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- The _________ Act made Roman Catholicism legal in some parts of North America formerly owned by France and allowed former French citizens in North America to settle in the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.Answers:CroissantLouisianaCajunQuebec
- In April of 1775, General Gage ordered British forces to seize weapons that Americans were reported to have stored in _______.Answers:Concord, Mass.PhiladelphiaPlymouth, Mass.New York City
- To help the struggling British East India Company, Parliament passed the:Answers:Townshend ActsRestraining ActIntolerable ActsTea Act
- In response to America's threat in the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, Lord North and the British:Answers:re-instituted the Navigation Actsrepealed the Revenue Actimprisoned Betsy Rossblockaded American ports
- The American response to the acts of 1767 was to boycott British goods. As a result, these items became very popular.Answers:bear meat and venisoncoffeehomespun clothingall of the above
- he Massachusetts Government Act:Answers:dissolved the Massachusetts colonial legislatureannulled the Massachusetts charterprohibited town meetingsall of these
- Instead of intimidating American colonists in the South, this brutal British cavalry officer only succeeded in convincing them of the need to fight against the British.Answers:Lord CornwallisEdward LongshanksBanastre TarletonJohn Paul Jones
- In response to the riots in New York City over the Stamp Act in 1765, this 1767 act dissolved the New York Colonial legislature. It no longer existed in the eyes of the British Government.Answers:the Government Actthe Coercive Actsthe Intolerable Actsthe Restraining Act
- When Americans declared that they would not stand for taxation by Parliament without representation in Parliament, the British responded that the Americans had this:Answers:Vertical RepresentationVestigial RepresentationVirtual RepresentationVing Rhames' Representation
- William Pitt's administrations was largely run by his right-hand man and the Chancellor of the Exchequer:Answers:Lord ButeGeorge GrenvilleLord NorthCharles Townshend
- At the Battle of Yorktown, the British were prevented from withdrawing by:Answers:the French Navya fear of the unknownthe Spanish Navythe British Navy
- The British were surprised by they ferocity of the ___________ at the Battle of King's Mountain.Answers:Good Ole BoysDuke BoysMountain MenOvermountain Men
- This treaty ended the American Revolution:Answers:Treaty of Paris of 1783Treaty of Paris of 1763Treaty of VersaillesTreaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
- Most of the fighting in the American Revolution after the Battle of Yorktown occured on the Southern frontier and mostly involved this tribe:Answers:CherokeeChoctawChickasawCreek
- Admiral de Grasse was not the only French officer who played a major role in the Battle of Yorktown. Identify one other.Answers:LafayetteMontcalmMirabouBouchet
- The Revenue Act of 1767 undermined traditional British rights for Americans by setting up ___________ all along the eastern seaboard.Answers:playgroundskangaroo courtsvice admiralty courtsEnglish Common Law
- At which battle in South Carolina did Gen. Daniel Morgan ingeniously use green troops to route the British and convince Lord Cornwallis that Virginia must be taken before any other southern colony.Answers:the Battle of Yorktownthe Battle of Cowpensthe Battle of Stirling Bridgethe Battle of Culloden
- This man, known as "the Gamecock," carried on a guerilla war with the British in South Carolina.Answers:Francis MarionThomas SumterGeorge Rogers ClarkeDaniel Boone
- The Boston Port Bill:Answers:destroyed Boston Harborenhanced Boston Harborblockaded Boston Harborturned Boston Harbor to tea
- The Americans inflicted heavy casualties upon the British at Breed's and Bunker Hill.Answers:TrueFalse