Chapter 7 Quiz | APUSHfive

1. The republican and Whig ideologies that English colonists embraced by the mid-eighteenth century included all of the following tenets EXCEPT

a. power should be centralized within the monarchy.
b. citizens should put the public good ahead of their self-interests.
c. a functioning society is based on the virtue of its citizenry.
d. self-sufficiency, courage, and civic involvement are crucial for republican societies.
e. hierarchical governments breed corruption.

2. Which of the following circumstances did NOT influence Americans' attitudes about rights and the nature of government by the 1750s?

a. The aristocracy that was common in Britain never took hold in the colonies.
b. Property ownership and political participation were more easily accessible in the colonies.
c. Colonists had become accustomed to running things themselves, with little interference from the crown.
d. They universally embraced religious toleration.
e. The vast ocean expanse that distanced Britain from the colonies also weakened Britain's ability to exert its authority.

3. Britain's relationship with its colonies was based on mercantilism, the theory that

a. wealth is power, and colonies could be used to enrich the mother country.
b. colonies should develop independent trade so as not to financially burden the mother country.
c. commerce should be allowed to develop, uninhibited by government interference.
d. Britain had the right to tax and regulate the colonies as it saw fit.
e. the colonies should become economically self-sufficient within twenty-five years of settlement.

4. The colonists detested the mercantilist system for all of these reasons EXCEPT

a. it kept them in a state of economic dependency.
b. it caused a currency surplus.
c. Britain nullified any laws passed by colonial governments that interfered with the mercantilist system.
d. it restricted how American goods could be transported or sold.
e. it required the colonies to buy certain goods only from Britain.

5. In what ways did mercantilism benefit the colonists?

a. Britain provided subsidies for surplus crops.
b. Mercantilism helped several colonial merchants become wealthy.
c. It elevated some colonists to positions of political power.
d. It stimulated American wool manufacturing.
e. Britain granted them certain trade monopolies and protected them militarily.

6. To raise money to cover debts incurred in the Seven Years' War and to reassert its authority over its North American colonies, Britain passed all of the following measures EXCEPT the

a. Navigation Acts.
b. Sugar Act.
c. Intolerable Act.
d. Quartering Act.
e. Stamp Act.

7. Americans responded to Britain's many new taxes in the 1760s with the line, "No taxation without representation." What did this mean exactly?

a. That Americans wanted to have representatives in Parliament before they would accept tax legislation passed there.
b. That only colonial legislatures could tax the colonies.
c. That the colonists would accept virtual representation in fiscal matters.
d. That Parliament put the needs of citizens in England above those of its colonists.
e. That the king was the ultimate representative, and therefore exclusively held the power to tax.

8. Which of these protests against the Stamp Act was most effective in ultimately securing its repeal?

a. The Stamp Act Congress of 1765.
b. Petitions to Parliament.
c. Nonimportation agreements.
d. Violent protests.
e. Refusal to pay tax.

9. British colonists were outraged by the Townshend Act for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

a. it sought to skirt the issue of taxation by imposing "duties" instead.
b. it taxed many of their favorite imported goods.
c. monies collected under the act would pay the salaries of royal officials.
d. it included a provision to close any colonial port that did not pay the duties.
e. it was yet another example of taxation without representation.

10. The Boston Massacre, which occurred on March 5, 1770, describes

a. a protest in which colonists burned Governor Thomas Hutchinson's house to the ground.
b. a standoff between colonists and redcoats that resulted in the deaths of eleven Bostonians.
c. a mob protest in which two dozen British soldiers were killed.
d. the first military battle between the Sons of Liberty and the British.
e. the dumping of 342 chests of imported tea and other goods into Boston harbor.

11. What was the most significant role of the committees of correspondence?

a. Writing broadsides.
b. Encouraging women's participation in boycotts and rebellions.
c. Building momentum for a complete break with Britain.
d. Seeking every colony's participation in the first American Congress.
e. Organizing local letter-writing campaigns to fortify colonial resistance to British policies.

12. Why did tea become the focus of protests against British policies that ended with the Boston Tea Party in 1773?

a. The price of tea had skyrocketed under the British East India Company's trade monopoly.
b. Colonists resented England's attempt to force only one tea source on them.
c. Tea touched the lives of colonists from every social class.
d. Tea was England's leading export.
e. Colonists could easily go without tea.

13. The First Continental Congress met in 1774 principally to

a. strategize ways to redress colonial grievances.
b. declare the colonies' independence from Britain.
c. outline a new national government for the future United States.
d. organize a colonial army.
e. enlist the support of other countries in its conflict with Britain.

14. Both Britain and Spain pressured their colonies with new taxes to help pay their share of the Seven Years' War; but reaction to these policies led to a war for independence only among British colonists for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

a. Britain had rich and powerful enemies that colonists could tap for assistance.
b. Spanish colonies were far more ethnically and racially divided.
c. British settlers were accustomed to more liberal local governments than those in Spain and its colonies.
d. rights were a central component of British vs. Spanish notions of citizenship.
e. British colonists had established local militias from the earliest days of settlement.

15. Which of the following lists is chronologically accurate?

a. Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, Townshend Acts
b. Sugar Act, Boston Massacre, The Association, Intolerable Acts
c. Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party, Lexington and Concord, First Continental Congress
d. Sugar Act, Townshend Acts, Boston Tea Party, Continental Congress
e. Declaratory Act, Quebec Act, Boston Massacre, Quartering Act

16. At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, British victory seemed certain because

a. the British were more familiar with the terrain on which the fighting occurred.
b. Britain boasted a professional army of fifty thousand men.
c. the British cause was morally justified.
d. the Whigs and Tories were united in their goals for the American colonies.
e. Britain had the support of other European nations.

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