US HISTORY CHAP 5

Thomas Hutchinson

Thomas Paine

George Washington

Charles Townshend

Crispus Attucks

Thomas Jefferson

Lord Dunmore

Sir William Howe

Patrick Henry

Benedict Arnold

Ethan Allen

John Dickinson

Stamp Act

Sons of Liberty

Common Sense

Committee of Correspondence

Quebec Act

virtual representation independence

Regulators

East India Company

Saratoga

Loyalists

homespun virtue

Ethiopian regiment residents

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

2. Which major event first led the British government to seek ways to make the colonies bear part of the cost of the empire?

3. All of the following were attempts to regulate colonial trade before the Seven Years' War EXCEPT for the:

4. Virtual representation was the idea:

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

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

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

8. The Sons of Liberty:

9. The Declaratory Act:

10. Violent social turmoil in rural areas during the 1760s:

11. Which one of the following did NOT specifically provide for direct or indirect taxes on the colonies?

12. 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?

13. Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys:

14. The Townshend Acts did all of the following EXCEPT:

15. In Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, John Dickinson:

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. Why did colonists object to the Tea Act?

21. Britain responded to the Boston Tea Party with:

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

23. The Quebec Act:

24. What were the Suffolk Resolves?

25. The Committees of Safety:

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

27. Which of the following was NOT a significant battle during the first year of the Revolutionary War?

28. John Adams recommended George Washington as commander of the Continental army because:

29. What did Lord Dunmore do that horrified many southerners?

30. Who argued that "true liberty" could only be achieved by remaining in the British Empire?

31. The Olive Branch Petition:

32. Thomas Paine's Common Sense:

33. Which statement about Thomas Paine's Common Sense is FALSE?

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

35. In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson's biggest influence with regard to natural rights came from?

36. All of the following are true of the Declaration of Independence EXCEPT:

37. By the time of Thomas Jefferson's death in 1826 about __________ other declarations of independence had been issued in Europe and the Western Hemisphere.

38. All of the following were advantages enjoyed by the British during the American Revolution EXCEPT:

39. Which of the following is true of the soldiers who fought for American independence?

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

41. Which of the following statements regarding black soldiers during the American Revolution is FALSE?

42. The main point of The American Crisis is:

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

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

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

46. During the Revolutionary War, tensions between backcountry farmers and wealthy planters:

47. Cornwallis was defeated at Yorktown because:

48. Washington's defeat of Cornwallis at Yorktown:

49. The negotiation of the Treaty of Paris of 1783:

50. British possessions in the West Indies:

51. The Treaty of Paris did NOT:

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. American leaders viewed the British empire as an association of equals.

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

6. Ethan Allen led the Hudson Bay Boys in New York to protect the liberties of small farmers.

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

8. Samuel Adams defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre in a court of law.

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

10. 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."

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

12. The First Continental Congress raised an army and appointed George Washington as its commander.

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

14. Thomas Paine's Common Sense was written specifically for the educated elite.

15. The idea of American exceptionalism was prevalent in the Revolution.

16. Today, more than half of the countries in the world have some sort of declaration of independence.

17. British soldiers alienated many Americans, while citizen-soldiers displayed great valor.

18. Blacks who fought under George Washington did so in segregated units.

19. Siding with the British offered slaves far more opportunities for liberty than did siding with the pro-independence Americans.

20. Washington's army was demoralized by repeated failures early in the war, and many soldiers simply went home.

21. The American victory at Trenton convinced the French to join the American cause.

22. Benedict Arnold almost succeeded in turning over to the British the important Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain.

23. British commanders were never able to consolidate their hold on the South.

24. The French played a significant role in the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.

25. The Treaty of Paris was negotiated within six months after Cornwallis's surrender.

26. Americans did not gain much more than independence from the Treaty of Paris.

8. The Sons of Liberty: