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SJA APUSH PERIOD 3 TEST STUDYGUIDE
Although a few were outraged by the Stamp Act, most politically active
colonists supported it. - ANSWER False
Americans did not gain much more than independence from the Treaty
of Paris of 1783. - ANSWER False
The Sons of Liberty enforced a boycott of British goods. - ANSWER
True
Homespun clothing became a symbol of American resistance during the
American boycott on British goods. - ANSWER True
The transatlantic slave trade was not a vital part of world commerce. -
ANSWER False
British soldiers were better equipped than American Continental army
soldiers. - ANSWER True
Which of the following did NOT specifically provide for direct or indirect
taxes on the colonies?
a. the Townshend Act
b. the Tea Act
c. the Declaratory Act
d. the Stamp Act
e. the Sugar Act - ANSWER c. the Declaratory Act
Virtual representation was the idea:
a. about representation that most politically active American colonists in
the 1760s and 1770s embraced
b. that only those who were elected by a given population could
represent that population in a legislative body
c. that each member of Britain's House of Commons represented the
entire empire, not just his own district
d. endorsed by the Stamp Act Congress in 1765
, e. that the king should appoint delegates to represent the colonies in the
British House of Commons - ANSWER c. that each member of Britain's
House of Commons represented the entire empire, not just his own
district
What major event first led the British government to seek ways to make
the colonies bear part of the cost of the empire?
a. King Phillip's War
b. the Boston Tea Party
c. the Declaration of Independence
d. the Seven Years' War
e. the appointment of William Pitt as British prime minister - ANSWER d.
the Seven Years' War
Why did colonists object to the Tea Act?
a. it raised the tax on tea so much as to make tea prohibitively expensive
b. because it would aid a different part of the empire than their own,
colonists felt that this was the kind of discriminatory action that violated
the concept of liberty
c. by paying it, they would be acknowledging Great Britain's right to tax
the colonists
d. it granted a monopoly, and the colonists opposed all forms of
monopoly
e. The British East India Company made inferior tea, and the colonists
preferred not to drink it - ANSWER c. by paying it, they would be
acknowledging Great Britain's right to tax the colonists.
Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense as a response to Jefferson's
Declaration of Independence. - ANSWER False
Which of the following statements regarding black soldiers during the
American Revolution is FALSE?
a. no southern state allowed blacks to serve in its militia
b. a total of approximately 5,000 African-Americans served in state
militias and in the Continental army and navy
c. Rhode Island, which had a relatively high black population for New
England, formed a black regiment
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