Chapter 4 Quiz

A  existed only to implement the policies of the English Parliament.

B  felt little loyalty to the English government.

C  consisted of colonists all approved by royal governors.

D  were petitioning the king to charter new colonies to the west.

E  had claimed the right to levy taxes.

A  accepted a plan for a colonial union under British authority.

B  issued an order for the arrest of all colonists loyal to the king.

C  agreed to end colonial boycotts of British trade.

D  called for the repeal of all oppressive legislation passed since 1763.

E  proposed that the colonies tax themselves at Parliament’s demand.

A  took place in response to Boston’s turning away of several British merchant ships from the harbor.

B  shocked the other colonies into isolating Massachusetts.

C  triggered acts of resistance in other colonial cities and took place after Bostonians failed to turn away ships laden with tea.

D  took place after Bostonians failed to turn away ships laden with tea and shocked the other colonies into isolating Massachusetts.

E  frightened both sides in the conflict and triggered a year of relative peace.

A  each American colony was allowed one non-voting representative in Parliament.

B  the king spoke to Parliament on behalf of the American colonies.

C  the American colonies were represented in Parliament.

D  the American colonies had no claim to any political representation.

E  the American colonies were represented by the courts.

A  turned Paul Revere into a martyr for the cause of colonial independence.

B  included a trial in which British soldiers were convicted of murder.

C  resulted in the death of several British soldiers.

D  led to Paul Revere’s midnight ride of warning.

E  was transformed by some colonists into a symbol of British oppression.

A  actually affected only a few New England merchants.

B  was consistent with traditional parliamentary efforts to regulate commerce.

C  provided much needed revenue to the American colonies.

D  helped to unite the colonies in opposition to the English government.

E  required the consent of the colonial assemblies before going into effect.

A  was generally effective.

B  disrupted England’s western trade in the colonies.

C  led to renewed conflict with the remaining French colonists in the West.

D  encouraged settlement of the western edge of the colonies.

E  was supported by many Indian tribal groups.

A  France agreed to pay England for the cost of the war.

B  France ceded Canada and all of its claims to land east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans, to Great Britain.

C  France ceded all of its Caribbean colonies to England.

D  France surrendered New Orleans and Canada to the British.

E  England acquired all French naval vessels docked in North American ports.

A  ended King William’s War.

B  slowed England’s western expansion of its American colonies.

C  transferred territory from the English to the French in the Caribbean.

D  was a considerable victory for Spain in North America.

E  transferred territory from the French to the English in North America.

A  Iroquois, the English, and the French.

B  French, the colonists, and the Spanish.

C  French, the Spanish, and the English.

D  English, the Iroquois, and the Spanish.

E  colonists, the English, and the Spanish.