Chapter 5: Humanities Review

1. The attack by Massachusetts colonists on the home of lieutenant governor and chief justice Thomas Hutchinson:

2. After what major event did the British government make the colonies bear part of the cost of the empire?

3. Virtual representation was the idea:

4. The Sugar Act alarmed colonists, in part because it:

5. The Stamp Act created such a stir in the colonies because:

6. What contribution did the Stamp Act episode make to the colonists' concept of liberty?

7. What was the key political origin of the American Revolution?

8. In regards to the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, which statement was true?

9. What impact did the Committees of Correspondence have in America?

10. The Sons of Liberty:

11. The Declaratory Act:

12. What political movement of the seventeenth century resembled the 1760s Regulator movement in South Carolina?

13. What idea did both the Regulators and Stamp Act Congress share?

14. Which armed group, motivated by deep frustrations with the corruption of North Carolina's county officials, was defeated by the colony's militia at the 1771 Battle of Alamance?

15. Unlike the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts focused on:

16. The "Daughters of Liberty" was the name given to:

17. The Boston Massacre occurred when British soldiers:

18. Crispus Attucks:

19. The expulsion of the journalist John Wilkes from his seat in Parliament:

20. The treatment of John Wilkes resembled which act of Parliament against the colonies?

21. Why did colonists object to the Tea Act?

22. Which of the following was associated with the Intolerable Acts?

23. What prevents a law like the Intolerable Acts from occurring in the United States today?

24. The Quebec Act:

25. What were the Suffolk Resolves?

26. At the first Continental Congress, who declared, "I am not a Virginian, but an American"?

27. The Committees of Safety:

28. In the years immediately before the American Revolution, the concept of natural rights:

29. Which of the following was a significant battle during the first year of the Revolutionary War?

30. When the Second Continental Congress created an official army, how did the British respond?

31. What did Lord Dunmore do that outraged many southerners?

32. Who warned that independence would lead to disunity in the colonies?

33. Thomas Paine's Common Sense:

34. What made Thomas Paine's Common Sense a unique document?

35. Who wrote the following: "One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is that nature disapproves it, otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule, by giving mankind an ass for a lion"?

36. In what ways was Thomas Paine's Common Sense similar to Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence?

37. Who was Samuel Seabury?

38. In his document "An Alarm to the Legislature of the Province in New-York," the minister Samuel Seabury equated freedom with:

39. Most of the text of the Declaration of Independence:

40. Why did Jefferson address the Declaration of Independence to the "opinions of mankind"?

41. In today's world, more than ________________of the countries have issued declarations of independence.

42. What was one important legacy of the Declaration of Independence?

43. In the same year the Declaration of Independence was signed,:

44. Ultimately, what led to the colonies' victory in the American Revolution?

45. What ultimately led to the Americans using black recruits in the Continental army?

46. During the eight years of war, approximately how many Americans bore arms in the Continental army and state militias?

47. The main point of The American Crisis is:

48. In the winter of 1776-1777, Washington won important victories that improved American morale. These battles were at:

49. A key consequence of the Battle of Saratoga in October 1777 was:

50. In 1778, the focus of the war shifted:

1. Prior to the Seven Years' War, Britain had not tried to regulate the colonies' economy.

2. Although a few were outraged by the Stamp Act, most politically active colonists actually supported it.

3. American colonists widely believed that Britain had no authority to tax the colonists since the colonists had no elected representative in Parliament.

4. The Sons of Liberty enforced a boycott of British goods.

5. Both North Carolina and South Carolina had Regulator movements.

6. Homespun clothing became a symbol of American resistance during the American boycott on British goods.

7. Paul Revere created an engraving that distorted the Boston Massacre.

8. John Wilkes was expelled from his seat in Parliament for his scandalous writings about the king; this caused many colonists to rally to his side with the call "Wilkes and Liberty."

9. To resist the Intolerable Acts, a Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia.

10. Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense as a response to Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.