APUSH Chapter 5

The British government dealt with war debt after the Seven Years War by...

• raised taxes on land in the colonies

• Cut costs by decreasing the size of its bureaucracy

• decreased import duties on consumables in order to increase sales

• Increased import taxes on goods used by the poor and middling classes like sugar and beer.

Britains national debt effected its government in England and American by

• Increasing the size and power of bureaucracy in England and America

• Led Britain to suspend the colonies royal governorship and decrease subsidies to the monarchy

• transferring government officials from colonies back to London

• reducing the size of its domestic and colonial tax bureaucracies

After the end of the Great War for Empire the British send 7,500 troops to N. America to...

• protect the colonies from the Spanish

• prevent future Indian uprisings on the frontier

• contrive another purpose for its troops during times of peace

• rebuild the areas that were destroyed during the war.

The colonists objections to the Sugar Act stemmed from which of the following?

• high taxes that could bankrupt merchants

• strict penalties which discouraged smuggling and raised prices

• growing administrative power of the British government over the colonies

• Britain's intention to make the colonists pay for their own defense.

Why did colonists object to the vice admiralty courts in which violators of the Sugar Act were tried?

• administered by British Navy rather than civilian officials

• courts were located in Britain and defendants were required to pay for travel

• The courts were run by British appointed judges and did not involve juries

• colonists did not believe that they should be prosecuted by the same courts as British criminals

The Stamp Act was

• part of England's plan to create a more centralized imperial system in America.

• barely passed by a divided Parliament deeply concerned about American opposition

• problematic because it bore heavily on the poorest colonists and exempted the rich

• supported by Benjamin Franklin and other prominent colonial leaders as a reasonable tax.

How did the British respond to the cry of "no taxation without representation"?

• pursued a stricter enforcement of the Stamp Act

• They passed the Revenue Act to replace the Stamp Act

• Politicians argued that the colonists had virtual representation

• They suggested that Americans had representation through their own colonial legislatures.

The Quartering Act, passed at the same time as the Stamp Act required

• Americans to vacate their houses or take in British troops on the demand of any commander.

• colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British soldiers sent to American to protect them

• that treasonous Americans be hanged and "quartered" that is, cut into four pieces by the hangman

• that collectors of the Stamp Tax receive a commission of one quarter of the revenue they took in.

Which statement best describes the Stamp Act Congress which was held in New York in 1765?

• The Congress was a failure because the nine colonies represented could not agree on a unified policy

• The delegates protested loss of American liberties and challenged the act's constitutionality

• Congressional delegates formulated a set of resolves that threatened rebellion against Britain

• The group issued a statement that accepted the constitutionality of the Sugar Act, but not the Stamp Act

What factors motivated many merchants, artisans, and journeymen to protest against the Stamp Act?

• widespread wage cuts and price increases

• Fear that their personal liberty would be undermined

• Their desire to create an American democracy

• Religious fervor stimulated by the Great Awakening