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One of the few advantages a colonial governor had in conflicts with his colonial subjects was his A) permanent tenure of office. B) complete freedom to maneuver without restrictions imposed on him by his instructions from the king. C) financial independence from the colonial legislatures. D) power to summon and dismiss the colonial assembly.
E) large number of jobs and favors to use as rewards.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 2. In nearly every colony, the most powerful part of the government tended to be the A) governor. B) governor's council. C) township or county level officials. D) royal judges.
E) colonial legislature.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 3. In the 1680s, James II tried to unify royal control of the northern colonies by creating the A) Board of Trade. B) Privy Council. C) Dominion of New England. D) Office of Colonial Administration.
E) Dominion of North America.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 4. The Board of Trade's power to recommend disallowance of colonial laws was A) used against only a small percentage of the laws which it reviewed B) theoretical only, since the Crown seldom accepted its recommendation. C) used against more than half of the laws which it reviewed. D) ended by a royal order of 1696 because of the colonists' petition.
E) ruled unconstitutional by the House of Lords.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A
The British government of the American colonies A) was strongly centralized from its very beginning. B) became less effective and centralized from 1660 to 1776. C) never developed an effective, centralized government. D) had little subsequent influence on the development of American government.
E) was often dominated by colonial agents such as Benjamin Franklin.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 6. The seventeenth-century economic theory which viewed colonies primarily as sources of raw materials is most accurately labeled A) mercantilism. B) protectionism. C) free trade. D) imperialism.
E) nationalism.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 7. A fundamental goal of British mercantilism was to A) obtain raw materials from the mother country rather than from its colonies. B) eliminate obstacles to free trade. C) produce manufactured goods for export and limit imports of manufactured items. D) ship products in foreign vessels to save the expense of building a fleet.
E) import manufactured goods from colonies because of their cheap labor supply.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 8. "The surest way for a nation to increase in riches is to prevent the importation of such foreign commodities as may be raised at home... ." This statement is an example of the concept of A) laissez-faire. B) imperialsim C) iron law of wages. D) physiocracy.
E) mercantilism.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E
E) woolen goods and hats.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 13. In practice, the British mercantile system worked so that the A) colonies' interests predominated over those of the mother country. B) mother country's interests predominated over those of the colonies. C) colonies and mother country were equal partners, sharing a general imperial interest. D) interests of both the colonies and the mother country were so thwarted that the prosperity of the empire was seriously hampered.
E) interests of the northern colonies were favored over the southern colonies.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 14. The restrictions of English mercantilism on the colonial economies A) destroyed the thriving indigo and cotton plantations. B) bankrupted New England shipbuilders. C) were greatly lessened by governmental inefficiency. D) prohibited the importation of slaves.
E) prevented the development of maritime trade in New England.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 15. George Whitefield's greatest contribution to the Great Awakening was his A) intellectually rigorous theological system. B) insistence that the Church of England was the only true church. C) ability to stir an audience emotionally by his oratory. D) refutation of John Calvin's doctrine of predestination as absurd.
E) strong appeal to the religious establishment.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 16. The Great Awakening tended to emphasize A) an emotional and revivalistic style of religion. B) human reason and scientific observation as the key to truth. C) preaching to those who were already church members.
D) the basic goodness and sinlessness of human nature.
E) Christians' duty to share their wealth with the poor.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 17. The most famous native-born revivalist of the Great Awakening was the intellectually brilliant author of sermons such as "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." He was A) Jonathan Edwards. B) Charles Chauncy. C) Solomon Stoddard. D) Charles Backus.
E) Increase Mather.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 18. The view that the universe is based on impersonal, scientific laws which govern the behavior of all matter, animate and inanimate, was basic to the A) Great Awakening. B) Puritans. C) Enlightenment. D) Half-Way Covenant.
E) Quakers.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 19. "I never doubted.. .the existence of the Deity, that he made the world and governed it by his providence, that the most acceptable service of God was.. .doing good to man, that our souls are immortal, and that all crime will be punished and virtue rewarded either here or hereafter. These I esteemed the essentials of every religion, and being.. .found in all religions we had in our country, I respected them all... ." This statement is typical of the ideas of the A) Enlightenment. B) Puritans. C) Great Awakening. D) Half-Way Covenant.
E) Quakers.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A
Correct Answer(s): B 24. After Eunice Williams was captured by Mohawk warriors in Deerfield, Massachusetts, she A) escaped by killing one of her captors with his own knife. B) married a Mohawk and refused to return to her biological family. C) was ransomed for three horses and two bags of grain. D) converted her captors to Christianity and became on of the first American saints.
E) was rescued by militia led by the young George Washington.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 25. In 1758 ________ took over British leadership of the French and Indian War, pouring soldiers and money into North America. A) King George II B) Charles Townshend C) Edmund Burke D) Lord North
E) William Pitt
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 26. According to the map, "British Successes, 1758-1763," the route General James Wolfe followed in mounting his successful attack on Quebec was A) Lake Ontario. B) the Hudson River. C) Lake Champlain. D) the St. Lawrence River.
E) Lake Erie.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 27. Under the Treaty of Paris (1763) ending the French and Indian War, A) Great Britain retained all the conquests that she had made of French and Spanish possessions. B) France retained Canada but lost her sugar islands of Guadaloupe and Martinique. C) France lost all her possessions on the mainland of North America. D) Spain lost all her possessions in the Western Hemisphere.
