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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A felt little loyalty to the English government.
B had claimed the right to levy taxes.
C were petitioning the king to charter new colonies to the west.
D existed only to implement the policies of the English Parliament.
E consisted of colonists all approved by royal governors.
Question #2
A called for the repeal of all oppressive legislation passed since 1763.
B agreed to end colonial boycotts of British trade.
C accepted a plan for a colonial union under British authority.
D issued an order for the arrest of all colonists loyal to the king.
E proposed that the colonies tax themselves at Parliament’s demand.
Question #3
A took place in response to Boston’s turning away of several British merchant ships from the harbor.
B triggered acts of resistance in other colonial cities and took place after Bostonians failed to turn away ships laden with tea.
C took place after Bostonians failed to turn away ships laden with tea and shocked the other colonies into isolating Massachusetts.
D shocked the other colonies into isolating Massachusetts.
E frightened both sides in the conflict and triggered a year of relative peace.
Question #4
A the American colonies were represented in Parliament.
B the American colonies had no claim to any political representation.
C each American colony was allowed one non-voting representative in Parliament.
D the American colonies were represented by the courts.
E the king spoke to Parliament on behalf of the American colonies.
Question #5
A led to Paul Revere’s midnight ride of warning.
B was transformed by some colonists into a symbol of British oppression.
C resulted in the death of several British soldiers.
D included a trial in which British soldiers were convicted of murder.
E turned Paul Revere into a martyr for the cause of colonial independence.
Question #6
A provided much needed revenue to the American colonies.
B required the consent of the colonial assemblies before going into effect.
C helped to unite the colonies in opposition to the English government.
D was consistent with traditional parliamentary efforts to regulate commerce.
E actually affected only a few New England merchants.
Question #7
A was supported by many Indian tribal groups.
B disrupted England’s western trade in the colonies.
C led to renewed conflict with the remaining French colonists in the West.
D was generally effective.
E encouraged settlement of the western edge of the colonies.
Question #8
A France surrendered New Orleans and Canada to the British.
B France ceded all of its Caribbean colonies to England.
C France ceded Canada and all of its claims to land east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans, to Great Britain.
D France agreed to pay England for the cost of the war.
E England acquired all French naval vessels docked in North American ports.
Question #9
A slowed England’s western expansion of its American colonies.
B transferred territory from the English to the French in the Caribbean.
C was a considerable victory for Spain in North America.
D ended King William’s War.
E transferred territory from the French to the English in North America.
Question #10
A colonists, the English, and the Spanish.
B French, the Spanish, and the English.
C Iroquois, the English, and the French.
D French, the colonists, and the Spanish.
E English, the Iroquois, and the Spanish.