Question Bank for Grade 11 Social Studies

Which of the following actions best illustrates the policy of Salutary Neglect?

• The lack of enforcement of the Navigation Acts prior to 1763

• A creation of royal colonies such as the Carolinas

• the lack of interference with the indigenous populations west of the Appalachians prior to 1763

• The use of vice admiralty courts to prosecute smugglers

Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)?

• the closing of Boston Harbor

• the establishment of martial law in the colonies

• the creation of colonial-controlled legislatures

• the quartering of British troops by colonists

Soame Jenyns The Objections to the taxation consider'd 1765

The right of the Legislature of Great-Britain to impose taxes on her American Colonies, and the expedicocy of exerting that right in the present conjuncture, are propositions so indisputably clear, that I should never have thought it necessary to have undertaken their defense, had not many arguments been lately flung out, both in papers and conversation, which with insolence equal to their absurdity deny them both. As these are usually mixt up with several patriotic and favorite words such as Liberty, Property, Englishmen, etc....

I am well aware, that I shall hear Locke, Sidney, Selden, and many other great names quoted to prove that every Englishman, whether he has a right to vote for a representative, or not, is still represented in the British Parliament; in which opinion they all agree...

If the towns of Manchester and Birmingham sending no representatives to parliament, are notwithstanding there represented, why are not the cities of Albany and Boston equally represented in that assembly? Are they not alike British subjects? are they not Englishmen? or are they only Englishmen when they solicit for protection, but not Englishmen when taxes are required to enable this country to protect them?

Question:

The notion of “virtual representation alluded to in this passage is best defined as which of the following?

• The British government represents all citizens regardless of their actual representation in Parliament

• Although slaves lack the right to vote, they need to be considered when conducting an official government census.

• Only those males who own land can rightly participate in government and vote

• All British subjects have the right to representation and a jury trial.

The purpose of the Declaratory Act was to

• require that colonists provide housing and board to British troops

• create a new tax on sugar and molasses from the French West Indies

• establish a tax on household goods such as lead, paint, tea, and glass

• state that the British government had the authority to create laws without colonial representation

What is this image most closely associated with?

• Albany Congress of 1754

• Sons and Daughters of Liberty

• Committees of Correspondence

• Shay's Rebellion

The main purpose of the Albany Congress of 1754 was to

• draw up a treaty with the Native Americans to create a defensive plan to repel attacks from the French

• protest restrictions on western settlements put in place by the British Parliament

• develop common defensive measures against the Spanish after they acquired lands west of the Appalachian Mountains from France

• establish a strong governing body that would replace parliamentary control of the colonies

Writs of assistance refer to

• general search warrants

• requirements to house and feed soldiers

• stamps that proved taxes were paid on goods

• agreements to serve for the common defense of the colonies

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Question:

Which topic would most likely be discussed at this meeting?

• Education in the colonies

• primogeniture (inheritance) laws

• Approval of British elections

• Boycott of British merchants

Result of the French and Indian War

· Proclamation of 1763

· Sugar and Stamp Acts

· Increased British military presence in America

What effect did these results have on American colonists?

• Growing opposition to the war

• Growing feelings of rebellion against the British

• Improved relations with British leaders

• Widespread treaties with Native Americans

The primary focus in America that led to conflict between France and England in 1754 was:

• the effort by British Americans to seize East Florida from France's long-time ally, Spain.

• control over the fishing resources of the Grand Banks near the province of Newfoundland

• disputes between Catholic settlers in Quebec and Congregationalists in New England

• the vast and wealthy region west of the Appalachian Mountains along the Ohio River