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US History
Road to Revolution, 1763-1775
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When did the British East India Tea Company face bankruptcy? | In 1773 |
| Who believed the British were using the low prices to trick them into paying the tea duty? | The Colonists |
| What did The Tea Act renew? | The Colonists' Resentment toward the Parliment |
| Who took a different approach to prevent the British ships from landing their cargoes? | The Citizens of Boston |
| Who believed that it threatened the existence of a civil society? | The people who condemned the rebellious action in Boston |
| What happened when the British authorities found out that news of the Boston Tea Party reached London? | They became Furious |
| In what year did the Parliment enact four laws, collectivly known as the "Coercive Acts"? | In 1774 |
| What was the Boston Port Act? | IT closed the city's harbor to all commercial traffic until the East India Company was paid for the destroyed tea |
| What was the Administration of Justice Act? | It Transferred legal cases involving royal official charged with capital crimes to Great Britian, where many colonists believed they would be set free |
| What was the Massachusetts Government Act? | It increased the governer's powers,decreased the authority of the local town meetings, and made elective offices subject to royal appointment |
| What was the Quartering Act? | It was applied to all American colonies, required citizens to house British soldiers when other living quarters proved inadequate |
| What was not considered part of the Coercive Acts? | The Quebuc Act |
| Who did Lord North consider to be seperate from the colonies and why? | Massachusetts, and as Punishment for the Boston Tea Party |
| What did the American Revolution generate? | Radical changes in the Principles, Opinion, and Sentiments of the American People |
| Who believed thatprogress was related to human reason unlocking the secrets of the natural world? | Many Eighteenth-century Intellectuals |
| What was the Doctrines of Deism? | A religous outgrowth of the enlightenment |
| Which British philosopher wrote TWO TREATISIS of GOVERNMENT? | John Locke |
| What did John Locke believe? | That a government with great power would be tempted to use its authority to control individuals |
| What did the Second Treatise of Government by John Locke state? | "The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth." |
| Who incorperated many of John Lockes' principles into the Declaration of Independence? | Thomas Jefferson |
| What was stated in the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson? | "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." |
| What followed the French and Indian war? | Many of Parliment's decisions to control the colonists through taxes and trade regulations produced waves of discontent in America |
| Why did Samuel Adams create a committee of correspondence in Massachusetts to publicize colonial complaints against the British? | To recharge the opposition to England |
| When did colonists continue to proclaim their loyalty to the Crown? | As late as January 1776, months before independence was declared |
| What was unthinkable to the Loyalists? | The thought of severing economic and political relations with Great Britian |
| Who credited with influencing the colonists' decision to seek independence from British rule? | Thomas Paine |
| What did Thomas Paine declare King George III? | "A ROYAL BRUTE" |
| What called for an end to the colonists' political wavering over British rule and promoted the concept of an American republic where free citizens, not a monarch, were in control? | Common Sense |
| Within months of its release, 150,000 copies of what were circulated throughout the colonies? | COMMON SENSE |
| What did Thomas Paine call for? | He called to create a democratic republic resonated with a growing number of colonists |
| Mainly what class of colonists, wanted to end hereditary aristocracy without dismantling the social hierarchy? | Primaraly those in Higher Classes |
| As the leaders of the American colonies fought for independence from Great Britain, the focus of what broadened to include social reforms? | Attention |
| What did the Declaration of Independence state? | That all men were created equal, but the new state legislatures frequqntly fell short of supporting this sentiment |
| How did Americans often highlight the moral wrong of slavery ? | By complaining of Parliment's attemps to make "Slave" of them, although many founding fathers, notably George washington and Thomas Jefferson, were slaveholders themselves |
| By the early what, did all the northern states barr slavery, and the federal government prohibited the further importation of slaves? | The 1800's |
| What was prevalent throughout America during this period, and many states-North and South- enacted laws restricting the rights of African- Americans, whether they were free men and women or slaves? | Racism |
| The American Revolution also presented the oppertunity for lawmakers to protect what? | Religous freedom, and augment the seperation of church and state |
| Where did Thomas Jefferson lead the fight to expand the seperation of church and state? | In Virginia |
| What did the Statute of Religious Freedom state? | "Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions,any more than our opinions in physics or geometry" |
| What did the Revolution also shed light on? | The Nascent Movement |
| Why did Abigail Adams not agree with her husband? | She considered the Revolution to be the perfect catalyst to win political freedom from England and equal rights for American women |
| The social status of whom, however, did not remain static? | Women |
| The important "Republic Motherhood" responsibility created more educational opportunities for who? | Women |
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