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1) Explain the success of the British in the Seven Years’ War.
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2) What were the concerns and strategies of native nations during/immediately after the
Seven Years’ War?
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3) Describe the expectations of Americans and the attitudes of the British toward them after
the Seven Years’ War. In what way did those expectations and attitudes set the stage for the
imperial crisis that followed?
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4) What was the English Opposition? How did that tradition of thought contribute to the
view of some Americans that English rulers were conspiring against their liberties?
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5) What did George Grenville hope to accomplish with the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act?
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6) Describe the evolution of American tactics for resisting British policy in the decade after
1765.
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7) How did the First Continental Congress steer a middle course between revolution and
conciliation?
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8) What accounts for the behavior of British ministers and members of Parliament during
the imperial crisis? Why didn’t British policymakers seek more effective ways of dealing with
the American resistance?
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9) Why did many Americans interpret Britain’s attempt to centralize its colonial empire as a
sinister conspiracy to enslave colonials by depriving them of property and liberty?
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10) By 1776, “most Americans had succeededtoo well at becoming English…. It was the
destiny of Americans to be American, not subject to British dominion.” In what ways had
American ideas of what it meant to be English changed since 1763?
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11) Was the dispute over taxation and representation a noble appeal to the principles of
freedom, or merely an issue of the pocketbook? Discuss the motivations of the revolutionaries.
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12) Samuel Adams remarked, “We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve
them.” What did Adams mean? Use the quotation to write an essay describing what some of the
events were and, more specifically, the techniques Adams and others used to “improve” them.
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13) What was novel and significant about the ideas put forth by Thomas Paine in Common
Sense?
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14) What part did Boston play in instigating the American Revolution?
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15) What were the main arguments colonists used to object to the increased taxes imposed by
Parliament?
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16) The tide of the Seven Years’ War began to change when English politician William
________ came out of retirement to direct the war.
16) ______
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17) According to the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1763, French holdings in North America
west of the Mississippi River were to be part of the empire of ________.
17) ______
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18) The ________ Act widened the terms of the imperial debate, intensified resistance within
the colonies, and most importantly provoked the first real display of intercolonial unity.
18) ______
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19) The British theory of ________ representation argued that the colonials were represented
in Parliament.
19) ______
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20) The Boston ________ was the inflammatory name given by Samuel Adams and friends
to the event in which a panicky squad of British soldiers fired on a crowd of hecklers hurling
snowballs.
20) ______
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21) Many colonials saw the ________ Acts as proof of a plot to enslave the colonies.
21) ______
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22) The first shot of the American Revolution was fired in ________, Massachusetts, in April
1775.
22) ______
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23) The Seven Years’ War pitted Britain against France in a struggle to control what region of
North America?
23) ______
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A) Louisiana
B) Lower Canada
C) Ohio Country
D) Northwest Territories
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24) The Treaty of Paris (1763) gave Britain title to all French claims
24) ______
A) west of the Mississippi, and Spanish Florida.
B) east of the Mississippi, and Spanish Florida.
C) east of the Mississippi, along with New Orleans and the French sugar islands of the
West Indies.
D) in North America.
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25) Whose defeat at the makeshift defensive structure known as Fort Necessity began the
Seven Years’ War?
25) ______
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A) George Washington
B) George Grenville
C) James Wolfe
D) the Iroquois
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26) Whose defeat at Quebec effectively ended the Seven Years’ War on the continent of
North America?
26) ______
A) the Spanish navy
B) the Marquis de Montcalm
C) James Wolfe
D) the Iroquois
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27) William Pitt was
27) ______
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A) the organizer of British victory in the Seven Years’ War.
B) relatively sympathetic to American protests during the years after the Seven Years’
War.
C) both the organizer of British victory in the Seven Years’ War, and relatively
sympathetic to American protests during the years after the Seven Years’ War.
D) None of these answers are correct.
