Multiple Choice Chapter 06 Self-Quiz 2

. What contributed to making urban areas centers of colonial resistance?

Rural residents rarely supported the patriot cause until after 1776.

Their ports were shut down by the Coercive Acts.

No British troops were stationed in them.

Slaves, artisans, elites, and others interacted there.

. The Currency Act required that

all paper money in the colonies be retired.

imperial payments to the colonies be made in paper currency.

British merchants and taxes be paid in currency backed by precious metals.

royal governors keep British ministers apprised of the current colonial situation.

. George Grenville

was a shoemaker who organized one of the Stamp Act uprisings in Boston.

was the prime minister who proposed the Stamp Act.

was the representative to the Stamp Act Congress from Massachusetts.

was the first person killed in the Boston Massacre.

. All of the following were part of the Bourbon Reforms except

a reduction in the authority of Creole families in Spanish America.

crown control of all Spanish colonial mining operations.

the breakup of Spanish colonial trade monopolies.

all of the above were part of the Bourbon Reforms.

. One of the writers who popularized more radical forms of republicanism in the colonies was

John Trenchard.

Voltaire.

John Locke.

Montesquieu.

. The Declaratory Act

forced captains of trading vessels to keep an accurate ship's manifest to curtail smuggling.

declared the Stamp Act uprisings to be a violation of English law.

reasserted Parliament's right to pass any and all colonial laws.

challenged the House of Burgesses' right to exist.

. Along with the Townshend Duties, Parliament also

authorized raids on gunpowder stores across the colonies.

engaged members of the Sons of Liberty to spy on the group's activities.

passed an act that compelled New York to comply with the Quartering Act.

overturned the Proclamation of 1763.

. How did the non-importation movement affect women?

It imbued their everyday tasks with political meaning.

It forced them to cede control of the household to their husbands.

It was a direct affront to their feminine virtue.

It completely ended their tea parties across the colonies.

. The Boston Massacre was the result of

poor training for British troops in dealing with colonial culture.

a plot by the Sons of Liberty to undermine British authority.

tensions resulting from British soldiers being quartered in colonial cities.

a plot by British generals to precipitate war with the colonies.

. How did some other port cities avoid protests of the Tea Act?

Officials paid the tax and then distributed the tea for free.

Officials persuaded ships to leave port without unloading the tea.

Officials cracked down on the Sons of Liberty in nighttime raids.

Officials called out British troops to quell disturbances.

. The purpose of the ride by Paul Revere and William Dawes was

to warn the British that they were coming to take their arms.

to spread word of the Boston Massacre and rally the militia.

to warn Sam Adams and John Hancock that the British were on their way.

to gather the Continental Congress.

. When the king rejected the Olive Branch Petition, most in the Continental Congress

were searching for new ways to avoid separating from the empire.

proposed a new series of petitions to Parliament.

became convinced a movement for independence was inevitable.

sought French intervention to negotiate a peace settlement.

. Who proposed a motion to declare independence in the Continental Congress?

Thomas Jefferson

the Massachusetts delegation

Robert Morris

the Virginia delegation

. The Comandancia General of the Interior Provinces

established an equivalent to the Continental Congress in Spanish territory north of Mexico.

provided support to the British during the first years of the American Revolution.

attempted to better administer the Spanish possessions in Central America.

formed the colonies north of Mexico into a semi-autonomous territory.

. How did the fact that the American colonies were part of the Atlantic World contribute to the independence movement?

Colonists knew they could depend on assistance from the Spanish, Dutch, or French.

European Enlightenment ideas influenced colonial thinking.

Colonists modeled their Declaration of Independence on others throughout the Atlantic World.

Colonists had long ago stopped relying on assistance from the British empire.

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