Exam 4: The Empire in Transition

The Coercive Acts were first a response to the Boston Massacre.

In their competition for the allegiance of native tribes,the English could offer more and better goods than the French.

Trace the course and nature of colonial objections to British policies between 1763 and 1775.

The Treaty of Utrecht (1713)signaled a rare French victory over the English.

Parliament and the colonial legislatures did not always see eye to eye,but at least they shared a similar understanding about the nature of representative government.

The conflict between England and America was made insoluble because of a basic difference of opinion over the nature of ________.

During the first half of the eighteenth century,royal officials in America

In 1770 Prime Minister Lord North repealed all of the ________ except the tax on tea.

Was the American Revolution avoidable? What did the British government do that inadvertently encouraged colonial rebellion?

The Boston Tea Party of December 1773

The first clash of the French and Indian War took place near what is now

The Boston Massacre was followed by three years of relative peace and quiet.

The parliamentary attempt to restrict westward movement following the Seven Years' War was called the ________.

In the eighteenth century,the English constitution was

Despite the flurry of parliamentary legislation after 1763,most colonists found ways either to live with or to get around these laws.

Many colonists believed the legislation passed by the Grenville ministry in 1764-1765

The ________ Act granted political rights to Roman Catholics.

Select any four acts of Parliament and explain their effect on the colonies and the nature of the colonial objection to each.

Following the Seven Years' War,the British government faced huge problems of imperial organization but had ample funds to deal with those problems.

Taverns were important in the growth of revolutionary sentiment because