Question 1

The Navigation Laws required that

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A)   all commerce to and from the colonies be carried only on British vessels.
B)   European goods going to the colonies had first to put in at a British port and pay duties.
C)   certain goods produced in the colonies, like tobacco, be shipped only to Britain.
D)   the colonies develop as quickly as possible the manufacturing of cloth and iron products for themselves.
E)   the colonies print their own currency. A, B, C

Question 2

To a degree, the Navigation Laws were beneficial to colonists because

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A)   colonists were paid subsidies for producing ships' parts and stores.
B)   tobacco growers were guaranteed a monopoly of the British market for their crop.
C)   colonial trading ships were protected by the Royal Navy.
D)   colonists did not have to deal with British intermediaries when marketing their goods.
E)   they helped create a surplus of money. A, B, C

Question 3

Change in colonial policy by the British government that helped precipitate the American Revolution involved

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A)   removing British troops from American soil.
B)   beginning a war with Spain.
C)   removing the majority of the British navy from American waters.
D)   compelling the American colonists to shoulder some of the financial costs of the empire.
E)   allying with the French. D

Question 4

List the following in order of their importance to colonial protest: pamphlets, boycotts, mob action, and committees of correspondence.Justify your ranking.

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Question 5

What does the phrase point of no return mean in the context of American colonial-British relations? Identify the point of no return in American colonial-British relations between 1760 and 1776 that marked an inevitable march to war and explain why you picked that event/date.

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Question 6

Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of the British and the colonists, respectively, as the American Revolutionary War began? What would Britain have to do to win? What would the American colonists have to do to win?

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Question 7

Arrange these events in chronological order: (A)Boston Massacre, (B)Townshend Acts, (C)Tea Act, and (D)Intolerable Acts.

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A)   A, B, C, D
B)   D, B, C, A
C)   C, B, D, A
D)   B, A, C, D
E)   A, C, D, B

Question 8

In 1773, ____ led the way by creating the first intercolonial committee of correspondence.

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A)   Virginia
B)   Maryland
C)   Massachusetts
D)   Georgia
E)   Rhode Island

Question 9

Match each act below with the correct description. 
A.Sugar Act
B.Stamp Act
C.Declaratory Act
1)first British law intended to raise revenues in the colonies
2)asserted Parliament's absolute power over the colonies
3)required colonists to lodge British troops in their homes
4)generated the most protest in the colonies.

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A)   A-3, B-2, C-l
B)   A-1, B-4, C-3
C)   A-1, B-4, C-2
D)   A-4, B-1, C-2
E)   A-2, B-1, C-4

Question 10

As the War for Independence began, the colonies had the advantage of

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A)   highly reliable and well-supplied troops.
B)   potential aid from the Armed Neutrality League.
C)   a well-organized, strongly committed, and united population.
D)   many outstanding civilian and military leaders.
E)   able naval leaders.

Question 11

The First Continental Congress

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A)   was attended by delegates from each of the thirteen colonies.
B)   adopted a moderate proposal for establishing a kind of home rule for the colonies under British direction.
C)   made a ringing declaration of America's independence from Britain.
D)   called for a complete boycott of British goods.
E)   failed to endorse a Declaration of Rights for colonists living in America.

Question 12

George Grenville responded to American protests against his policies by asserting that

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A)   colonists were represented in Parliament even if they did not think so.
B)   the power of Parliament was absolutely supreme in the empire.
C)   the concept of virtual representation was invalid.
D)   British subjects could be taxed without their being represented in Parliament.
E)   he would remove British troops in America if their protests stopped.

Question 13

Most American colonists held which of the following comparative views of the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts?

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A)   Resistance to the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts was futile because smuggling and effective boycotts were nearly impossible.
B)   The Stamp Act was more harmful and obnoxious than the Townshend Acts because the former was a hidden, indirect import duty on goods that was not readily apparent to the colonial consumer at the time of sale of the taxed good or service.
C)   The Stamp Act was less harmful and obnoxious than the Townshend Acts because the direct taxes on goods authorized by the Stamp Act could be reduced or repealed by colonial assemblies and governors.
D)   The Townshend Act was less harmful and obnoxious to American colonists because the goods were rarely used by colonists; while, the items taxed by the Stamp Act were commonly used by many colonists throughout America.
E)   The indirect versus direct and internal versus external tax distinctions made by British political authorities concerning the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts were meaningless because the American colonists had no meaningful political representation.

Question 14

The colonists faced all of the following weaknesses in the War for Independence except

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A)   poor organization.
B)   sectional jealousy, which constantly interfered with the appointment of military leaders.
C)   great difficulties in raising money to support the army.
D)   the use of numerous mediocre European officers.
E)   a weak central authority running the war effort.

Question 15

Colonists objected to the enactment of the Stamp Act in 1765 because

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A)   it was a very expensive tax.
B)   they believed it could not be repealed.
C)   they objected strenuously to the Stamp Act's naked violation of the political principle of "no taxation without representation."
D)   they opposed all taxes.
E)   they desired immediate political independence from Great Britain.

Question 16

American colonists responded to the various coercive colonial laws enacted by Parliament in the late 1760s and enforced by British colonial authorities in all of the following ways except they

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A)   convened the Stamp Act Congress to address their political and economic grievances to the king and Parliament including calling for the repeal of the Stamp Act.
B)   visibly protested paying any duties required by these coercive colonial laws, including the famous Boston Tea Party, in an effort to force their repeal and regain a measure of economic independence from Britain.
C)   rejected the assertion need to fund a British army in the colonies.
D)   engaged in a violent campaign of attacks against British soldiers and customs agents in major Atlantic seaboard cities.
E)   protested and publicly assailed the use of admiralty courts to try colonial violators of the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act.

Question 17

The British Crown's royal veto of colonial legislation

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A)   was used frequently to overturn laws passed in colonial assemblies.
B)   prohibited colonists from conducting the slave trade.
C)   was what finally provoked the War of Independence.
D)   was used sparingly by the British Parliament.
E)   was opposed by many members of the British Parliament.

Question 18

The tax on tea was retained when the Townshend Acts were repealed because

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A)   Parliament believed the colonists would not object.
B)   the money was needed to support troops.
C)   it kept alive the principle of parliamentary taxation.
D)   it was the only tax passed by the colonists.
E)   colonial governors requested it.

Question 19

In what ways were the mercantilist policies of the British burdensome to the colonists? In what ways were they beneficial? From this comparison, draw a conclusion about the effects of mercantilism and the Navigation Laws on British-colonial relations up to 1763.

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Question 20

Explain the relationship between mercantilism, the Navigation Laws, and British efforts to create an administrative structure for their empire after 1696.

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Exam 7: The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775