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28) At the end of the Seven Years’ War, the Americans ________, while the British
________.
28) ______
A) were suffering from war-induced economic hard times; were saddled with a great war
debt
B) were proud to be British; were comparably proud of their fellow Englishmen in
America
C) sought to keep British troops to protect them from the natives; thought the Americans
should settle and defend the Ohio Country on their own
D) celebrated their contributions to victory; voiced contempt for American soldiering and
suspicions of American self-interest
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29) Regarding the consequences of the Seven Years’ War that led to the rift between the
colonies and England, which of the following is correctly stated?
29) ______
A) The French and native threats were removed, so the British government felt no need to
keep troops in the colonies.
B) The British government was soundly defeated.
C) British imperial officials, with a greatly expanded empire to run, were determined to
centralize and extend British rule over the colonies.
D) Both the Americans and the British came out of the war content with the way the
other had behaved.
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30) Who organized a combined uprising of the western tribes in the aftermath of the French
defeat?
30) ______
A) French fur traders who remained in the area
B) the Iroquois
C) Pontiac
D) Cadillac
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31) After the Seven Years’ War, Britain kept several thousand troops in the colonies, for all
of the following reasons EXCEPT to
31) ______
A) enforce the Proclamation of 1763 by providing protection to colonials settling west of
the Appalachians.
B) ensure the submission of French Canadians and Spanish Floridians.
C) monitor relations between natives and colonials.
D) encourage American acceptance of Grenville’s new measures.
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32) What was the basic British policy after 1763?
32) ______
A) to defeat the French
B) to centralize their empire
C) to deprive Americans of their liberties
D) to conspire to seize political power and influence
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33) Which of the following was NOT among British “new measures” after the end of the
Seven Years’ War?
33) ______
A) a new, lower tax—more effectively enforced—on imports of foreign molasses
B) a new, higher tax—more effectively enforced—on imports of British goods like glass
and tea
C) a tax—never effectively enforced—on official documents and legal transactions
D) colonial paper money prohibited from being legal tender
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34) Americans insisted that they be taxed by their own assemblies because they held to John
Locke’s dictum,
34) ______
A) that government governs best which governs least.
B) that all men are created equal.
C) that property guarantees liberty.
D) that there should be no taxation without representation.
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35) In resisting the Stamp Act, Americans affirmed their
35) ______
A) general mistrust of power.
B) particular right to freedom of religion.
C) belief in virtual representation.
D) belief in taxation by the Crown.
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36) The radicals of the English “Opposition” believed that
36) ______
A) humans were driven by money rather than by principle.
B) one person or even a few people could not be entrusted with governing.
C) Parliament needed to be controlled by the monarchs and their ministers, because
politicians could not be trusted.
D) history shows that power yields to liberty.
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37) After 1768, the presence of freedom fighters in many European countries had which of
the following effects upon resistance groups in America?
37) ______
A) American resistance groups felt increasingly isolated.
B) American resistance groups increasingly thought of themselves as part of a network of
the friends of liberty.
C) American resistance groups increasingly backed down to British pressure.
D) None of these answers are correct.
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38) The Sons of Liberty, emerging in the Stamp Act protest, drew their members from the
ranks of
38) ______
A) the elite members of the assemblies.
B) traders, lawyers, and prosperous artisans.
C) the poorer sort in the seaport towns.
D) male descendants of veterans of the Seven Years’ War, regardless of social class.
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39) In the Declaratory Act, Parliament
39) ______
A) asserted its authority to levy direct taxes on the colonies.
B) relinquished its authority to levy direct taxes on the colonies.
C) limited its authority in America to the regulation of trade.
D) left unclear the extent of its authority in America.
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40) What was new in American resistance to the Townshend duties?
40) ______
A) nonimportation of British goods
B) institutionalized mechanisms for enforcing nonimportation
C) an intercolonial congress
D) a formal statement of American constitutional arguments
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41) Parliament repealed all of the Townshend duties except the tax on tea because
41) ______
A) it was a source of revenue and symbol of Parliament’s authority.
B) American producers of raw materials suffered from lower prices on the world market.
C) of rioting in America that prevented collection of the duties.
D) Parliament decided temporarily to yield to American views.
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42) The Tea Act of 1773
42) ______
A) raised the price of tea that Americans imported from Britain.
