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How did the rise of the assemblies in the 1700s affect colonial political culture?
What is Colonial legal practices more closely resembled those of England.
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Why did colonists oppose the Stamp Act? A) It would hinder the highly profitable colonial trade with the West Indies. B)It was an indirect "hidden" tax. C)Its revenues were to be used to pay off England's own national debt. D)They did not think Parliament had the authority to impose revenue taxes on the colonists since they had no representation in that governing body.
They did not think Parliament had the authority to impose revenue taxes on the colonists since they had no representation in that governing body.
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What two events bookend the Imperial Crisis of the British Empire
What are the Seven Years War and the Declaration of Independence
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All of these were agruments in Thomas Paine's Common Sense EXCEPT A.)the colonies could only remain part of the British Empire if the status quo ante bellum was regained. B.)the colonies were destined for a special mission in the world. C.)the colonies were unique and therefore should not be subject to English law. D.)fighting had already begun, changing the political situation.
A.)the colonies could only remain part of the British Empire if the status quo ante bellum was regained
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The Second Continental Congress was decidedly in favor of declaring independence because A.)effective propaganda had swayed the opinion of most of the delegates. B.)declaring independence would allow them to send envoys to seek foreign aid. C.)combat with British regulars had already commenced. D.)all of the above
D.All of the above
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____________________established the first permanent trail over the Appalachian Mountains into the Ohio Valley.
What is Braddock's March
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Which of the following was one of the ways in which John Locke's Two Treatises of Government (1680) seemed to give a theoretical basis to what was American political practice? A.)He stated emphatically that there should be no taxation without representation. B.)He wrote with great detail and clarity about the role of women in civil society. C.)He stated that all people possessed natural and inalienable rights. D.)He wrote eloquently about the evils of parliamentary sovereignty.
He stated that all people possessed natural and inalienable rights.
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All of the following are aspects of the Imperial Crisis of the British Empire EXCEPT A.)crushing British debt as a result of the Seven Years War. B.)administration of significantly more colonial territory. C.)Parliament asserting authority over the royal house and the king. D.)the establishment of permanent troops stationed in the colonies
What is administration of significantly more colonial territory.
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The Revolutionary War was essentially over with the surrender of British troops at
What is Yorktown.
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__________, Virginia's primary cash crop, tended to deplete the soil of nitrogen leading to English expansion westward and eventual conflict with the French in the Ohio Valley.
What is Tobacco
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Samuel Adams and Paul Revere were well know members of
What is the Sons of Liberty.
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Which of the following elements helped to weaken Britain's logistical advantages over the Americans? A.)America's population, which was about four times that of Britain's B.)the depth of the Americans' commitment to a political ideology C.)Washington's decision to build a guerrilla army D.)the fact that most American officers were battlefield veterans
What is the depth of the Americans' commitment to a political ideology
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General Gage dispatched 1000 troops toward Concord because
What is he wanted to capture arms being stockpiled by the colonists in the town.
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The primary objective of the American revolutionaries was
What is not to lose the war. break the British's will to fight. to maintain an army in the field
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The majority of the men Washington commanded inside of Fort Necessity were
What is militiamen
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Caused the breakdown of political trust between the American colonist and the British rulers in the latter half of the eighteenth century, eventually culminating in the American Revolution A.)The standard of living of white Americans was falling drastically. B.)King George III allowed the Whigs in Parliament to run the nation and its colonies. C.)The British Parliament insisted on the supremacy of Parliament. D.)Provincial assemblies in America started expanding their authority over taxation.
The British Parliament insisted on the supremacy of Parliament.
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The soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre were successfully defended by ____________
What is John Adams.
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Though often attributed to Paul Revere, the only rider to get all the way to Concord to warn the colonist was
What is Samuel Prescott
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France was finally convinced to enter the war on the colonists' side by
What is the colonial victory at Saratoga.
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______________ was a plan conceived by Benjamin Franklin to enhance colonial union?
What is the Albany Plan
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All of the following were factors contributing to Localism in Colonial America EXCEPT A.)the fact that colonies were begun at different times and for different reasons. B.)the English did not do very much to encourage the colonies to cooperate, to act as one. C.)common language. D.)religious differences.
What is common language.
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________________was the restructuring of an existing tax that reduced the taxation on molasses but more strictly enforced the tax
What is The Revenue Act of 1764
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In order to save limited ammunition, commanders at Breed's Hill ordered their men to not fire on the British until
What is under fifty yards of the colonial defenses
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Why Gage had dispatched a force to Concord
What is because he had heard the colonists were amassing weapons in the town