonists regarded the political burden of the post-1763 imperial program to be worse than the economic burden.

A private company,Britain's ________ Company,stood to benefit from the passage of the Tea Act of 1773.

Throughout the French and Indian War,the Iroquois

The legislation confirming parliamentary authority over the colonies was called the ________ Act.