Chapter 4 Quiz

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

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

C  felt little loyalty to the English government.

D  consisted of colonists all approved by royal governors.

E  had claimed the right to levy taxes.

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

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

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

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

E  agreed to end colonial boycotts of British trade.

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

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

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

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

E  shocked the other colonies into isolating Massachusetts.

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

B  the American colonies were represented in Parliament.

C  the American colonies were represented by the courts.

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

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

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

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

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

D  resulted in the death of several British soldiers.

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

A  was consistent with traditional parliamentary efforts to regulate commerce.

B  actually affected only a few New England merchants.

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

D  provided much needed revenue to the American colonies.

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

A  was generally effective.

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

C  was supported by many Indian tribal groups.

D  disrupted England’s western trade in the colonies.

E  encouraged settlement of the western edge of the colonies.

A  France surrendered New Orleans and Canada to the British.

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

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

D  France ceded all of its Caribbean colonies to England.

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

A  ended King William’s War.

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

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

D  was a considerable victory for Spain in North America.

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

A  French, the colonists, and the Spanish.

B  English, the Iroquois, and the Spanish.

C  Iroquois, the English, and the French.

D  French, the Spanish, and the English.

E  colonists, the English, and the Spanish.