Revolutionary America and the New Republic Part 1

What was the professed aim of the Daughters of Liberty?

• To help repeal the Currency Act

• Protest against the Stamp Act of 1765

• Protest against the Sugar Act of 1764

• to manufacture goods as substitutes for British goods

What decision did William Pitt make that had a significant impact on events after the French and Indian War?

• He effected a treaty with the Spanish, changing the balance of war.

• He decided to pay militia from the British Treasury.

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  He decided to pay militia from the taxes raised by the colonies.

• He effected a treaty with the Iroquois, changing the balance of war.

Which colony did NOT send any representatives to the Albany Congress?

• Virginia

• Connecticut

• New Hampsire

• Massachusetts

Why was America’s victory at Yorktown among the most significant battles of the American Revolution?

• It forced colonists who had so far remained neutral to pick a side and enlist in the war.

• It helped the Continental Army remove all British barracks from New Jersey.

• It made the British realize they were fighting a lost cause and soon after, they conceded the war.

• It helped secure France’s military and financial aid for the American cause.

During the American Revolution, why did many African-American slaves fight for the British and against the colonists?

• The British assured African-American slaves passage to Africa if they aided the British against the colonists.

• The British guaranteed African-American slaves that they would be liberated if they fought on the side of the British during the Revolution

• African-American slaves defected to the British after their “masters” forced them to serve in separate “black” regiments in the Continental Army.

• African-American slaves sided with the British because the colonists had excluded slave rights from the Declaration of Independence and the Paris Peace Treaty.

Why did Parliament believe the colonists would accept the Tea Act of 1773?

• This act substantially lowered the price of tea sold in the colonies.

• The colonial assemblies would collect the revenues raised by this act.

• The revenues raised by this act would go toward the defense of the colonies.

• Revenues raised by this act would go toward paying royal governors’ salaries.

What was the first act that the Parliament passed in an attempt to raise revenue by taxing the American colonists?

• The Revenue Act: taxed goods such as paper and paint that the colonies imported from Britain

• The Declaratory Act: stated that the Parliament had the absolute right to impose taxes on the colonists

• The Stamp Act: mandated that colonists affix stamps to certain legal and commercial documents

• The Sugar Act: increased the duties on sugar imported from the West Indies

How did the Federalists secure support for the new constitution?

• They explained how multiple factions in a large republic would restrain the federal government from autocratic rule.

• They explained why it was necessary to keep the states subservient to the federal government.

• They explained how equal voting rights for small states in the Senate would protect them from domination by large states.

  
  

• They explained how the creation of a federal judiciary would improve inter- state trade.

What was a key reason for the post-war cash crunch in America?

• decline in the American manufacturing industry

• France’s demand for repayment of America’s war debt

• rising trade imbalance with Britain

• rising inflation and unemployment

Why was a convention convened at Annapolis in 1786?

• to discuss Shays’s Rebellion in Massachusetts

• to discuss the Spanish ban on trade along the Mississippi

• to discuss a settlement plan for the Northwest

• to discuss interstate commerce