E) England lost all her possessions in the Western Hemisphere except for North America.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 28. The British victory in the French and Indian War was due largely to A) British soldiers financed by the British government. B) American soldiers financed by the colonial assemblies. C) American soldiers financed by the British government. D) British soldiers financed by the colonial assemblies.
E) Native American warriors allied with the colonies and the British.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 29. In governing their American empire after 1763, the new problem which faced the British was A) colonial reluctance to expand into the Ohio River Valley. B) greatly increased expenses of administering a far larger and more complex empire. C) strong American support for a rudimentary colonial union expressed in the popular Albany Plan. D) colonial resentment for the failure of the British to aid them during the French and Indian War.
E) demands from the British public to control unruly colonists.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 30. In 1763 the Ottawa chief, ________, led one last effort to drive the whites back across the Appalachians. A) Corn Planter B) Opechancanough C) Black Hawk D) King Philip
E) Pontiac
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 31. Americans were most alarmed by the Sugar Act of 1764 because it
One reason that American protests against the Stamp Act were vehement was that it A) was a new form of taxation, having no precedent in England. B) greatly increased the cost of all articles imported into America. C) taxed influential and articulate groups such as lawyers and clergy. D) did not benefit the colonists with the programs it funded.
E) no colonists were hired to print or distribute the stamps.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 36. The Stamp Act was repealed in 1766 primarily because of the A) pressure from British merchants who had been hurt by the American boycott B) recognition by Parliament that it had acted unconstitutionally. C) petition sent from the Stamp Act Congress. D) riots and disturbances in the colonies protesting the act.
E) small revenue generated by stamp sales.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 37. On the same day it repealed the Stamp Act, Parliament passed the ________ Act stating that the colonies were "subordinate" to its wishes. A) Sovereignty B) Coercive C) Supremacy D) Townshend
E) Declaratory
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 38. The American understanding of the word "constitution" emphasized the A) totality of laws, customs, and institutions developed over time. B) specific written document spelling out and limiting the powers of government. C) constitutionality of all laws passed by legislative bodies. D) guarantee of certain fundamental liberties, such as the right of all adults to vote.
E) shared faith in the Bible as a guide to public life.
Points Earned: 1.0/1.
Correct Answer(s): B 39. Which of the following most accurately describes the English government's position on the meaning of sovereignty? A) Parliament was sovereign over the external affairs of the colonies; the crown was sovereign over Parliament and the colonies' internal affairs. B) Sovereignty was indivisible and rested ultimately with Parliament. C) Parliament was sovereign over the colonies' external affairs; the colonial legislatures were sovereign over their internal affairs. D) Sovereignty was indivisible and rested ultimately with the colonial legislatures.
E) the King was sovereign over all aspects of colonial affairs.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 40. "It is essential to the being of government that a power should always exist which no other power within such government can have right to withstand and control. Therefore, when the word power relates to the supreme authority of government it must be understood as absolute and unlimited." This statement is an example of the A) English view of direct representation. B) American view of sovereignty. C) American view of direct representation. D) English view of sovereignty.
E) American view of virtual representation.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 41. The 1768 document which criticized the Townshend Acts as infringements on the natural and constitutional rights of the colonists was the A) Declaration of Rights and Grievances. B) Virginia "Resolves." C) Massachusetts "Circular Letter." D) Olive Branch Petition.
E) Pennsylvania Declaration.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 42. Parliament's main goal in the Tea Act of 1773 was to
The most significant aspect of the Coercive Acts was that they A) indicated Great Britain's desire to decrease its control of the colonies. B) had little impact on the colonies. C) were widely popular in colonial America. D) indicated a change in British policy, from persuasion to punishment.
E) did the greatest economic harm to those who could least afford it.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 47. The most conservative proposal before the First Continental Congress in 1774 was the A) proposal by Massachusetts that urged its citizens to take up arms. B) Boston Manifesto that denounced the crimes committed by the British government since 1763. C) Continental Association which called for boycotting British goods and cutting off exports to Great Britain. D) plan from Joseph Galloway to create a general government for America capable of blocking Parliament's proposals.
E) Albany Plan from Benjamin Franklin for voluntary union among the colonies.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 48. According to your text, the most significant outcome of the First Continental Congress in the fall of 1774 was the A) demand for colonial representation in Parliament. B) colonies' hopes for a peaceful re-establishment of relations with England on the same basis as before the Stamp Act crisis. C) decision to end the boycott of British goods and resume normal trade as a gesture of good will. D) formation of a Continental Army with George Washington as commander-in-chief.
E) realization that drastic changes must be made in their relationship with England.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 49. The major purpose of the Proclamation of 1763 was to A) restrict colonial trade with England to British ships. B) force the Native Americans of the Ohio Valley to submit to British authority. C) tighten imperial controls over colonial trade with Latin America. D) check colonial expansion across the Appalachians.
E) promote colonial land development projects in the Ohio Valley.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 50. In an effort to help support the increased cost of colonial administration, Parliament passed the ________ Act in 1764, placing tariffs on coffee, wines, and other major imports. A) Tea B) Sugar C) Grenville D) Declaratory
E) Beverage
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B
