Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Who was Governor Hutchinson?
a. | Governor of
Pennsylvania | c. | Governor of New
York | b. | Governor of Massachusetts | d. | Governor of Maryland |
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Which three European powers had
influence in America prior to the revolution?
a. | England, France and
Holland | c. | England, France
and Holland | b. | England, Holland, and Spain | d. | England, France and Spain |
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Who sent a secret letter to the
King of England requesting troops be sent to the colonies to keep order
a. | Benjamin
Franklin | c. | George
Washington | b. | Governor Hutchinson | d. | Thomas Paine |
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What was the
main reason Americans hated the
Stamp Act and the Declaratory Act?
a. | Americans just hated
everything | c. | Americans did not
think they should pay any taxes | b. | Colonists resented having to declare their
stamps | d. | Americans were not treated at equals by the
British |
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On the eve of the revolution
most Americans were _____ .
a. | factory
workers | c. | government
employees | b. | farmers | d. | living in cities |
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What was the stamp
act?
a. | Provided for a tax on American
documents of all kinds | c. | British outlawed
revolutionary newspapers | b. | All passports had to have a British stamp | d. | Provided for a tax on American
stamps |
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Why did the British send troops
to America?
a. | To assert the authority of the
colonists. | c. | To assert the
authority of the King of England | b. | Fight the Indians | d. | Fight the French |
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What did the British finally do
about the stamp act?
a. | increased
it | c. | applied it only to poor
people | b. | repealed it | d. | applied it only to rich people |
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At the beginnings of the
American Revolution _____ .
a. | Americans had a grand master
plan | c. | Americans did not care about
politics | b. | Americans did not know where it would lead | d. | Americans favored allegiance with
Spain |
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10.
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What was the trade relationship
between England and the U.S. in the colonial period?
a. | Colonies shipped raw materials to
England and imported finished products | c. | The colonies bought few goods from England | b. | England shipped raw materials to the colonies and imported
finished products | d. | Most English clothing was
manufactured in the colonies to take advantage of cheaper
labor |
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Why did Franklin turn from a
British supporter to a revolutionary?
a. | Preferred Queen Elizabeth over King
George | c. | British refused to recognize that he
was a scientist who discovered electricity | b. | Shoddy treatment of the colonies by
Britian | d. | Make more money in his printing
business |
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Before the revolution most
Englishmen viewed Americans _____
a. | as
equals | c. | as
enemies | b. | as mentors | d. | as inferior |
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What did the Americans resent
most about the Stamp Act?
a. | It insulted the pride of
Americans | c. | The tax was too
high | b. | It mainly taxed poor people | d. | It mainly taxed rich people |
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Most colonists considered
themselves Englishmen, and _____ .
a. | loyal to the
king | c. | more loyal to the king of
France | b. | did not consider themselves Englishmen | d. | but disloyal to the king |
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What was the Declaratory
Act?
a. | Said colonies were declared free
from English rule | c. | Said that the
colonies were free to legislate (make laws) for themselves | b. | This act asserted Parliament’s right to legislate
(make laws) for the colonies in all cases whatsoever | d. | Said Americans had to declare all income on their income tax
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John Adams was _____ president
of the U.S.
a. | first | c. | second | b. | third | d. | fourth |
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On the eve of the Revolution
the most famous American in the world was _____ .
a. | John
Hancock | c. | George
Washington | b. | Abraham Lincoln | d. | Benjamin Franklin |
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What did Americans do in
response to the stamp act?
a. | Stopped buying English
goods | c. | Tried to "stamp" out the
tax | b. | nothing | d. | Tried to get the French to help
us |
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"The power to tax is the
power to destroy" means ......
a. | If governments are able to tax
people they have more power over them. | c. | Workers in the colonies were not paid enough | b. | If individuals do not pay their taxes they will have more
money to spend | d. | If companies do not pay their taxes
they will have more money to spend |
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20.
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What was the most important
attitude or idea that Americans learned from the events that led up to to Declaration of Independence
and the Revolutionary War.
a. | Americans needed a king to
survive | c. | Ordinary people
did not need a king and could govern themselves | b. | Americans should pay their
taxes | d. | It was better to be British and alive than to be American
and be dead |
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