Imperial Reform
The Proclamation of 1763 set up which mountain range as the 'westward boundary' of British America?
Appalachian Mountains
Which Founding Father was the first to lead the charge against the 1765 Stamp Act?
A) Patrick Henry
B) Alexander Hamilton
C) Samuel Adams
A) Patrick Henry
Which of these WAS NOT taxed by the 1767 Townshend Act?
Lead, paper, glass, muskets, tea
Muskets
The Tea Crisis really sprung from Lord North trying to prop up/save the British ______ India Tea Company.
A) East
B) West
East
True/False: In April 1775, neither side had a plan for winning a major war.
True
George Grenville wanted to leave how many battalions in the colonies for defense purposes after the F/I War?
A) 10
B) 20
C) 50
B) 20 (about 7,000 soldiers)
How many colonies participated in the Stamp Act Congress?
A) 5
B) 7
C) 9
C) 9
True/False: A full colonial boycott of all British goods, in the name of resistance to the Townshend Acts, stood to hurt the colonial economy more than the British one.
True
How many chests of tea were dumped in the Boston Harbor at the infamous Boston Tea Party?
A) 281
B) 342
C) 582
B) 342
Which member of the 2nd Continental Congress nominated George Washington to be the leader of the Continental Army?
A) Patrick Henry
B) John Adams
C) Ben Franklin
B) John Adams
What was General Amherst's response to the success of Pontiac's Rebellion in the west?
A) Trade more liquor with them to lessen their awareness...then strike
B) Declare war against them
C) Purposefully infect them with smallpox
C) Smallpox infestation
A synonym for "nonimportation agreements" would be _________.
Boycotts
"The statute’s preamble stated his real goal: to use the new American revenues to pay the salaries of governors and ______ in the colonies, thereby freeing them from dependence on the assemblies."
A) Sherrifs
B) Judges
C) Tax Collectors
B) Judges
Which of these punishments did not come with the 1774 Coercive Acts?
Closing Boston's port, Arrest of Samuel Adams, a new Quartering law, Town meetings restricted
Arrest of Samuel Adams
At the end of 1775, what happened to almost all of Washington's troops?
A) Died in a battle
B) Signed up for another year of service
C) Deserted and went home
C) Deserted and went home
Which group's hostility towards natives after 1763 led to "an open season on Indians that continued for years"?
A) Princeton Boys
B) Paxton Boys
C) Parish Boys
B) Paxton Boys
Who was the leader of the riot to destroy Lt. Governor Thomas Hutchinson's home in response to the Stamp Act?
A) Samuel Adams
B) Ebenezer McIntosh
C) John Prine
B) Ebenezer McIntosh
Which colony led the pace of resistance with their "Circular Letter" calling for mass-nonimportation and unified resistance?
Massachusetts
The Quebec Act, a seemingly unrelated portion of the Coercive Acts, made the colonists afraid of a rising ________ threat to their North.
Catholic (or French)
What was the name of the peace document the 2nd Continental Congress sent KG3 in 1775 affirming colonial loyalty and asking for reconciliation?
O.B.P.
Olive Branch Petition
The reason molasses was so important to the colonists, which led to their resentment of the 1764 Sugar Act, was _______.
Rum
Which colonial town had a "Liberty Tree" where effigies of British officials would be hanged in protest of various acts/policies?
Boston
Townshend was eager for confrontation with the colonists, so he placed the American Board of Customs Commissioners in ________, instead of Philadelphia, because it had been a more vocally opposed to recent British actions.
Boston
Association
Dunmore's Proclamation (last name of the Governor of Virginia) in 1775 pushed southern colonies towards independence. Why?
He offered freedom to slaves who joined the British army