APUSH Chap. 4 Review

At the time of Lexington and Concord, General Thomas Gage

• considered his army to small to act without reinforcements
• arrested Sam Adams and John Hancock near Lexington
• offered to resign his command to avoid war
• was convinced that Americans would never fight

In 1775, the Conciliatory Propositions

• forced Parliament to send more troops to Boston 
• temporarily reduced tensions in the colonies
• was an appeal by the British gov. to moderates in the colonies
• called on Parliament to reduce taxes

The Quebec Act

• reduced the boundaries of Quebec
• was approved of by most English colonists
• granted political rights to Roman Catholics
• made the Roman Catholic Church illegal

Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by

• reducing the geographic size of the colony
• repealing the Tea Act
• withdrawing military protection of Massachusetts
• reducing the powers of self-government in Massachusetts

The Tea Act of 1773

• lowered the price of tea for American colonists
• provided no new tax on tea
• was intended to benefit a private British company
• All of these answers are correct

Taverns were important in the growth of revolutionary sentiment because

• they were central meeting places to discuss ideas
• it was the only place women and men gathered to speak
• colonists resented the British duties on alcohol
• All these answers are correct

In 1774, the First Continental Congress

• called for the repeal of all oppressive legislation passed since 1763
• agreed to end colonial boycotts of British trade
• accepted a plan for a colonial union under British authority
• proposed that the colonial union under British authority

In the 18th century, under the English government's theory of representation,

• the king spoke to Parliament on behalf of the American colonies
• the American colonies were represented by the courts
• the American colonies were represented in Parliament
• the American  colonies had no claim to political representation

In the 1760s, "country Whigs" were English colonists who

• feared the political protests would damage the long-term profits of America
• called on King George III to more firmly assert his authority
• defended the British imperial system
• considered the British government to be corrupt and oppressive

In the 18th century, the English constitution was

• difficult to change
• an unwritten document
• unpopular in both England and America
• believed to be holding back colonial expansion