HIST 1301
During the winter of 1778, Washington's army endured severe shortages of food and clothing while camped at
Valley Forge.
Germantown.
Trenton.
Princeton.

On the same day it repealed the Stamp Act, Parliament passed the ________ Act stating that the colonies were "subordinate" to its wishes.
Sovereignty
Supremacy
Townshend
Declaratory

The United States' most valuable ally in the Revolution was
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Spain.
France.
Holland.
Germany.

In January 1776, the British pushed the colonists toward independence by hiring ________ mercenaries.
Hessian
Swiss
Prussian
Bavarian

Customer: 
A fundamental goal of mercantilism was to
obtain raw materials from the mother country rather than from its colonies.
eliminate obstacles to free trade.
acquire raw materials from the colonies and have the colonies import manufactured goods from the mother country.
import manufactured goods from colonies because of their cheap labor supply.
 
The 1768 document which criticized the Townshend Acts as infringements on the natural and constitutional rights of the colonists was the
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Declaration of Rights and Grievances.
Virginia "Resolves."
Massachusetts "Circular Letter."
Olive Branch Petition.

Customer:
In an effort to help support the increased cost of colonial administration, Parliament passed the ________ Act in 1764, placing tariffs on coffee, wines, and other major imports.
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Tea
Sugar
Grenville
Declaratory

Customer:
Which of the following statements about British restrictions on colonial manufacturing is true?
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The Iron Act of 1750 decimated the American iron industry.
The primary purpose of the Wool Act was to halt the prosperous American wool industry.
British restrictions on hat manufacturing had enormous consequences on the colonial economy.
Besides restrictions on wool, hats, and iron, no other restrictions on colonial manufacturing were imposed.

Customer:
As a general, George Washington?
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was a marvelous tactician, like Caesar.
failed miserably.
lacked genius but was a remarkable organizer and administrator.
was a brilliant strategist, like Napoleon.

Customer:
In the new state governments created during the Revolution, power was concentrated in the
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governors.
courts.
executive councils.
legislatures.

Customer:
During the Revolutionary War, the new constitution of ________ replaced the office of governor with an elected council of twelve members.
Answer
South Carolina
Pennsylvania
New York
Massachusetts

Customer:
 
The purpose of the British army's march on Concord, Massachusetts, in April 1775 was to
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train their troops for what appeared to be inevitable war.
force Massachusetts leaders to pay for the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party.
track down the persons responsible for burning the Gaspee.
seize the war supplies stored there.

America's most famous Enlightenment figure, inventor of the lightning rod and bifocals, organizer of a hospital and a circulating library, was
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Thomas Jefferson.
David Rittenhouse.
Cotton Mather.
Benjamin Franklin.

Customer:
The first major battle of the Revolutionary War was the Battle of
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Concord.
Valley Forge.
Lexington.
Bunker Hill.

Customer: 
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.-That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." The above statement was a part of
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a Quaker pamphlet denouncing slavery.
Jefferson's general statement of the right of revolution.
an early petition by the South Carolina assembly demanding an end to the slave trade.
Thomas Paine's Common Sense.

Customer:
In 1763 the Ottawa chief, ________, led one last effort to drive the whites back across the Appalachians.
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Corn Planter
Opechancanough
Black Hawk
Pontiac

Customer:
In May 1775 shortly after it convened, the Second Continental Congress
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declared independence from Great Britain because of the battles at Lexington and Concord.
formed the Continental Army under the leadership of George Washington.
organized the Continental Association to force England to repeal the Intolerable Acts.
refused to take any action that might be seen as disloyal to England.

Customer:
Which of the following most accurately describes the English government's position on the meaning of sovereignty?
Parliament was sovereign over the external affairs of the colonies; the crown was sovereign over Parliament and the colonies' internal affairs.
Sovereignty was indivisible and rested ultimately with Parliament.
Parliament was sovereign over the colonies' external affairs; the colonial legislatures were sovereign over their internal affairs.
Sovereignty was indivisible and rested ultimately with the colonial legislatures.

In practice, the British mercantile system worked so that the
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colonies' interests predominated over those of the mother country.
mother country's interests predominated over those of the colonies.
colonies and mother country were equal partners, sharing a general imperial interest.
interests of the northern colonies were favored over the southern colonies.

Customer: 
The United States received very favorable terms in the Peace of Paris (1783) because the
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American commissioners skillfully played rival European powers against each other.
French insisted that the United States must be a powerful nation.
rioting and looting in Great Britain by irate citizens convinced Great Britain that she must end the war immediately.
Spanish and French threatened to attack British shipping if they did not agree to American terms

Customer:
In response to the Boston Tea Party, the British passed a series of laws which, among other things, closed the port of Boston and strengthened the power of the governor of Massachusetts. In the colonies, these acts were known as the ________ Acts.
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Intolerable
Suffolk
Royal Brute
Supremacy

Customer:
Americans were most alarmed by the Sugar Act of 1764 because it
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could be used to stop colonial trade altogether.
deprived them of their right to participate in the sugar trade.
opened up colonial trade in sugar to the vessels of France and Spain.
asserted Parliament's right to tax Americans for revenue purposes.

Customer:
In comparing the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 with the system by which Great Britain governed her colonies, it would be most accurate to say that the British system was
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adopted in its entirety as the permanent form of government for the territories.
rejected completely in favor of immediate statehood for the territories because of the injustices the colonies experienced.
adopted for the intermediate stage of territorial development, which would give way to statehood in the third stage.
adopted only for the initial stage of territorial development.

Customer:
The British defeat at Yorktown resulted largely from the
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inability of the British to persuade Tories to join them.
French fleet winning control of Chesapeake Bay and preventing Cornwallis from escaping from the peninsula by sea.
ability of Washington to outmaneuver Cornwallis' much larger army and force him to retreat to the peninsula.
failure of Cornwallis to receive General Clinton's orders to withdraw.

Customer: 
A key contribution to American political thinking was the Enlightenment ideas of John Locke relating to
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personal property.
religion.
mercantilism.
philosophy.

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