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american revolution (in progress) Test

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5 Matching Questions

  1. New lights
  2. Stamp Act
  3. thomas paine's "common sense"
  4. Declaratory Act
  5. Sugar Act
  1. a Parliament, believing they had the right to tax colonists, forced Americans to purchase stamps to validate legal documents. It was the first direct tax on the colonists themselves rather than ones paid by the merchants in colonial ports. The stamp act congress was called and agreed that taxes needed the consent of the people before being imposed
  2. b Act that labeled the colonies as a source of revenue; the duty on molasses was reduced to give colonists little means to bribe customs officials. Protest was confined to people who had interest in commerce or assembly members, who thought parliament could not tax british subjects without them having a say.
  3. c Traveling preachers who did not value the need for congregation or church; practiced dramatic, unscripted preaching; your personal relationship with god was all that mattered. Attacked OL's as elitist and attacked authority in general. rejected the laws of the established church and did not emphasize human sinfulness or damnation
  4. d argued:
    - It was unreasonable to view england as the mother country, since colonists had come from all across Europe
    - Attacked the King's arbitrary behavior
  5. e passed after the retreat on the stamp act, declared that parliament was supreme over the colonists (did nothing)

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. They moved along the Western frontier of Pennsylvania, squatting on whatever land looked best to them. Discriminated in their "homeland". Which group of immigrants does this characterize?
  2. Traveled to Pennsylvania in search of religious toleration but later to better their material lives. Accommodated to new social conditions. Which group of immigrants does this characterize?
  3. prohibited & blockaded american commerce
  4. Colonists loyal to the british, they were the "biggest losers" of the revolutionary war. In britain, they were treated as second-class citizens, and in america, rebel retaliation and mistrust from british regulars were problems. they believed independence would promote disorder
  5. Attacked formal learning and established ministers

5 True/False Questions

  1. second continental congressconsisted of moderates vs advocates of independence;
    waited until popular support was gained before declaring independence, and named washington the head of the continental army.

          

  2. John Lockephilosopher who claimed that all people possessed inalienable rights. free men formed contracts to preserve these god-given rights, and these were created by the people who were governed. rebellion against unreasonable, arbitrary forms of government that failed to protect those rights was justified.

          

  3. Old LightsTraveling preachers who did not value the need for congregation or church; practiced dramatic, unscripted preaching; your personal relationship with god was all that mattered. Attacked OL's as elitist and attacked authority in general. rejected the laws of the established church and did not emphasize human sinfulness or damnation

          

  4. natural reproductionParliamentary sovereignty is the bedrock of this unwritten doctrine

          

  5. first continental congressconsisted of moderates vs advocates of independence;
    waited until popular support was gained before declaring independence, and named washington the head of the continental army.