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Front 1

The two southern colonies that did not enroll free blacks and slaves to fight were:

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South Carolina and Georgia

Front 2

Who was not a member of the American delegation that negotiated the Treaty of Paris?
Answer

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Samuel Adams

Front 3

Who won the Revolutionary War?

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Americans

Front 4

Which of the following did the Stamp Act affect?

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newspapers

Front 5

Who was appointed the military commander of the army during the Second Continental Congress?

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George Washington

Front 6

Which of the founding fathers argued that Parliament had no right to authorize the Writs of Assistance to combat smuggling?

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James Otis

Front 7

Who was considered "the first martyr" of the American Revolution?

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Crispus Attucks

Front 8

Who engraved the image of the Boston Massacre which became one of the most influential pieces of political propaganda of the Revolutionary Era?

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Paul Revere

Front 9

In September 1780, the able American commander ____________ turned traitor to the American cause and almost turned West Point over to the British.

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Benedict Arnold

Front 10

The tactics of American resistance to British colonial policy from the mid-1760s through the mid-1770s included:

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all of the above

Front 11

Which was not part of the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770?

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It witnessed tea thrown into Boston Harbor and an Indian massacre.

Front 12

The final decisive victory in the War for Independence was:

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Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown.

Front 13

What did the Sugar Act of 1764 that so vexed the colonists do to the already existing tax on molasses imported from the French West Indies?

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it decreased it.

Front 14

The Daughters of Liberty were:

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women who spun and wove cloth during the 1768 Townshend Duties boycott.

Front 15

Which of the following was not a source of misgivings in the colonies over the prospect of a complete break with Britain?

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fear that England's withdrawal from North America would leave the former colonies open to frontier conflict with the Spanish

Front 16

Committees of Correspondence in the colonies during the 1760s:

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were a group of colonial elites who exchanged ideas and information about resistance to the Sugar, Currency, and Stamp Acts.

Front 17

Thomas Paine's January 1776 pamphlet Common Sense argued all of the following EXCEPT:

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It was common sense that in the struggle for independence the slaves to whom Lord Dunmore offered freedom ought to be freed.

Front 18

What two European powers allied with the Americans in the War for Independence?

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France and Spain

Front 19

What did the 1766 Declaratory Act declare?

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that Parliament had the power to pass laws for the colonies "in all cases whatever"

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The British imposed a direct tax (also called an "internal tax") for the first time on colonists with the:

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Stamp Act.

Front 21

The First Continental Congress met for:

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two months

Front 22

Which was not part of the Boston Tea Party?

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John Adams was sent to prison on December 17, 1773.

Front 23

Which of the following does not help explain the electrifying impact of Thomas Paine's Common Sense?

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an insistence that America stood ready to supplant Britain as the world's supreme imperial power

Front 24

During the 1760s, backcountry protesters in the Carolinas were known as:

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Regulators.

Front 25

Sons of Liberty (1765) were said to oppose "every limitation of trade and duty on it." In this context define "duty":

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tax

Front 26

Which of the following was not a British law forbidding colonial manufacture?

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the Molasses Act of 1733

Front 27

Which of the following was not a feature of the 1774 Intolerable Acts?

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the repression of Catholicism in the colonies

Front 28

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

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Boston Tea Party; Olive Branch Petition; publication of Common Sense; Declaration of Independence

Front 29

The idea that the United States has a special mission to serve as a symbol of freedom, a refuge from tyranny, and a model for the world is called by historians:

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American exceptionalism.

Front 30

Following the Boston Tea Party, Parliament imposed restrictions on Massachusetts that included closing the port of Boston, curtailing town meetings, and allowing soldiers to be lodged in people's houses. These restrictions were called:

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Coercive or Intolerable Acts.

Front 31

When colonists insisted that because they were not represented in Parliament they could not be taxed by the British government, the British replied that they were represented by:

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Virtual representation.

Front 32

The Carolina "Regulators" of the mid-1760s were

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a group of wealthy residents of the backcountry who protested the lack of courts and lack of representation in the colonial governance.

Front 33

Which of the following was not a part of the balance of power between the British and American forces during the Revolution?

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The British public was ambivalent over a war to retain the colonies; the American public was united behind a war for independence.

Front 34

Which was not a consequence of the 1765 Stamp Act?

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Postal service was restricted to only those willing to obey the law.

Front 35

British success in the Seven Years'War contributed to the making of the American Revolution because:

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he British raised taxes to pay for the debt it incurred during the war.

Front 36

The Declaration of Independence:

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declared the United States independent of British rule.

Front 37

On October 17, 1777, the Americans scored an important victory against British forces at:

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Saratoga.

Front 38

Which of the following was not a feature of the Stamp Act crisis of 1765?

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The Stamp Act was passed by the Stamp Act Congress as a way to subvert the power of Parliament to tax the colonies.