HIST405 Week 2 Quiz Latest 2019 January Question # 00597493 Subject: Education Due on: 01/31/2019 Posted On: 01/31/2019 04:40 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.7/5

HIST405
United States History

Week 2 Quiz

Question 1

(TCO 4) By the eighteenth century, the leading slave-trading
nation had become

England.

Spain.

Portugal.

France.

Holland.

Question 2

(TCO 4) Which group established good relations with the
Indians in order to facilitate trade?

the French

the English

the Spanish

the Scots-Irish

the Dutch

Question 3

(TCO 4) Why did British Prime Minister George Grenville
initiate a program of taxing the American colonists in 1764?

He was raising taxes
throughout the British Empire.

He saw an
opportunity to further enrich the British Empire.

He wanted to pay off
debt from the French and Indian War.

He believed that the
colonists should be taxed at a higher rate than Britons.

Question 4

(TCO 4) Why did English immigration to the colonies drop
dramatically after 1660?

The English were no
longer sought after as indentured servants.

The political
turmoil in England kept them close to home.

The English economy
improved and political and religious conflict diminished.

The English were
opposed to the growing slave trade in the colonies.

Question 5

(TCO 2) The French and Indian War was also called

King George’s War.

Seven Years’ War.

Pontiac’s Rebellion.

Pequot War.

Question 6

(TCO 2) At the First Continental Congress, delegates
represented every colony except

Georgia.

Virginia.

Rhode Island.

Massachusetts.

Question 7

(TCO 2) In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson refers
to the natural rights due to every citizen as

life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness.

independent liberty.

Paine’s freedoms.

radical power.

Question 8

(TCO 2) The Patriots would not have won the Battle of
Yorktown and the American Revolution without help from

Spanish explorers.

Germans.

the French.

Native Americans.

Question 9

(TCO 9) The Articles of Confederation created a national
government with

three branches of
government.

a president.

a bicameral
Parliament.

a congress of
delegates

Question 10

(TCO 1) The Constitution divides government power

among many different
states.

among multiple
branches of national government.

among
representatives of the people.

between state and
national government.

Question 11

(TCOs 1 and 2)
Identify and analyze major actions taken by the English Parliament during the
1760s that angered the colonists, and discuss specifically at least one act
that dealt with what the colonists viewed as unfair taxation. Then discuss the
significance to the colonists of the Tea Act and the Coercive Acts and why these
particularly galled the colonists. Make sure you use enough details to support
your answer.