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Chapter_07_The_Road_to_Revolution_1763_1775 (1)

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

59. Before 1763, the Navigation Laws

  a. were enforced heavily in the American colonies and were very effective.
  b. hurt Great Britain more than the American colonies.
  c. were a great burden to only India.
  d. discouraged smuggling by American colonial merchants.
  e. were only loosely enforced in the American colonies.

 

ANSWER:   e
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   The Merits and Menace of Mercantilism

 

60. Despite some economic benefits of the mercantile system, the American colonists generally disliked it because it

  a. forced the South into a one-crop economy.
  b. favored the northern over the southern colonies.
  c. required American colonists to display a measure of economic initiative and self-sufficiency as they were unable to demonstrate trading in international economic markets.
  d. stifled economic initiative and imposed a rankling dependency on British government agents and creditors.
  e. forced them to sell their products to other countries at a reduced price.

 

ANSWER:   d
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Mercantilism and Colonial Grievances
The Merits and Menace of Mercantilism

 

61. In some ways, the Navigation Laws and mercantilist system were a burden to certain colonists because

  a. northern merchants derived greater benefit from the system than did southern planters.
  b. those colonists were heavily taxed to help provide financing for the Royal Navy, which protected colonial and British trade.
  c. they stifled economic initiative.
  d. Britain had the only European empire based on mercantilist principles.
  e. they gave greater benefits to slaveholders.

 

ANSWER:   c
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Mercantilism and Colonial Grievances
The Merits and Menace of Mercantilism

 

62. All of the following were direct benefits reaped by the Americans from the mercantile system of Britain except

  a. British allowed the Americans to freely trade with other countries and compete on the open market.
  b. London paid high prices for ship parts to American producers.
  c. Virginia tobacco planters enjoyed a monopoly in the British market.
  d. protection of the world’s mightiest navy and army without a penny of cost.
  e. some British merchants were not allowed to compete with the American colonial merchants.

 

ANSWER:   a
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Mercantilism and Colonial Grievances
The Merits and Menace of Mercantilism

 

63. A new relationship between Britain and its American colonies was initiated in 1763 when Prime Minister  ____ assumed charge of colonial policy and implemented more politically and economically coercive policies towards the American colonies.

  a. Charles Townshend
  b. George Grenville
  c. Lord North
  d. William Pitt
  e. King George III

 

ANSWER:   b
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   The Stamp Act Uproar

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