B) gave the East India company a monopoly on the American tea trade.
C) prohibited the consumption of tea in Massachusetts.
D) cracked down on illegal smuggling of tea in the colonies.
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43) Which of the following British leaders actually supported the colonists’ objections to
taxation by Parliament?
43) ______
A) William Pitt
B) Lord North
C) John Dickinson
D) Thomas Gordon
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44) The sloop Liberty, whose seizure prompted several thousand angry Bostonians to rough
up customs officials and a night of violent rioting, was owned by which wealthy Boston
merchant?
44) ______
A) Samuel Adams
B) John Dickinson
C) John Hancock
D) Paul Revere
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45) When they learned of the Coercive Acts of 1774, many Americans concluded that a plot
to enslave the colonies was being implemented by
45) ______
A) the king’s ministers, but not Parliament or George III.
B) Parliament, but not the king’s ministers or George III.
C) George III, but not the king’s ministers or Parliament.
D) the king’s ministers and Parliament, but not George III.
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46) Many colonials believed that the ________ was/were proof of a plot to enslave the
colonies.
46) ______
A) Redcoats
B) Sugar Act
C) Boston Massacre
D) Coercive Acts
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47) The First Continental Congress, in late 1774,
47) ______
A) renounced American allegiance to George III, and established a Continental Army.
B) denied Parliament’s right to tax and legislate for the colonies, and set up a trade
boycott.
C) denied that Parliament had any authority at all in America, but took a collective oath
of allegiance reaffirming loyalty to George III.
D) denied that Parliament or George III had any authority in America, and urged colonial
legislatures to seize power from crown officials.
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48) Which of the following is NOT an example of how the colonies were beginning to seize
authority a year before the Declaration of Independence, during early 1775?
48) ______
A) The Association functioned effectively.
B) Some citizens took the court system into their own hands.
C) Provincial congresses were emerging as virtual revolutionary governments.
D) Many colonial leaders increasingly issued explicit calls for full independence.
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49) Thomas Paine presented many arguments in Common Sense. Which of the following was
NOT among them?
49) ______
A) Parliament had deliberately brought about all of America’s misfortunes.
B) The American colonials were a distinct people.
C) Monarchy was a foolish and dangerous form of government.
D) Nature had destined America for independence.
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50) By the end of 1769 the Townshend duties
50) ______
A) had been so successful that they were continued for several more years.
B) were successful in raising revenue but were politically unpopular in Parliament.
C) had no effect on either the colonists or the British.
D) resulted in an increase in colonial manufacturing.
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51) Which of the following events was the immediate catalyst for the first battle of the
American Revolution?
51) ______
A) British troops’ attempts to seize arms that were stored in Concord, Massachusetts
B) Pontiac’s rebellion and the passage of the Proclamation of 1763
C) the signing of a declaration of war by the First Continental Congress
D) the publishing of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
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52) Which of the following explains why the monarchy began encouraging North American
colonists to settle in Florida in the 1760s?
52) ______
A) Pontiac’s War
B) the Stamp Act
C) the development of more moisture- and heat-resistant rice crops
D) the invention of the mechanical ceiling fan
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53) Why did British soldiers occasionally march out of their backcountry forts and burn
ramshackle cabins?
53) ______
A) to dissuade settlement west of the Proclamation Line
B) to provoke conflict with nearby Native American tribes
C) to get court-martialed and sent to England for punishment
D) to claim the lands for themselves and begin settling and farming there
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54) Why did colonial elites like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin
Franklin object to settlers west of the Proclamation Line?
54) ______
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A) They feared unnecessary strife with the monarchy.
B) They worried about Native American reprisals.
C) They envisioned a tightly organized and urbanized coastal America rather than a
sprawling rural one.
D) They wanted to buy up these western lands for themselves at wholesale prices in order
to parcel and sell them at a profit.
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55) Who primarily benefitted from indigenous violence against squatters settling west of the
Proclamation Line?
55) ______
A) the Crown
B) the settlers
C) indigenous tribes
D) land speculators
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Answer Key
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