American Pageant Chapter 7

According to the Proclamation of 1763

• colonial militiamen were required to put down Pontiac’s Rebellion.
• colonial paper money could not be printed.
• contact between colonials and Indians was strictly forbidden
• settlers were prohibited from crossing the Appalachian mountains.

The Declaratory Act of 1766

• required the colonists to provide housing and supplies to British troops.
• forbade  the American colonies from issuing money.
• established a new duty on molasses
• stated that parliament had the power to make laws binding on the colonies.

Most of the thirteen original colonies

• were controlled by the British crown.
• were the first examples of self-representation.
• were controlled for the promotion of certain goods and services.
• privately operated by wealthy families

The most significant consequence of the French and Indian War was that  

• Spain received Florida as a prize of war.
• Colonists feared being dragged into another European War.
• England and the colonies began to distrust each other.
• there were British attacks against the tribes that had sided with the French.

The “radical whig” idea, highly popular with colonial Americans, especially warned against

• the evils of an hereditary titled nobility.
• trade and manufacturing resulting in social corruption.
• the corruption of society caused by patronage and bribery of the king’s ministers.
• the impact education had on the masses understanding of themselves.

Paul Revere’s goal in the drawing of the Boston Massacre can be associated with

• Colonial Journalism.
• Colonial Propaganda.
• depicting the truth regarding an event.
• showing the horrors of French on the British.

Under the theory of mercantilism, the British colonies were essentially expected to

• buy only British goods and sell all their own goods only to Britain and nowhere else.
• urnish raw materials to the mother country and buy British manufactured goods.
• provide troops for their own defense and pay taxes to support the common welfare of the Empire.
• grant British investors fifty percent of the ownership of any colonial commercial or manufacturing enterprise.

The Sugar Act, the Quartering Act, and the Stamp Act were all fundamentally designed to

• teach the Americans that they were subjects and not equal citizens of the British Empire
• force colonial Americans to pay for the costs of the Seven Years’ War and the continuing cost of their defense.
• assert the principle that Parliament had the right to tax as well as legislate for the colonies.
• to resist any revolt that might occur in the Colonies

Americans especially resented the granting of a monopoly on tea sales to the British East India Company because

• Americans believed deeply in the principles of free  economic competition.
• its ability to sell tea at a lower cost would tempt Americans to violate their anti-taxation principles.
• the corrupt Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson had secretly organized the entire affair.
• selling the subsidized tea would ruin the possibility of developing an American tea industry.

The most effective colonial measure that forced the repeal of the Stamp Act was

• the Stamp Act Congress
• the creation of the Committees of Correspondence
• the violent colonial assaults on British Redcoats
• the complete colonial boycott of British goods.