HIST EXAM 2

How did the French and Indian War lead to the American Revolution?

• it put Britain in even more debt which required increased taxes.

• the Americans felt put down by the British throughout the war even though they were allies.

• Britain began to rein in some of the evasion of British law that was common in the colonies.

• All of the above. 

What was the colonists underlying gripe against British taxation?

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• It was really a question of political control and autonomy.

Who was one of the major leaders of the sons of liberty?

• your mom

• John Adams

• Sam Adams

• Sonic the Hedgehog

What brought about the Boston Massacre?

• Civil Unrest

• All the other answers are correct.

• Townshend Acts

• soldiers taking civilian jobs

How much did the participants in the Boston Tea Party know about each other?

• It wasn't mentioned at all.

• George Hewes knew all but others didn't know anything else.

• It was common knowledge about who participated and who didn't.

• They had an intricate web of people that they were sworn to secrecy to keep.

• They knew next to nothing about each other, not even who all were participating.

Why did Johnathan Edwards focus on God's wrath and grace in preaching to the people during the Age of Enlightenment?

• To help the people see how loving and kind God is.

• Because those scientists need all the help that they can get owing to the fact that they were all a bunch of unbelievers.

• To show the connection between science and religion.

• To push forward the theory of Universal Salvation.

• To counter the notion that natural laws govern the earth and therefore God was either not actively engaged in running the earth, or simply did not exist.

What happened to Captain O'Conner when he tried to take some of the tea home?

• He was forced to give up his boat and then give up his profession entirely as a punishment for his desire to try and take some of the tea.

• He was thrown in the stocks for two days.

• He was forced to make a public apology.

• He was turned into a newt by Hermione Granger and never returned back to his former self.

• He was apprehended but escaped while leaving behind his tea filled jacket which the others then nailed to the whipping post with a note explaining why it was nailed there.

How many truths does Thomas Jefferson identify?

• 5

• 3

• 7

• 6

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According to George Hewes, what happened when some of the citizens of Boston discovered that some of the crates of tea were floating unharmed in the harbor after the Boston Tea Party?

• They used it as target practice for their cannons.

• They got a giant wooden spoon and mixed up the entire bay up into a big cup of salty tea.

• They took boats to where the tea was and beat it with oars until it was all saturated with water.

• They rowed out to the tea and confiscated it "in the name of the colony of Massachusetts.

• They just let it be because it was just a "little bit of tea."

___ in every state is a blessing but ___, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil.

• Politics, War

• Cheese, Olives 

• Society, Government

• Government, Capitalism

• Capitalism, Communism