complete the following questions with the answers provided  17.  Which of the statements below best describes the level of support for the American Revolution during the 1770s?
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Almost no one supported the American Revolution; only radicals like the Sons of Liberty supported it.
The American Revolution was supported by virtually everyone in the American Colonies.
The American Revolution was only supported by colonists in the Southern region of America.
About one-third of Americans supported the Revolution; one-third opposed it, and the rest were indifferent.
10.  In this Parliamentary Act, the British required Americans to allow English soldiers to live in their homes or to provide barracks for the soldiers.  Additionally, they needed to provide meals and a variety of other resources!  Americans hated this act so much that today, our 3rd Amendment to the Constitution forbids the government from placing soldiers in our homes!
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The Declaratory Act
The Townshend Act
The Quartering Act
The Quebec Act
The Patriot Act
11.  This 1767 act placed new taxes on imported goods like lead, paints, glass, paper, and tea –
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The Townshend Acts
The Quartering Acts
The Grenville Laws
The Stamp Act
The Declaratory Act
7.  He was the temperamental leader of the Sons of Liberty in Boston, who organized massive protests against the English and instigated the rebellion:
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Samuel Adams
John Hancock
James Otis
Paul Revere
Benjamin Franklin
16.  After the Boston Tea Party, the English government was so outraged that they passed the Coercive Acts.  Which of the following measures was a part of the Coercive Acts?  
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The Governor of Massachusetts was relieved by General Thomas Gage, and martial law was declared.
Town hall meetings were banned in Boston, Massachusetts.
The port of Boston was shut down completely, and would remain closed until the tea was paid for.
Even more soldiers were sent to Boston to crack down on any dissent or protests.
All of the above statements were parts of the Coercive Acts, which Americans called "Intolerable."
9.  Who was the King of England throughout the period of the American Revolution, towards whom Americans directed their vitriol and anger?
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King Henry VIII
King George III
King Edward II
The Fisher King
King Leopold
15. Which of the following WAS NOT a part of the British Response to the Boston Tea Party?
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A group of laws the British called the Coercive Acts, which shut down the Boston Harbor.
A group of laws Americans called the Intolerable Acts, which established martial law in Boston.
Law installing General Thomas Gage as the new Governor, and banning town hall meetings.
Laws which prohibited Sunday church gatherings, since they were viewed as rebel meetings.
Laws which ended jury trials for smugglers - who would now be tried in vice admiralty courts in England.
18.  The First Continental Congress encouraged Americans to -
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stop paying taxes to their colonial assemblies.
form militias and prepare to defend their communities at a moments notice.
protect all of the colonies frontier communities by pooling resources.
demand greater representation in the Parliament.
12.  What event is depicted in this etching, and who is the artist who created the propaganda?
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The Gaspee Affair, as depicted by Samuel Adams
The Liberty Incident, as depicted by John Hancock
The Boston Massacre, as depicted by Paul Revere
The Boston Tea Party, as depicted by James Otis
19. The Olive Branch Petition was an attempt by members of the Continental Congress to -
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raise money and collect arms to go to war with England.
reconcile with King George III and Parliament to reset relations and avoid war.
create an alliance between American Colonists, Native Americans, and the French.
ban slavery in the United States of America and encourage black soldiers to enlist.
4.  Despite helping to win the war, American colonists were forbidden to settle anywhere west of the Appalachian Mountains by -
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The Treaty of Paris of 1763
The Declaratory Act
The Proclamation of 1763
The Intolerable Acts
2. Which of the following statements is true?
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During the French and Indian War, almost all Native Americans supported American colonists.
Native Americans were eager to trade with England, and did not view American settlers as a threat.
France won a complete victory during the conflict, driving the Spanish out of Florida.
England won a complete victory over France, but only after almost a decade of bloody, costly warfare.
6. The primary reason Americans organized in protest against Parliament's Stamp Act in 1765 was that  -
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taxes were too high on tea and sugar for impoverished Americans.
local assemblies already taxed American colonists at excessive rates.
the Stamp Act used occupying soldiers to collect the tax, burdening families.
Americans objected to "Taxation Without Representation!"
5. The first tax Americans were charged in the 1760s was on sugar, molasses, and rum - The Sugar Act - and it was little noticed because -
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Americans did not consumer sugar, molasses, or rum and therefore never noticed it.
The tax was charged only on importers, who passed it on to their consumers quietly.
American supported this tax for the benefit of their children's good health.
The Sugar Act was such a small tax that Americans could afford it and didn't worry about it.
14. How did American colonists respond to the Tea Act, passed in 1773?
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Colonists formed the Committees of Correspondence to repeal the act.
The Sons of Liberty were founded by John Hancock in Boston.
Shays' Rebellion was staged in western Massachusetts.
The First Continental Congress was created.
Boycotts, non-importation treaties, and the Boston Tea Party.
20.  Who was the principle author of the following lines? "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
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Thomas Jefferson
George Mason
James Madison
George Wythe
Alexander Hamilton
8.  After repealing the Stamp Act and acknowledging American protests, Parliament passed this act to reassert its right to tax American colonists at any time:
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The Townshend Acts
The Declaratory Act
The Proclamation of 1763
The Olive Branch Petition
The Coercive Acts
13.  These letter-writing campaigns started after the Gaspee Affair in 1772, and eventually, they organized both the "shadow governments" in the states and the Continental Congress:
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The Minutemen Militias
The Suffolk Resolves
The Committees of Correspondence
The Stamp Act Congress
The Sons of Liberty
3.  The most important result of the French and Indian War was that -
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at the end of the conflict, France controlled the Ohio River Valley and the fur trade.
all Native American tribes were force to migrate into the northern reaches of Canada.
England would now dominate all trade in the Caribbean, having vanquished its only rivals.
England had accumulated a tremendous amount of debt during the war.
1.  During the 1750s and 1760s, England and its American colonists fought a long and bloody war against -
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the Dutch, who defended New Amsterdam using a dominant navy and brutal methods.
the Spanish and their allies, the Seminole tribe of Florida.
the Russians, who had initially fallen into conflict with England over claims to the Oregon Country.
the French and their Indian allies, over the fertile soil and fur trade in the Ohio River Valley.