Icc - American History - Chapter 4

Front 1

By the 1750's, colonial legislatures considered themselves to be what?

Back 1

Little Parliaments

Front 2

Colonial leaders gathered in Albany, New York in 1754 to discuss what proposal by Ben Franklin?

Back 2

To establish a general government for all of the colonies

Front 3

The French and English both knew that controlling the colonies in North America would depend on getting the support from whom.

Back 3

Native Americans

Front 4

What regions did England gain for victory in the Great War?

Back 4

they got Canada and Florida

Front 5

Which side did the Iroquois Confederacy side with before the Great War, England or France?

Back 5

Neither

Front 6

Was most of the fighting in the Great War done by colonial militia?

Back 6

NO

Front 7

Whom was the result of the Great War a disaster?

Back 7

The Iroquois Confederacy

Front 8

Why did the British decide to reorganize the administration of colonies after 1763?

Back 8

Because the Empire was twice as large as it had been

Front 9

What happen to taxes under Grenville's ministry?

Back 9

Colonial taxes increased 10 times

Front 10

What was the Regulator Movement of 1771?

Back 10

Carolina farmers protested a lack of representation and forcibly resisted paying the taxes

Front 11

What were the effects on the colonials concerning British policies after 1763?

Back 11

There was a deep sense of economic unease, mainly in the cities

Front 12

Colonists fought against the Stamp Acts because they felt only what group could tax them?

Back 12

Colonial Provincial Assemblies

Front 13

The British decided to repeal the Stamp Acts because of what reason?

Back 13

Economic pressure from the colonial boycotts

Front 14

The Mutiny Act (Quartering Act) of 1765 really upset colonists. What did it require?

Back 14

Required colonist to pay the soldiers expenses

Front 15

What was the purpose of the "committees of correspondence"?

Back 15

Publicize grievances against England

Front 16

Colonists thought if the English Constitution was allowed to work properly it would be the best because it did what?

Back 16

Divided the power between three branches; the monarchy, the aristocrats, and the common man

Front 17

The Coercive and Intolerable Acts made What state a martyr in the eyes of every other colony?

Back 17

Massachusetts

Front 18

What three things did the First Continental Congress do?

Back 18

1)endorsed a statement of grievance
2)called for military preparedness
3)called for a series of boycotts

Front 19

(True or False)
By the 1750's few Americans felt any loyalty to the British Crown.

Back 19

False

Front 20

(True or False)
The French were able to get along better with the Indians because they were more tolerant of the Indian way of life than the British.

Back 20

True

Front 21

(True or False)
Before the Great War for the Empire; England, France, and Spain had been at peace for nearly 50 years.

Back 21

False

Front 22

(True or False)
The Seven Years' War, the Great War for the Empire, and the French and Indian War....were all the same war.

Back 22

True

Front 23

(True or False)
After the Peace of Paris in 1763, the British were tempted to let the Colonist go their own way and make their own decisions.

Back 23

False

Front 24

(True or False)
England was lucky that King George III was young and bright for his age.

Back 24

False

Front 25

(True or False)
Because they needed protection in the east and the west, colonists were glad to have British soldiers stationed there.

Back 25

False

Front 26

(True or False)
The Paxton Boys and the Regulator Movement showed that colonist in west thought they were not being treated fairly by the east.

Back 26

True

Front 27

(True or False)
The Stamp Acts were ill designed by the British because they brought about ill will from the most populated areas in the colonies.

Back 27

True

Front 28

(True or False)
The colonists were concerned about the immediate effects of the Stamp Acts and not the long term effects.

Back 28

False

Front 29

(True or False)
Parliament repealed the Stamp Acts and in the Declaratory Acts stated they would not tax the colonists again.

Back 29

False

Front 30

(True or False)
Colonists agreed to the Townsend Acts to not import taxable goods.

Back 30

True

Front 31

(True or False)
Americans wanted their representatives to represent them, while the British Parliament said that they represented all British citizens regardless of where they lived.

Back 31

True

Front 32

(True or False)
Among other basic rights, Americans thought they should not be taxed without their consent.

Back 32

True

Front 33

(True or False)
The British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre were convicted of murder and hung.

Back 33

False

Front 34

(True or False)
Women and especially southern women took not part in the protests of the coercive acts.

Back 34

False

Front 35

(True or False)
By then time the First Continental Congress met in 1774, most Americans thought they needed a Declaration of Independence.

Back 35

False

Front 36

(True or False)
Lord North assumed most colonists would welcome the Tea Act of 1773 because it made tea cheaper.

Back 36

False

Front 37

(True or False)
Those who attended the Continental Congress never intended that it would meet continually.

Back 37

True

Front 38

(True or False)
The fighting in Lexington and Concord caused people to rally to the rebel cause.

Back 38

True