Chapter 7

fought for both the Americans and the British.

African Americans during the Revolutionary War

soldiers who were incapable of fighting effectively.

All of the following were weaknesses of the British military during the War for Independence except

A, C, D, B

Arrange the following events in chronological order:
(A) Sugar Act
(B) Declaratory Act
(C) Stamp Act
(D) repeal of the Stamp Act.

British officials sent regiments of troops to Boston to restore law and order.

As a result of American opposition to the Townshend Acts

only a select minority of Americans supported independence with selfless devotion and at enormous personal risk to themselves and their families.

At the outset of the American War of Independence

having colonial legislatures issue a court mandate forbidding the enforcement of the act.

Colonists responded to the hated Stamp Act in all of the following ways except

Virginia

In 1773, ____ led the way by creating the first intercolonial committee of correspondence.

the provocation against the British authorities to enact and implement more coercive and authoritarian laws governing the colonies.

The Boston Tea Party of 1773 was

consider ways of redressing colonial grievances against Britain.

The First Continental Congress was called in order to

provide housing and food for British troops.

The Quartering Act required that colonists

denied French colonists in Quebec and the Ohio River Valley the right to retain many of their old customs and institutions.

The Quebec Act was especially unpopular in the American colonies because it did all of the following except it

it kept alive the principle of parliamentary taxation

The tax on tea was retained when the Townshend Acts were repealed because

every member of Parliament represented all British subjects everywhere including in the American colonies.

Virtual representation meant that

levy revenue-raising taxes on the colonies.

When colonists shouted "No taxation without representation," they were denying Parliament's power to

Many women urged husbands and sons to stay home and safeguard their families and property instead of volunteering for to serve in a colonial militia or the Continental army.

Which of the following is not a true statement about American women's roles during the Revolution?

British allowed the Americans to freely trade with other countries and compete on the open market.

All of the following were direct benefits reaped by the Americans from the mercantile system of Britain except

many outstanding civilian and military leaders

As the War for Independence began, the colonies had the advantage of

feared that if George III triumphed, his rule at home might become tyrannical.

Many Whigs in Britain hoped for an American victory in the War for Independence because they

A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2

Match each individual on the left with the correct description.

A. Samuel Adams
B. John Adams
C. Crispus Attucks
D. Baron von Stueben

1. a casualty of the Boston Massacre
2. a foreign volunteer who drilledAmerican troops during the War of Independence
3. a pamphleteer who first organized committees of correspondence to exchange ideas and information on resisting British policy
4. a Massachusetts politician who defeated the proposed home rule solution to the imperial crisis at the First Continental Congress advocated by colonial moderates

the summoning of the First Continental Congress in 1774.

The most politically consequential of the responses by the American colonists to the Intolerable Acts was