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Question 31

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The Boston Tea Party of December 1773

A) frightened both sides in the conflict and triggered a year of relative peace.
B) took place in response to Boston's turning away of several British merchant ships from the harbor.
C) shocked the other colonies into isolating Massachusetts.
D) triggered acts of resistance in other colonial cities and took place after Bostonians failed to turn away ships laden with tea.
E) took place after Bostonians failed to turn away ships laden with tea and shocked the other colonies into isolating Massachusetts.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

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Taverns were important in the growth of revolutionary sentiment because

A) they were the only public places where one could legally speak without fear of arrest.
B) they become central meeting places to discuss ideas about resistance.
C) the tavern was one of the few places where men and women gathered together to speak.
D) colonists increasingly resented the heavy British duties on alcohol.
E) All these answers are correct.

F) C) and E)
G) B) and E)

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The conflict between England and America was made insoluble because of a basic difference of opinion over the nature of ________.

In their competition for the allegiance of native tribes,the English could offer more and better goods than the French.

Trace the course and nature of colonial objections to British policies between 1763 and 1775.

The Treaty of Utrecht (1713)signaled a rare French victory over the English.

The Coercive Acts were first a response to the Boston Massacre.

The ________ Act granted political rights to Roman Catholics.

The parliamentary attempt to restrict westward movement following the Seven Years' War was called the ________.

During the first half of the eighteenth century,royal officials in America

In 1770 Prime Minister Lord North repealed all of the ________ except the tax on tea.

Was the American Revolution avoidable? What did the British government do that inadvertently encouraged colonial rebellion?

In the eighteenth century,the English constitution was

Select any four acts of Parliament and explain their effect on the colonies and the nature of the colonial objection to each.

Following the Seven Years' War,the British government faced huge problems of imperial organization but had ample funds to deal with those problems.

Many colonists believed the legislation passed by the Grenville ministry in 1764-1765

The first clash of the French and Indian War took place near what is now

Parliament and the colonial legislatures did not always see eye to eye,but at least they shared a similar understanding about the nature of representative government.

Despite the flurry of parliamentary legislation after 1763,most colonists found ways either to live with or to get around these laws.

The Boston Massacre was followed by three years of relative peace and quiet.