US History Colonies Quiz 1

One feature of the English mother country that was not transplanted to the colonies was the:
1. aristocratic class structure
2. principle of tax-supported churches
3. notion of loyal British subjects
4. notion of possessing the rights of English subjects
In New cent England towns, the "common" was:
1. a grain storehouse
2. the corpus of civil law
3. a meetinghouse for the selectmen
4. a centrally located shared pasture
The most famous witchcraft hysteria in colonial America occurred in:
1. Salem
2. Newport
3. Charleston
4. Winston Salem
The trial of John Peter Zenger established the principle that:
1. no government could be sued
2. criticism of government was not libel if factually true
3. British public officials were immune from prosecution
4. 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?
1. few officials had any firsthand knowledge about the colonies
2. officials sent to the colonies were often incompetent, and some were dishonest
3. there was no centralized governmental authority in London with exclusive responsibility for the colonies
4. 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:
1. were beginning to develop a sense of nationalism
2. did not have very strong bonds of unity with one another
3. no longer felt the Indians to be a serious threat to their survival
4. 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:
1. control of the Ohio Valley
2. Trading rights with the Indians
3. navigation rights on the Mississippi River
4. French violations of the Navigation acts
The effect of the Treaty of Paris of 1763 was that:
1. the territorial status was restored
2. France lost all territorial possessions on the North American mainland
3. The British were never again troubled by Indians
4. France retained some holdings on the North American continent
The British forbade American colonists from moving westward beyond the Appalachian Mountains in the:
1. Northwest Ordinance
2. Indian Emergency Act
3. Pontiac Proclamation
4. Proclamation Line of 1763
Parliament's response to the colonial agitation against the Stamp Act was to:
1. lower the tax
2. give in completely to the colonial position
3. repeal the Stamp Act but pass the Declaratory Act
4. 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:
1. proportional representation
2. territorial representation
3. vicarious representation
4. virtual representation
The most important purpose of the Tea Act of 1773 was to:
1. prevent the smuggling of tea into the colonies
2. reinstate the tax on tea that had been abolished in 1770
3. help the East India company out of its financial difficulties
4. 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:
1. seize a cache of gunpowder
2. break up the continental Association
3. prevent the Continental Congress from meeting
4. isolate Massachusetts from the rest of the colonies
The opening passages of the Declaration of Independence borrowed heavily from the writings of:
1. Tom Paine
2. John Locke
3. Edmund Burke
4. Jean Jacque Rousseau
The significance of the Battle of Saratoga was that:
1. the British retained control of the seas
2. it led directly to the French alliance with the colonies
3. the British temporarily cut off New England from the rest of the colonies
4. General Howe turned toward Philadelphia instead of linking up with General Burgoyne