APUSH Review Ch 7

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The republican and Whig ideologies that English colonists embraced by the mid-eighteenth century included all of the following tenets EXCEPT that

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power should be centralized within the monarchy.

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Which of the following circumstances did NOT influence America’s attitudes about rights and the nature of government by the 1750s?
- The aristocracy that was common in England never took hold in the colonies.
- Property ownership and political participation was more easily accessible in the colonies.
- Colonists had become accustomed to running things for themselves, with little interference from the crown.
- Colonists universally embraced religious toleration.
- The vast ocean expanse that distanced England from the colonies also weakened its ability to exert its authority.

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Colonists universally embraced religious toleration.

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Britain’s relationship with its colonies was based on mercantilism, the theory that

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wealth is power, and colonies could be used to enrich the mother country.

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The colonists detested the mercantilist system for all of these reasons EXCEPT that

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it caused a currency surplus.

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To raise money to cover debts incurred in the Seven Years’ War and to reassert authority over its North American colonies, Britain passed and enforced all of the following measures EXCEPT the: Navigation Acts, Sugar Act, Intolerable Act, Quartering Act, Stamp Act

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Intolerable Act

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Which of these protests against the Stamp Act was most effective in ultimately securing its repeal? Options: The Stamp Act Congress of 1765, Petitions to Parliament, Nonimportation agreements, Violent protests, Refusal to pay the tax

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The Stamp Act Congress of 1765

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British colonists were outraged by the Townshend Act for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that: it sought to skirt the issue of taxation by imposing “duties” instead.

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it sought to skirt the issue of taxation by imposing “duties” instead.

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The Boston Massacre, which occurred on March 5, 1770, describes

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a standoff between colonists and redcoats that resulted in the deaths of eleven Bostonians.

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The First Continental Congress met in 1774 principally to

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strategize ways to redress colonial grievances.

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Both Britain and Spain pressured their colonies with new taxes to help pay their share of the Seven Years’ War, but reaction to these policies led to a war for independence only among British colonists for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that

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Spanish colonies were far more ethnically and racially divided.