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In what year did the overt parting of the ways between England and the American colonies begin?Read the answer and worked solution →Which settlement was the first permanent one founded in the American colonies?Read the answer and worked solution →The Sugar Act of 1764 replaced which earlier measure?Read the answer and worked solution →Which fiery Massachusetts orator wrote that one single act of Parliament had set more people thinking in six months than ever before?Read the answer and worked solution →How many delegates, from how many colonies, attended the Stamp Act Congress of October 1765?Read the answer and worked solution →What happened in Boston on March 5, 1770?Read the answer and worked solution →What did Samuel Adams induce the Boston town meeting to create in 1772?Read the answer and worked solution →Warned that patriots were collecting munitions, where did General Gage send troops on the night of April 18, 1775?Read the answer and worked solution →Who was chosen president of the Second Continental Congress in May 1775?Read the answer and worked solution →The declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms was the joint product of which two men?Read the answer and worked solution →What pamphlet did Thomas Paine publish five months after the King declared the colonies in rebellion?Read the answer and worked solution →At Yorktown in 1781, the combined American and French armies of 15,000 penned in a British army of what size?Read the answer and worked solution →Revolution figures bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Catch the Intolerable ActsRead the answer and worked solution →

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In what year did the overt parting of the ways between England and the American colonies begin?

  1. 1620
  2. 1763
  3. 1775
  4. 1707
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Correct answer: B. 1763

1. John Adams traced the Revolution's roots much further back, but as a practical matter the split had a start date. 2. The open parting of the ways between England and America began in 1763. 3. That year followed the defeat of France, which removed the threat that had bound the colonies to Britain. _Source: "An Outline of American History" (USIA, 1990, public domain), Ch 2 "The War of Independence"_

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Which settlement was the first permanent one founded in the American colonies?

  1. Plymouth Colony
  2. New Amsterdam town
  3. Jamestown, Virginia
  4. Boston Settlement
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Correct answer: C. Jamestown, Virginia

1. The first permanent settlement in the colonies was founded at Jamestown, Virginia. 2. The 1763 split came more than a century and a half after that founding. 3. Plymouth and Boston came later, and New Amsterdam was a Dutch settlement. _Source: "An Outline of American History" (USIA, 1990, public domain), Ch 2 "The War of Independence"_

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The Sugar Act of 1764 replaced which earlier measure?

  1. The Currency Act of 1751
  2. The Navigation Act of 1660
  3. The Molasses Act of 1733
  4. The Billeting Act of 1755
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Correct answer: C. The Molasses Act of 1733

1. The Sugar Act of 1764 was the first step of the new financial system, designed to raise revenue without regulating trade. 2. It replaced the Molasses Act of 1733, which had placed a prohibitive duty on rum and molasses from non-English areas. 3. The amended act forbade foreign rum, put a modest duty on molasses from all sources, and taxed several luxury items. _Source: "An Outline of American History" (USIA, 1990, public domain), Ch 2 "The War of Independence"_

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