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WorksheetsChapters 4 and 5 AMSCO: Imperial Wars to Confederation
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 17mins
We apprehend that as freemen and English subjects, we have an indisputable title to the same privileges and immunities with His Majesty's other subjects who reside in the interior counties ... , and therefore ought not to be excluded from an equal share with them in the very important privilege of legislation .... We cannot but observe with sorrow and indignation that some persons in this province are at pains to extenuate the barbarous cruelties practised by these savages on our murdered brethren and relatives ... by this means the Indians have been taught to despise us as a weak and disunited people, and from this fatal source have arisen many of our calamities .... We humbly pray therefore that this grievance may be redressed."
-The Paxton Boys, to the Pennsylvania Assembly, "A Remonstrance of Distressed and Bleeding Frontier Inhabitants," 1764
The protests by the Paxton Boys occurred during a period when many colonists were objecting to British policies that were a result of the
Albany Plan of Union
Great Awakening
Seven Years' War
Enlightenment
The concern expressed in this excerpt helps explain why the British passed the
Peace of Paris
Proclamation of 1763
Quartering Act
Port Act
Which of the following leaders from an earlier period represented a group in a similar situation as cited in this excerpt?
Edmond Andros
Nathaniel Bacon
John Smith
Roger Williams
"It is inseparably essential to the freedom of a People, and the undoubted Right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them, but with their own Consent, given personally, or by their representatives .... That it is the indispensable duty of these colonies, to the best of sovereigns ... to procure the repeal of the act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, of all clauses of any other acts of Parliament ... for the restriction of American commerce."
-Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, 1765
The resolution of the Stamp Act Congress expressed respect for which person or group?
Colonial merchants.
The King.
Leaders in Parliament.
Residents of England
For the first time, the Stamp Act placed on the colonies a tax that was
Indirect
Direct
To regulate trade.
To support a church.
Which of the following was a direct British response to the colonial views expressed by the Stamp Act Congress?
Quartering Act for British soldiers.
Sugar Act taxing luxuries.
Coercive Act closing the port of Boston.
Declaratory Act stating the right to tax.
"The unhappy disputes between Great Britain and her American colonies ... have proceeded to lengths so dangerous and alarming as to excite just apprehensions in the minds of His Majesty's faithful subjects of this colony .... "It cannot admit of a doubt but that British subjects in America are entitled to the same rights and privileges as their fellow subjects possess in Britain; and therefore, that the power assumed by the British Parliament to bind America by their statutes in all cases whatsoever is unconstitutional, and the source of these unhappy differences .... "To obtain a redress of these grievances, without which the people of America can neither be safe, free, nor happy, they are willing to undergo the great inconvenience that will be derived to them from stopping all imports whatsoever from Great Britain."
-Instructions to the Virginia Delegates to the First Continental Congress, Williamsburg, 1774
Which of the following actions by the colonists is most similar to the one recommended in the excerpt above?
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Tea Party
The formation of the Committees of Correspondence
The distribution of the Massachusetts Circular Letter
Which of the following is the underlying goal of the colonists in the excerpt?
Win political representation.
Declare independence.
Promote free trade.
Reduce the overall level of taxes.
"The authors and promoters of this desperate conspiracy have ... meant only to amuse, by vague expressions of attachment to the parent state, and the strongest protestations of loyalty to me, whilst they were preparing for a general revolt. ... The resolutions of Parliament breathed a spirit of moderation and forbearance; conciliatory propositions accompanied the measures taken to enforce authority .... I have acted with the same temper, anxious to prevent, if it had been possible ... the calamities which are inseparable from a state of war; still hoping that my people in America would have discerned the traitorous views of their leaders, and have been convinced, that to be a subject of Great Britain, with all its consequences, is to be the freest member of any civil society in the known world." -King George III, Speech to Parliament, October 27, 1775
King George's rejection of the Olive Branch Petition demonstrates that he believed that most colonists
Were personally loyal to him.
Blamed Parliament for their problems.
Had always planned to revolt.
Failed to understand his policies.
Which of the following documents most forcefully disagreed with the views King George expressed in this excerpt?
Galloway's plan for a union of colonies.
Declaration and Resolves.
Olive Branch Petition.
Common Sense by Thomas Paine.
Which of the following groups or individuals would have been most likely to agree with King George?
Continentals
Loyalists
John Dickenson
Thomas Paine
"A Declaration of Rights made by the representatives of the good people of Virginia ...
Section 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights ....
Section 2. That all power is vested in and consequently derived from, the people ....
Section 4. That no man, or set of men, is entitled to exclusive or separate ... privileges from the community ....
Section 5. That the legislative and executive powers of the state should be separate and distinct from the judiciary .... Section 6. That elections of members ... as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with and attachment to the community, have the right of suffrage ....
Section 12. That freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty ....
Section 16. All men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion." -Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776
In the context of the various disputes between the colonists and Britain, which of the following would be the most important right cited?
Section 1: all people are by nature free.
Section 2: all power comes from the people.
Section 4: no person has special privileges.
Section 16: people should be able to worship freely.
Which of the rights in the excerpt is expressed in a way that would today be considered a limitation of individual rights?
Section 5: separation of government powers.
Section 2: origins of governmental power.
Section 6: right to vote.
Section 12: freedom of the press.
Which of the rights in the excerpt is expressed in a way that would today be considered a limitation of individual rights?
Section 5: separation of government powers.
Section 2: origins of governmental power.
Section 6: right to vote.
Section 12: freedom of the press.
The group most likely to oppose the ideas expressed in this excerpt would have been
Minutemen of Lexington.
Advocates of a unicameral legislature.
Tories such as William Franklin.
Supporters of Shays's Rebellion.
"I have not the least doubt that the Negroes will make very excellent soldiers, with proper management. ... "I foresee that this project will have to combat much opposition from prejudice and self-interest. The contempt we have been taught to entertain for the black makes us fancy many things that are founded neither in reason nor experience; and an unwillingness to part with property of so valuable a kind will furnish a thousand arguments to show the impracticability or pernicious tendency of a scheme which requires such a sacrifice. But it should be considered that if we do not make use of them in this way, the enemy probably will .... An essential part of the plan is to give them their freedom with their muskets." -Alexander Hamilton, "A Proposal to Arm and Then Free the Negroes," 1779
For some the Revolutionary War was also a civil war because of the role played in the war by the
American Indians
African Americans
Quakers
Tories
Which of the following was the primary reason for Hamilton's call for African American soldiers?
The New York militia was short of troops.
The British were recruiting African Americans.
The Declaration of Independence called for equal rights.
General Washington trusted that blacks would make good soldiers.
