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- True or False: American colonists viewed the use of the Vice-Admiralty Court in prosecuting colonial smugglers was parallel to the enslavement of Africans.
- In May 1775, Ethan Allen and this man led American Forces against for Ticonderoga?
- True or False: The Quebec Act extended religious tolerance to Roman Catholics in the province.
- This British Prime Minister Took Control in 1763 and was determined to curtail government spending and make sure the American colonists did their part to pay down the massive debt?
- True or False: The British Constitution is a singular written document that inspired the American Constitution.
- True or False: British Parliament believed the relationship of the colonies to the Empire was one of Equality.
- Which leader of Delaware preached a doctrine of shunning European culture and expelling Europeans from native lands?
- True or False: The First Continental Congress was made up of elected representatives from each of the thirteen colonies?
- Approximately what percentage of American Colonists remained loyal to the British crown during the American Revolution?
- True or False: Some protestors participating in the Boston Tea Party dressed as Mohawk Indians.
- True or False: The Non-importation movement in 1766 gave colonial women a new and active role in the political dissent of the time.
- True or False: John Adams supported the actions of the Sons of Liberty that resulted in the Boston Massacre.
- Colonists boarded and burned this British revenue ship in Narragansett Bay?
- During which was did England gain control of the New Netherlands Colony in North America?
- Poor Richard: An Almanack was an Enlightenment publication issued by this intellectual?
- This Parliamentary act marked a shift in British policy regarding taxation. Prior to this act, colonists paid taxes to their colonial governments; however, after this act, colonists paid taxes directly to the crown?
- True or False: A new form of literature called "novels" made their first appearance in the eighteenth century and proved very popular in the British Atlantic.
- The most serious issue facing Great Britain immediately following the French and Indian War was?
- True or False: The Boston Port Act of 1774 shut down the Boston Harbor indefinitely.
- Type of spending involving heavy borrowing