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Which British measure required revenue stamps on newspapers, licenses and legal documents?Read the answer and worked solution →France marked out its North American empire with forts and trading posts running between which two points?Read the answer and worked solution →Who drafted the Albany Plan of Union put before the colonies in 1754?Read the answer and worked solution →The royal proclamation of 1763 reserved the western territory for whose use?Read the answer and worked solution →Whom did the Second Continental Congress appoint commander in chief of the American forces?Read the answer and worked solution →Which idea did Thomas Paine ridicule in his pamphlet Common Sense?Read the answer and worked solution →News of which American victory led the House of Commons to vote to end the war?Read the answer and worked solution →How were the men disguised who boarded three tea ships in Boston on 16 December 1773?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did no colony accept the Albany Plan of Union?Read the answer and worked solution →What upset New England merchants most about the Sugar Act of 1764?Read the answer and worked solution →Which single duty did Parliament keep in 1770 when it repealed the Townshend duties?Read the answer and worked solution →What did the Boston Port Bill do to the city of Boston?Read the answer and worked solution →Which colony sent no delegate at all to the first Continental Congress in 1774?Read the answer and worked solution →Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766. Which pressure moved it to yield?Read the answer and worked solution →Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga in October 1777. Which consequence made that the turning point?Read the answer and worked solution →Drag each act and battle to its yearRead the answer and worked solution →Tap the road to war in orderRead the answer and worked solution →Drop each group into loyalist or patriotRead the answer and worked solution →

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Which British measure required revenue stamps on newspapers, licenses and legal documents?

  1. The Stamp Act
  2. The Quebec Act
  3. The Currency Act
  4. The Billeting Act
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Correct answer: A. The Stamp Act

1. After 1763 Parliament looked for a tax on the colonies that would fall on every kind of paper business. 2. Revenue stamps were to be affixed to all newspapers, broadsides, pamphlets, licenses, leases and other legal documents. 3. That measure is the Stamp Act, and it was the one that sparked organized colonial resistance. 4. The Quebec Act dealt with the boundaries and the religious rights of Quebec rather than with any tax. _Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION AT ISSUE_

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France marked out its North American empire with forts and trading posts running between which two points?

  1. Boston and New Orleans
  2. Quebec and New Orleans
  3. Quebec and Charleston
  4. Montreal and Savannah
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Correct answer: B. Quebec and New Orleans

1. France sent over fewer settlers than Britain but more explorers, missionaries and fur traders. 2. Those men took possession of the Mississippi River and built a line of forts and trading posts along it. 3. The crescent that resulted stretched from Quebec in the northeast to New Orleans in the south. 4. It pinned the British to the narrow belt of land east of the Appalachian Mountains. _Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section BRITISH AND FRENCH CLASH_

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Who drafted the Albany Plan of Union put before the colonies in 1754?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Richard Henry Lee
  3. Benjamin Franklin
  4. John Dickinson
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Correct answer: C. Benjamin Franklin

1. The Albany Congress met to settle Indian grievances but went further and called for a colonial union. 2. Benjamin Franklin drafted the plan the delegates adopted there. 3. It gave a president appointed by the King a grand council of delegates chosen by the assemblies. 4. Jefferson and Lee both belong to the independence debates of the 1770s, not to Albany in 1754. _Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section FIRST STIRRING OF UNITY_

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