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chapter 5 nolan
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in 1763 radical whigs launched a campaign to reform parliament by abolishing tiny districts that were controlled by welathy aristocrats and merchants. these distrcits were known as : | rotten boroughs |
among british political leaders, the only one who openly supported a proposal made by benjamin franklin for american representatino in parliament was : | william |
The major transformation of the British empire following the Great War for Empire can best be characterized as : | a centralization of the empire in the hands of imperial officials. |
american merchants resented the Sugar Act, even though it reduced the tariff on French molasses, because | merchants smuggled French molasses and had never paid the duty. |
Why did the Radical Whigs criticize the reorganization of the empire ? | they claimed that a large, expensive government placed the nation at the mercy of banks and financiers |
pittIn 1765, delegates from nine American colonies gatherd to protest British taxes on the colonies in a meeting called the : | stamp act congress. |
every November 5th, the british celebrate guy fawkes day to commemorate the : | failure of catholic rebels to overthrow the british government in 1605. |
in an effort to criticize the crown as part of their resistance to the stamp act, one colonist tried to revive antimonarchial sentiment associated with the puritan revolution in england by sending a protest letter to a boston newspaper under the name of : | oliver cromwelll |
the stamp act was repealed in 1766 for all of the following reasons except | european conflicts sparked an economic boom, negating the need for great britian to raise tax revenues in the colonies. |
colonials opponents of the stamp act drew which of the following political traditions from the radical whig tradition in english politics ? | an abiding denunciation of political corruption. |
the one major colonial city that refused to join in on the boycott of british goods after passage of the townshend duties was : | philadelphia. |
why was the restraining act so threatening to colonists ? | it declared american government institutions to be completely dependent on the will of parliment. |
. how did the boycott movement following the townshend act change the political culture of America ? | united thousands of Americans in a common political movement. |
The British responded to American challenges to their taxation efforts more harshly in 1768 than they did only two years before for all of the following reasons except : | colonial mobs called openly for independence . |
Benjamin Franklin's idea for recognizing the British empire following Lord North's compromise involved : | colonial independence from Parliamentary contol while remaining loyal to the king. |
When colonists objected to taxation without representation,debate developed over nature of representation & the question of whether Americans were or should be represented in Parliament. By 1775, the colonists had resolved the question by asserting that : | colonial representation in Parliament was impractial,given colonies distance from Britian &distinct local interests,& so colonial assemblies alone should have power to tax colonies,thereby denouncing Parliaments claim to supremacy over colonial assemblies |
The one regino of colonial America that held out for a political compromise with great britian after the enactment of the coercive acts was : | the middle colonies. |
The onset of war between Great Britian and the mainland colonies began with a skirmish between British troops and American colonials at : | lexington |
General Gage marched into the countryside around Boston on April 18, 1775, in order to: | capture colonial leaders and seize supplies in Concord. |
Colonists were alarmed by the Quebec act because it : | extended the boundaries of Quebec into the Ohio River Valley, thereby restricting land expansion by coastal colonies and sections of Virginia, and gave legal recognition to Roman Catholicism. |
The Great War for Empire : | led to a fundamental change in the relationship between Britian and its American colonies. |
The British ministry shrewdly drafted the Sugar Act of 1764 with the intention of : | allowing colonial trade with the west indies and imposing a lower but more strictly enforced duty on french molasses. |
All of the following were motvies for a larger British miliatary presence in the American colonies after 1763 except : | removing Native Americans from land west of the Appalachian Mountains. |
What was the primary American complaint against being tried in vice-admiralty courts ? | Trial before the courts robbed Americans of their rights to be tried before a local common-law court. |
What constitutional principle was Grenville asserting with the Stamp Act ? | Parliament could bypass colonial assemblies and impose an internal tax on the colonies. |
Stamp Act Congress met in order to : | humbly petition the king for repeal of the Stamp Act. |
Urban mobs and organized groups like the sons of Liberty were primarily made up of : | small merchants, artisans, shopkeepers, and some farmers as well as some apprentices, workers, day laborers, and sailors who wanted to participate in politics. |
Educated colonists drew on three intellectual traditions to justify their opposition to British policies. These included all of the following except : | accommidationism. |
The purpose of the Declaratory Act of 1766 was to: | affirm Parliament's power over the colonies. |
. Evangelical Protestants stirred by the religios passions of the Great Awakening joined mobs opposing the Stamp act becase they: | resented the arrogance of British military officers and the corruption of royal bureaucrats. |
The primary purpose of the Townshend Act of 1767 was to : | free royal officials from financial dependence on the American legislatures. |
in letters from a farmer in pennslyvania (1768), john dickinson argued that : | Parliament could not tax the colonies without their consent in order to raise revenue. |
How did the boycott movement affect womens lives ? | they acquired a celebrated public role for increasing domestic production of homespun cloth |
Which of the following was not a reason the british sought compromise in the late 1760's? | Benjamin Franklin proposed a looser form of empire. |
What did the compromise over the Townshend duties demonstrate about the relationship between Parliament and the colonies? | some americans would have to be subdued by force if parliament continued to exercise sovereignity |
the coercive acts included all of the following except : | A. the new tea tax that raised the tariff on tea |
. the only mainland british colony not represented at the first continental congress was : | georgia. |
loyalists had a strong following among all of the following groups except : | quakers and germans in pennsylvania |
. although the tea act made british tea less expensive, colonists objected to the act because they : | A. oppsed the remaining duty on imported tea. |
20. if the coercive acts were not repeals, the continental congress threatened : | C. economic retaliation of ninimportation and nonconsumption of british goods. |