One feature of the English mother country that was not transplanted to the colonies was the:
aristocratic class structure
principle of tax-supported churches
notion of loyal British subjects
notion of possessing the rights of English subjects
In New cent England towns, the "common" was:
a grain storehouse
the corpus of civil law
a meetinghouse for the selectmen
a centrally located shared pasture
The most famous witchcraft hysteria in colonial America occurred in:
Salem
Newport
Charleston
Winston Salem
The trial of John Peter Zenger established the principle that:
no government could be sued
criticism of government was not libel if factually true
British public officials were immune from prosecution
any criticism of the British colonial administration was libel
British administration of the North American colonies was weakened by three of the following circumstances. Which is the exception?
few officials had any firsthand knowledge about the colonies
officials sent to the colonies were often incompetent, and some were dishonest
there was no centralized governmental authority in London with exclusive responsibility for the colonies
Elected colonial legislative assemblies in the colonies were not responsive to the needs of the people
The ultimate outcome of the Albany Plan is evidence that the American colonies:
were beginning to develop a sense of nationalism
did not have very strong bonds of unity with one another
no longer felt the Indians to be a serious threat to their survival
were ready to subordinate their differences and unite for common defense
The French and Indian war began as a dispute between the English and the French over:
control of the Ohio Valley
Trading rights with the Indians
navigation rights on the Mississippi River
French violations of the Navigation acts
The effect of the Treaty of Paris of 1763 was that:
the territorial status was restored
France lost all territorial possessions on the North American mainland
The British were never again troubled by Indians
France retained some holdings on the North American continent
The British forbade American colonists from moving westward beyond the Appalachian Mountains in the:
Northwest Ordinance
Indian Emergency Act
Pontiac Proclamation
Proclamation Line of 1763
Parliament's response to the colonial agitation against the Stamp Act was to:
lower the tax
give in completely to the colonial position
repeal the Stamp Act but pass the Declaratory Act
raise the amount of the tax
The idea that the members of Parliament spoke for the interests of all English subjects rather that for the interests of only the district that elected them is known as:
proportional representation
territorial representation
vicarious representation
virtual representation
The most important purpose of the Tea Act of 1773 was to:
prevent the smuggling of tea into the colonies
reinstate the tax on tea that had been abolished in 1770
help the East India company out of its financial difficulties
raise more revenue in the colonies in order to defray the costs of defense
General Thomas Gage ordered British troops to march to Lexington and Concord to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock and to:
seize a cache of gunpowder
break up the continental Association
prevent the Continental Congress from meeting
isolate Massachusetts from the rest of the colonies
The opening passages of the Declaration of Independence borrowed heavily from the writings of:
Tom Paine
John Locke
Edmund Burke
Jean Jacque Rousseau
The significance of the Battle of Saratoga was that:
the British retained control of the seas
it led directly to the French alliance with the colonies
the British temporarily cut off New England from the rest of the colonies
General Howe turned toward Philadelphia instead of linking up with General Burgoyne