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1
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The proposed Albany Plan of 1754:

A

revealed the difficulties colonies had in cooperating with each other.

2
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The leading colonial figure in the Boston Massacre was:

A

Samuel Adams.

3
Q

What future American revolutionary figure surrendered to French forces in 1754 at Fort Necessity in the Ohio Valley?

A

George Washington

4
Q

England was fortunate that King George III was young, bright, and surprisingly mature for his age.

A

False

5
Q

The events of Lexington and Concord:

A

occurred before there was a formal American declaration of independence.

6
Q

Because they needed protection, colonists in both the East and the West were glad to have regular British troops stationed permanently in America.

A

False

7
Q

What was the significance of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense?

A

It informed the colonists of their identity as a distinct people and their destiny as a nation

8
Q

In 1763, Ottawa Chief Pontiac ________.

A

organized a general uprising

9
Q

The Proclamation of 1763:

A

was supported by many Indian tribes.

10
Q

Which of the following stated Parliament’s belief in its own sovereignty?

A

Declaratory Act

11
Q

Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by:

A

reducing the powers of self-government in Massachusetts.

12
Q

The author of Common Sense:

A

considered the English constitution to be the greatest problem facing the colonists.

13
Q

According to the terms of the Peace of Paris of 1763:

A

France ceded Canada and all of its claims to land east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans, to Great Britain.

14
Q

Colonists were concerned over the immediate impact of the Stamp Act, not its long-range implications.

A

False

15
Q

By the 1750s colonial legislatures had come to see themselves as:

A

little parliaments.

16
Q

The Tea Act of 1773:

A

gave the East India company a monopoly on the American tea trade.

17
Q

Which of the following was NOT argued by Thomas Paine in Common Sense?

A

Parliament had deliberately and wickedly brought about all of America’s misfortunes.

18
Q

Whose defeat at the makeshift defensive structure known as Fort Necessity began the Seven Years’ War?

A

George Washington

19
Q

Which of the following British leaders actually supported the colonists’ objections to taxation by Parliament?

A

William Pitt

20
Q

Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, and in the Declaratory Act it declared that it would not tax the colonies in this way again.

A

False

21
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Which of the following is NOT an example of how the colonies were beginning to seize authority a year before the Declaration of Independence, during early 1775?

A

Many colonial leaders increasingly issued explicit calls for full independence.

22
Q

Whose defeat at Québec effectively ended the Seven Years’ War on the continent of North America?

A

the marquis de Montcalm