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Instructions: Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -committees of observation and inspection

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Which of the following was the most pressing problem facing Great Britain at the end of the Seven Years War?


A) Hostile Indian tribes in the Ohio country
B) The government's war debt
C) Economic hard times and unemployment in England
D) Establishing legal authority over French settlers along the St. Lawrence

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As a result of the Treaty of Paris of 1763,


A) France was allowed to maintain its control over the North American fur trade.
B) France ceded its major North American possessions to Great Britain.
C) France was allowed to keep Louisiana.
D) Spain was stripped of all land holdings in North America.

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John Galloway and John Adams held different positions on the constitutional relationship between England and its colonies. Using Galloway's plan of union and the crucial clauses proposed by John Adams and contained in the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, contrast their positions.

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Parliament's intent in passing the Quebec Act was to


A) provide governmental reforms for the former French colony of Quebec.
B) strip the inland colonies of land and power.
C) create a model of colonial government in Quebec that eventually would be imposed on all the colonies.
D) warn that eventually the Catholic Church would be given favored status in all the colonies.

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Which of the following is an accurate description of the Sons of Liberty, created in 1765?


A) The organization was founded by colonists who opposed the colonial resistance movement.
B) This intercolonial association was created by the elite in an attempt to channel crowd action into acceptable forms of resistance.
C) This intercolonial association was founded by a group of newspaper editors who composed a series of essays on the subject of liberty.
D) The organization was strongest in the South and was composed of radicals who demanded separation from Great Britain.

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Some leaders of the American resistance movement viewed passage of the Tea Act as


A) a sign that Parliament was willing to compromise on the major issues of disagreement between itself and the American colonies.
B) an indication that Parliament eventually intended to establish an East India Company monopoly on all colonial trade.
C) an indication that Parliament eventually intended to prohibit the sale of all tea in the American colonies.
D) proof that Parliament would respond positively to colonial assemblies if they presented their grievances in a respectful way

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Instructions: Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -Great Britain's financial crisis, 1760s-1770s

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Instructions: Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -the Stamp Act

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Instructions: Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -the "Ohio Country"

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Instructions: Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -Joseph Galloway

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After all but one of the Townshend duties were repealed, patriots


A) continued to speak of impending tyranny and of a deliberate plot against American liberties.
B) called for negotiations with George III to prevent future problems.
C) praised Parliament for having the political courage to admit its mistakes.
D) called for the election of representatives to an intercolonial legislature.

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Discuss the causes, consequences, and significance of the New Jersey 1746) and Hudson Valley 1765-1766) land riots.

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Which of the following is true of the patriots' perception of the Coercive and Quebec Acts?


A) They viewed them as just punishment for the wrongs committed by Boston citizens in the Boston Tea Party.
B) Because of divisions within their ranks, the patriots had no unified view of these acts.
C) They viewed the Coercive Acts as repressive but cared little about the Quebec Act because it applied to Canada.
D) They viewed both as a deliberate plot by the British to destroy their rights.

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Which of the following statements is most consistent with the political thought of the Real Whigs?


A) Human beings will be free only when they decide to discard organized government.
B) There is a constant threat to liberty within monarchical government.
C) The only way to preserve order and stability is to put power into the hands of an enlightened monarch.
D) Government should act in a positive manner to aid the poor, the destitute, and the aged.

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The Boston statement of rights and grievances, drafted by the Boston Committee of Correspondence in 1772, differed from previous patriot pamphlets in that it


A) did not mention the necessity of obedience to Parliament.
B) did not profess allegiance to the king.
C) attempted to define the precise limits of parliamentary authority.
D) claimed that colonial assemblies had the right to judge the constitutionality of acts of Parliament.

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Discuss the importance of public rituals as part of the colonial resistance movement.

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Why did the American colonists protest Parliament's passage of the Sugar and Currency Acts?


A) The colonists did not believe that Parliament had the power to regulate trade.
B) These acts placed a financial burden on many colonists who were already suffering from the effects of a depressed colonial economy.
C) These acts placed restrictions on the type of legislation that could be enacted by colonial assemblies.
D) The colonists contended that Parliament had no legislative power in the colonies.

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Instructions: Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -the Boston Tea Party

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Which of the following British actions angered Native Americans in the Ohio Country and eventually led to Pontiac's uprising?


A) The British raised the price of goods traded to Indian tribes in the Ohio Country.
B) Chief Pontiac was angered by British attacks against the tribal villages of the Delawares.
C) The British embarked on a program to destroy and eliminate tribes in the Ohio country.
D) Chief Pontiac learned that the British were supplying his tribal enemies with arms and ammunition.

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