ACE Practice Test Assessment

Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution

 

1.      The republican idea of a just society in which selfish interests were subordinated to the common good took deep root in Britain's North American colonies.

A. True      B. False

 

2.      The theory of mercantilism held that colonies existed primarily to provide the mother country with raw materials as well as a market for exports.

A. True      B. False

 

3.      British mercantilism forbade the importation of any non-British goods into the colonies.

A. True      B. False

 

4.      In practice, British mercantilism provided the colonies with substantial economic benefits such as military protection and guaranteed markets for certain goods.

A. True      B. False

 

5.      The fundamental motive behind the steep new taxes in the 1760s was to repay the large debt that Britain had incurred in defending its North American colonies.

A. True      B. False,

 

6.      Americans generally accepted the right of Parliament to tax the colonies to provide money for defense but denied its right to legislate about colonial affairs.

A. True      B. False

 

7.      When Americans first cried "no taxation without representation," what they wanted was to be represented in the British Parliament.

A. True      B. False

 

8.      The colonies finally forced repeal of the Stamp Act by organizing political protests and enforcing nonimportation agreements against British goods.

A. True      B. False

 

9.      Colonial rebellion against the new Townshend Acts was more highly organized and successful than the earlier Stamp Act protests.

A. True      B. False

 

10.  The Boston Massacre led the British government to pursue even harsher enforcement of the Townshend Acts.

A. True      B. False,

 

11.  Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson provoked a crisis in Boston by enforcing the importation of British tea even though he believed that the tea tax was unjust.

A. True      B. False   

 

12.  The colonists considered the Quebec Act especially oppressive because they thought it would extend the domain of Roman Catholicism.

A. True      B. False,         

 

13.  The First Continental Congress proclaimed that the colonies would declare independence from Britain unless their grievances were redressed.

A. True      B. False

 

14.  One fundamental American asset in the impending war with Britain was a small but well-trained professional military force.

A. True      B. False

 

15.  A key British advantage was that they did not have to defeat all the American forces but only fight to a draw in order to crush the Revolution.

A. True      B. False

 

16.  The British theory of mercantilism, by which the colonies were governed, held that

A. the economy should be shaped by market forces, without government interference.

B. the colonies should develop by becoming as economically self-sufficient as possible.

C. the colonial economy should be carefully controlled to serve the mother country's needs

D. colonists should promote economic growth by free trade with other countries.

 

17.  One of the ways in which mercantilism harmed the colonial economy was

A. by prohibiting colonial merchants from owning and operating their own ships.

B. by inhibiting the development of banking and paper currency in the colonies.

C. by forcing the colonists to fall into debt through the purchase of goods on credit.

D. by forcing Virginia tobacco planters to sell their product only in Britain.

 

18.  The mobilization of "nonimportation" policies against the Stamp Act was politically important because

A. it aroused the first French support for the American cause.

B. it aroused revolutionary fervor among many ordinary American men and women.

C. it reinforced the completely nonviolent character of the anti-British movement.

D. it helped stimulate the development of colonial manufacturing.

 

19.  The British troops killed in the Boston Massacre had been sent to the city as a result of

A. colonial protests against the Stamp Act.

B. the illegal activities of the Committees of Correspondence.

C. colonial resistance to the Quartering Act of 1787.

D. colonial resistance to the Townshend Acts' tax on tea and other products.

 

20.  The British reacted to the Boston Tea Party by

A. shipping the colonial protestors to Britain for trial.

B. closing the Port of Boston until damages were paid and order restored.

C. passing the Quebec Act prohibiting trial by jury and permitting the practice of Catholicism.

D. granting a monopoly on the sale of tea to the British East India Company.

 

21.  American colonists especially resented the Townshend Acts because

A. they strongly disliked the British minister, “Champagne Charley” Townshend, who proposed them.

B. the revenues from the taxation would go to support British officials and judges in America.

C. they called for the establishment of the Anglican church throughout the colonies.

D. the taxes were to be imposed directly by the king without an act of Parliament.

 

22.  The passage of the Quebec Act aroused intense American fears because

A. it put the French language on an equal standing with English throughout the colonies.

B. it involved stationing British troops throughout the colonies.

C. it extended Catholic jurisdiction and a non-jury judicial system into the western Ohio country.

D. it threatened to make Canada the dominant British colony in North America.         

 

23.  The most important action the Continental Congress took to protest the Intolerable Acts was

A. forming The Association to impose a complete boycott of all British goods.

B. organizing a colonial militia to prepare for military resistance.

C. forming Committees of Correspondence to communicate among all the colonies and develop political opposition to British rule.

D. sending petitions to the British Parliament demanding repeal of the laws.

 

24.  The event that precipitated the first real shooting between the British and American colonists was

A. the British attempt to seize Bunker Hill and the Old North Church.

B. the British attempt to seize colonial supplies and leaders at Lexington and Concord.

C. the Boston Tea Party.

D. the Boston Massacre.  

 

25.  The British parliamentary government at the time of the American Revolution was headed by

A. William Pitt.

B. “Champagne Charley” Townshend.

C. Edmund Burke.

D. Lord North.

 

26.  The American rebellion was especially dangerous to the British because they were also worried about

A. possible revolts in Ireland and war with France.

B. labor unrest in British industrial cities.

C. maintaining sufficient troops in India.

D. their ability to maintain naval control of the oceans.

 

27.  The British political party that was generally more sympathetic to the American cause was

A. the Tory Party.

B. the Labor Party.

C. the Country Party.

D. the Whig Party.

 

28.  One of the advantages the British enjoyed in the impending conflict with the colonies was

A. a determined and politically effective government.

B. the ability to enlist foreign soldiers, Loyalists, and Native Americans in their military forces.

C. a highly motivated and efficiently run military force in America.

D. the concentration of colonial resistance in a few urban centers.

 

29.  One of the advantages the colonists enjoyed in the impending conflict with Britain was

A. fighting defensively on a large, agriculturally self-sufficient continent.

B. a well-organized and effective political leadership.

C. a strong sense of unity among the various colonies.

D. the fact that nearly all Americans owned their own firearms.

 

30.  In the Revolutionary War, African-Americans

A. unanimously supported the American patriot cause.

B. were generally neutral between the British and American forces.

C. fought in both the American patriot and British loyalist military forces.

D. took the opportunity to stage substantial slave revolts.