SJA APUSH Period 3 Test UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Although a few were outraged by the Stamp Act, most politically active colonists actually
supported it. - CORRECT ANSWER - False
Americans did not gain much more than independence from the Treaty of Paris of 1783. -
CORRECT ANSWER - False
The Sons of Liberty enforced a boycott of British goods. - CORRECT ANSWER - True
Homespun clothing became a symbol of American resistance during the American boycott on
British goods. - CORRECT ANSWER - True
The transatlantic slave trade was not a vital part of world commerce. - CORRECT
ANSWER - False
British soldiers were better equipped than American Continental army soldiers. - CORRECT
ANSWER - True
Which of the following did NOT specifically provide for direct or indirect taxes on the colonies?
a. the Townshend Act
b. the Tea Act
c. the Declaratory Act
d. the Stamp Act
e. the Sugar Act - CORRECT ANSWER - c. the Declaratory Act
Virtual representation was the idea:
, a. about representation that most politically active American colonists in the 1760s and 1770s
embraced
b. that only those who were elected by a given population could represent that population in a
legislative body
c. that each member of Britain's House of Commons represented the entire empire, not just his
own district
d. endorsed by the Stamp Act Congress in 1765
e. that the king should appoint delegates to represent the colonies in the British House of
Commons - CORRECT ANSWER - c. that each member of Britain's House of Commons
represented the entire empire, not just his own district
What major event first led the British government to seek ways to make the colonies bear part of
the cost of the empire?
a. King Phillip's War
b. the Boston Tea Party
c. the Declaration of Independence
d. the Seven Years' War
e. the appointment of William Pitt as British prime minister - CORRECT ANSWER - d.
the Seven Years' War
Why did colonists object to the Tea Act?
a. it raised the tax on tea so much as to make tea prohibitively expensive
b. because it would aid a different part of the empire than their own, colonists felt that this was
the kind of discriminatory action that violated the concept of liberty
c. by paying it, they would be acknowledging Great Britain's right to tax the colonists
d. it granted a monopoly, and the colonists opposed all forms of monopoly
e. The British East India Company made inferior tea, and the colonists preferred not to drink it -
CORRECT ANSWER - c. by paying it, they would be acknowledging Great Britain's right
to tax the colonists.
Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense as a response to Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. -
CORRECT ANSWER - False
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Although a few were outraged by the Stamp Act, most politically active colonists actually
supported it. - CORRECT ANSWER - False
Americans did not gain much more than independence from the Treaty of Paris of 1783. -
CORRECT ANSWER - False
The Sons of Liberty enforced a boycott of British goods. - CORRECT ANSWER - True
Homespun clothing became a symbol of American resistance during the American boycott on
British goods. - CORRECT ANSWER - True
The transatlantic slave trade was not a vital part of world commerce. - CORRECT
ANSWER - False
British soldiers were better equipped than American Continental army soldiers. - CORRECT
ANSWER - True
Which of the following did NOT specifically provide for direct or indirect taxes on the colonies?
a. the Townshend Act
b. the Tea Act
c. the Declaratory Act
d. the Stamp Act
e. the Sugar Act - CORRECT ANSWER - c. the Declaratory Act
Virtual representation was the idea:
, a. about representation that most politically active American colonists in the 1760s and 1770s
embraced
b. that only those who were elected by a given population could represent that population in a
legislative body
c. that each member of Britain's House of Commons represented the entire empire, not just his
own district
d. endorsed by the Stamp Act Congress in 1765
e. that the king should appoint delegates to represent the colonies in the British House of
Commons - CORRECT ANSWER - c. that each member of Britain's House of Commons
represented the entire empire, not just his own district
What major event first led the British government to seek ways to make the colonies bear part of
the cost of the empire?
a. King Phillip's War
b. the Boston Tea Party
c. the Declaration of Independence
d. the Seven Years' War
e. the appointment of William Pitt as British prime minister - CORRECT ANSWER - d.
the Seven Years' War
Why did colonists object to the Tea Act?
a. it raised the tax on tea so much as to make tea prohibitively expensive
b. because it would aid a different part of the empire than their own, colonists felt that this was
the kind of discriminatory action that violated the concept of liberty
c. by paying it, they would be acknowledging Great Britain's right to tax the colonists
d. it granted a monopoly, and the colonists opposed all forms of monopoly
e. The British East India Company made inferior tea, and the colonists preferred not to drink it -
CORRECT ANSWER - c. by paying it, they would be acknowledging Great Britain's right
to tax the colonists.
Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense as a response to Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. -
CORRECT ANSWER - False
