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The Seven Years' War pitted Britain against France in a struggle to control what region of North America? |
| | A) | Louisiana |
| | B) | Lower Canada |
| | C) | Ohio country |
| | D) | Northwest Territories |
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The Treaty of Paris (1763) gave Britain title to |
| | A) | all French claims west of the Mississippi, and Spanish Florida. |
| | B) | all French claims east of the Mississippi, and Spanish Florida. |
| | C) | all French claims east of the Mississippi, New Orleans, and the French sugar islands of the West Indies. |
| | D) | all French claims in North America. |
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Regarding consequences of the Seven Years' War that led to the rift between the colonies and England, all the following are correctly stated EXCEPT that |
| | A) | the French and Indian threats were removed, so the British government felt they had no need to keep troops in the colonies. |
| | B) | the British government was deeply in debt. |
| | C) | British imperial officials were determined to centralize and extend British rule over the colonies in their greatly expanded empire. |
| | D) | both the Americans and the British came out of the war with very different expectations about the future of their relationship. |
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After the Seven Years' War, Britain kept several thousand troops in the colonies for all of the following reasons EXCEPT |
| | A) | to enforce the Proclamation of 1763 by providing protection to colonials settling west of the Appalachians. |
| | B) | to prevent France from trying to regain its lost territory. |
| | C) | to manage the new and uneasy relations with the Indians, as in the case of Pontiac's Rebellion. |
| | D) | to encourage American acceptance of Grenville's new measures. |
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Grenville believed his taxation demands were reasonable for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that |
| | A) | Britain's national debt had doubled between 1754 and 1764. |
| | B) | the colonial customs service was paying out four times the amount in salaries than they were receiving in revenue. |
| | C) | the English had been paying a tax similar to the one created by the Stamp Act for nearly a century. |
| | D) | an earlier tax on molasses had succeeded in forcing the colonists to stop buying molasses from the French and the Dutch. |
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Americans insisted that they be taxed by their own assemblies, because they held to the dictum of John Locke, |
| | A) | that government governs best which governs least. |
| | B) | that all men are created equal. |
| | C) | that property guarantees liberty. |
| | D) | no taxation without representation. |
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The Sons of Liberty |
| | A) | consisted mostly of poor artisans, apprentices and dockworkers. |
| | B) | supported the destruction of the home of Thomas Hutchinson, the unpopular lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. |
| | C) | successfully convinced most of the stamp distributors to resign. |
| | D) | All these answers are correct. |
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In resisting the Stamp Act, Americans affirmed all of the following EXCEPT |
| | A) | their general mistrust of power. |
| | B) | their particular right to trial by jury. |
| | C) | their belief in virtual representation. |
| | D) | their belief in taxation only by their elected representatives. |
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Which of the following British leaders actually supported the colonists' objections to taxation by Parliament? |
| | A) | William Pitt |
| | B) | Lord North |
| | C) | John Dickinson |
| | D) | Thomas Gordon |
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Parliament repealed all of the Townshend duties except the tax on tea, because |
| | A) | British businesses suffered from reduced American consumption of British imports. |
| | B) | American producers of raw materials suffered from lower prices on the world market. |
| | C) | of rioting in America, which prevented collection of the duties. |
| | D) | Parliament decided temporarily to yield to American views. |
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Townshend was determined to curb the power of the American assemblies. To set a bold example, he singled out for punishment the New York legislature, which refused to comply with the |
| | A) | Townshend Acts. |
| | B) | Quartering Act. |
| | C) | Stamp Act. |
| | D) | Sugar Act. |
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The Tea Act |
| | A) | significantly raised the price of tea in the colonies. |
| | B) | was passed in response to the Boston Tea Party. |
| | C) | gave the East India Company a monopoly on supplying tea to the colonies. |
| | D) | led to the passage of a bill requiring any colonist accused of a crime against the British Crown to be tried in England rather than in the colonies. |
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The First Continental Congress in late 1774 |
| | A) | renounced American allegiance to George III, and established a Continental Army. |
| | B) | denied Parliament's right to tax and legislate for the colonies (while acknowledging its authority to regulate their trade), 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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Colonial southern conservatives feared that the removal of the British government would cause |
| | A) | an attempt by the French to regain the land it had lost in the Seven Years' War. |
| | B) | an uprising by the slave population. |
| | C) | disputes over land claims, sectional tensions, and religious differences. |
| | D) | an attack on the colonies by a united Indian population. |
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In Common Sense, Thomas Paine argues all the following EXCEPT that |
| | A) | Parliament had deliberately and wickedly brought about all of America's misfortunes. |
| | B) | Britain displayed no parental affection toward the colonies, and instead preyed upon their wealth and liberties. |
| | C) | monarchy was a foolish and dangerous form of government. |
| | D) | nature had destined America for independence. |
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