1) The Boston Massacre

    A) developed in protest to the Boston Tea Party.

    B) involved the slaughter of slaves in Boston by British troops.

    C) grew out of crowd heckling of nervous British soldiers.

    D) was the unprovoked slaughter of dozens of Boston patriots by Hessen soldiers hired by the British.



2) The Intolerable/Coercive Acts were a direct result of the Boston Tea Party. True False

3) The Intolerable/Coercive Acts led to the First Continental Congress. True False

4) Samuel Adams led the , which was essentially a terrorist organization that carried out acts such as tarring and feathering tax collectors.

5) When Americans objected to the Stamp Act with the cry of "no taxation without representation," the British reply was

    A) that Americans would be permitted to vote on taxation measures in each of the colonial assemblies.

    B) that, by means of virtual representation, the interests of Americans had been considered in Parliament.

    C) an agreement that the funds collected from the taxes would be used for improvements in the colonies.

    D) that because this was an internal tax, no approval of Americans was needed.



6) The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act to

    A) raise money to support new military forces needed for colonial defense.

    B) punish the American colonies.

    C) an attempt at censorship by making printed documents more expensive.

    D) regulate trade between the colonies and Britain.



7) The Seven Years War ended with Britain as the only colonial power in the Americas. True False

8) According to the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), French holdings in America west of the Mississippi were to be part of the empire of .

9) The widened the terms of the imperial debate, intensified resistence within the colonies, and most important, provoked the first real display of intercolonial unity.

10) After a lull following the repeal of the Townshend Duties, what British initiative revived resistence?

    A) a tax on tea

    B) an act giving the East India Company a monopoly on supplying tea to the colonies

    C) a cluster of acts designed to punish Massachusetts and intimidate the other colonies

    D) sending soldiers out into the Massachusetts countryside to crush the resistence.



11) In the Declaratory Act, Parliament

    A) asserted its authority to levy direct taxes on the colonies.

    B) relinquished its authority to levy direct taxes on the colonies.

    C) limited its authority in America to the regulation of trade.

    D) left unclear the extent of its authority in America.



12) What was new in American resistence to the Townshend Duties?

    A) nonimportation of British goods

    B) institutionalized mechanisms for enforcing nonimportation

    C) an intercolonial congress

    D) a formal statement of American constitutional arguments.