american pageant ch. 7

the British theory of mercantilism, by which the colonies were governed held that

• the economy should be shaped by market forces, without gov. interference.

• the colonies should develop by becoming as economically self-sufficient as possible.

• the colonial economy should be carefully controlled to serve the mother country's needs.

• colonists should promote economic growth by free trade with other countries.

one of the ways in which mercantilism harmed the colonial economy was

• by prohibiting colonial merchants form owning and operating their own shapes.

• by inhibiting the development of banking and paper currency in the colonies.

• by forcing the colonists to fall into debt through the purchase of goods in the colonies.

• by forcing Virginia tobacco planters to sell their product only in Britain.

mobilization of "non-importation" policies against the Stamp Act was politically important because

• it aroused the first french support for the American cause.

• it aroused revolutionary fervor among many ordinary American men and women

• it reinforced the completely nonviolent character of the anti-British movement.

• it helped stimulate the development of colonial manufacturing

when British officials decided to enforce the East India's Company's tea monoply and the threepence tax on tea

• they were successful in landing the tea everywhere except Boston.

• colonists were outraged because their favorite beverage would cost more than ever before.

• the colonists persuaded friendly Indian tribes to dump tea into the Boston harbor.

• colonists were outraged because they saw it as a trick to undermine theri principled resistance to the tax.

the British reacted to the Boston Tea Party by

• shipping colonial protestors to Britain for trial.

• closing the Port of Boston until the damages were paid and order restored.

• passing the Quebec Act prohibiting trial by jury and permitting the practice of Catholicism.

• granting a monopoly on the sale of tea to the British East India Company

American colonists especially resented the Townshend Acts because

• they strongly disliked the British minister, "Champagne Charles" Townshend, who proposed them

• the revenues from taxation would go to support British officials and judges in America.

• they called for establishment of the Anglican church throughout the colonies.

• the taxes were to be imposed directly by the king without an act of Parliament.

the passage of the Quebec Act aroused intense American fears because

• it put the french language on an equal standing with the English throughout colonies.

• it involved stationing British troops throughout the colonies.

• it extended Catholic jurisdiction and a non-jury judicial system into the western Ohio country.

• it threatened to make Canada the dominant British colony in North America.

the most important action the Continental Congress took to protest the Intolerable Acts was

• forming The Association to impose a complete boycott of all British goods.

• organizing a colonial militia to prepare for military resistance.

• forming Committees of Correspondence to communicate among all the colonies and develop political oppositions to British rule.

• sending petitions the British Parliament demanding repeal of the laws.

the event that participated the first real shooting between the British and American colonists was

• the British attempt to seize bunker hill and the Old North Church.

• the British attempt to seize colonial supplies and leaders at Lexington and Concord.

• the Boston Tea Party

• the Boston Massacre.

the British parliamentary gov. at the time of the American Revolution was headed by

• William Pitt

• " Champagne Charles" Townshend

• Edmund Burke

• Lord North