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British authorities were stunned by the Boston Tea Party. In their wanton destruction of private property—and so much, at that!—the Americans had gone too far this time. They must be taught their place: subordinate to England and to Parliament. In 1774, Parliament passed the PUNITIVE Coercive Acts (known in the colonies as the "Intolerable Acts"), legislation designed to do just that.
The Massachusetts Government Act threw the colony under the direct control of the British government. Gone was the old colonial charter. Gone was the colonial PREROGATIVE to appoint or elect most government officials, now they'd almost all be appointed by the king (or his governing appointees) or Parliament.
And while quartering troops no one wanted was bad enough, it was far worse now to be further deprived of property rights via gubernatorial REQUISITIONS.
A young Thomas Jefferson went into much more detail in his 1774 A Summary View of the Rights of British America, in which he laid out an ERUDITE political philosophy for the British Empire that would preserve the rights of its various parts.
We don’t know if the king ever saw this pamphlet, or read it or whatever, but if he did, he probably would have tossed it aside and said this Thomas Jefferson guy is a nobody. But anyway, this is the view they took. And when they wrote their petition to the king, it was much more PUGNACIOUS like this.
In true Enlightenment fashion, Paine's essay used reason (or "common sense") to EXCORIATE the very notion of monarchy—and the men and women who wore the crown. “Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent, selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance, and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.”
intended as punishment
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appropriations
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Question 2 of 11
2. Question
All of the following are true about the Intolerable Acts EXCEPT
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Question 3 of 11
3. Question
Match each work or excerpt with its author.
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A Summary View of the Rights of British America
“But where says some is the King of America? I’ll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.”
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms
Suffolk Resolves
“[T]his is the day then that you wish to go to war with America.”
“[The moment for] conciliating, moderation, reasoning is over.”
“By the rude bridge that arched the flood, / Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, / Here once the embattled farmers stood / And fired the shot heard round the world."
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson
the First Continental Congress
Edmund Burke
Thomas Gage
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Question 4 of 11
4. Question
Place the following events in chronological order from first to last.
Suffolk Resolves
Siege of Boston
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Boston Tea Party
Prohibitory Act
Coercive Acts
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Question 5 of 11
5. Question
Richard Henry Lee is best known for
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Question 6 of 11
6. Question
Read the quote below then answer the following question: Which answer is the best synonym for “Congress” as it is used in this excerpt?
“By adopting the Resolves, the First Continental Congress was stamping inter-colonial approval onto the rebellion in Massachusetts.”
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Question 7 of 11
7. Question
General non-importation of British Goods came about as a result of
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Question 8 of 11
8. Question
A contingent of British regulars was in Concord on the evening of 18 April, 1775,
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Question 9 of 11
9. Question
“Rhetoric” is best defined as
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Question 10 of 11
10. Question
Match the terms and definitions.
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German mercenaries hired by the British during the Revolutionary War
military force created by the Second Continental Congress, with George Washington as its head
meeting of ambassadors from thirteen colonies (after 2 July, 1776 "States") that organized a Continental Army, coordinated the war effort, declared joint independence, and drew up the Articles of Confederation
1774 meeting of ambassadors from twelve of the thirteen colonies that adopted the Suffolk Resolves and organized the Continental Association (with its Committees of Inspection)
June engagement between the British and Massachusetts militia after the latter had secured Breed's Hill and placed fortifications thereon; though the British emerged victorious, the victors suffered far heavier losses
lasting from April 1775 to March 1776, this was the Revolutionary War's first episode—characterized by a Boston occupied by British troops but surrounded by colonial militia preventing any sort of inland movement
armed struggle between the British and "Patriot" revolutionaries–the latter by 1776 organized into "united States"–that began in 1775 and ended with the revolutionaries' victory in 1783
an unsuccessful British attempt to seize militia supplies in April 1775 led to these two confrontations, signaling the opening of the Revolutionary War
Hessians
Continental Army
Second Continental Congress
First Continental Congress
Battle of Bunker Hill
Siege of Boston
Revolutionary War
Battles of Lexington and Concord
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Question 11 of 11
11. Question
Match the terms and definitions.
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a 1775 act prohibiting all trade by England with the American colonies—and removing all royal protection from American merchants
essay by Thomas Paine that seems to have been pivotal in turning many American colonists from agitators for their rights as freeborn Englishmen into revolutionaries seeking complete secession from the British empire
a 1774 declaration made by a Massachusetts county to nullify several of the "Intolerable Acts," urging the raising of colonial militia, supporting a Massachusetts government free of royal authority, and calling for non-payment of taxes
joint 1776 declaration by thirteen colonies–now "states"—of their political separation from Britain
also called the "Intolerable Acts," these were mostly designed to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party–but ended up instead fueling a Revolution
Thomas Jefferson's tract outlining the colonial position on the relationship between the colonies, their assemblies, Parliament, and the King
The revolutionary convention that declared the independence of the most powerful of the thirteen colonies
Prohibitory Act
Common Sense
Suffolk Resolves
Declaration of Independence
Coercive Acts
A Summary View of the Rights of British America
Fifth Virginia Convention
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