Chapter 10 English and American Revolutions
1.
What was the cause of tension between James I and Parliament?
A) the king's constant need for money
B) the king's foreign policy
C) his professed belief in divine right
D) all of the above
2.
How did the Petition of Right limit the power of Charles I?
A) He could not collect taxes without Parliament's consent.
B) He could not declare war without Parliament's consent.
C) He was no longer head of the Church of England.
D) all of the above
3.
What was the relationship of Oliver Cromwell to the Roundheads?
A) He led the forces against them.
B) He was their military commander.
C) They surrendered to him in 1646.
D) He drove them out of Parliament.
4.
What circumstance showed the lack of religious toleration after the Restoration?
A) Only members of the Church of England could attend universities.
B) Hundreds of Puritan clergy were driven from their churches.
C) The Church of England was again made the state religion.
D) all of the above
5.
What event marked the Glorious Revolution?
A) the peaceful transfer of power to William and Mary
B) the passing of the Exclusion Bill
C) the passing of the Bill of Rights
D) the payment of a salary to all members of the House of Commons
6.
Who took the throne as the result of the Act of Settlement?
A) William and Mary's daughter Anne
B) Sir Robert Walpole
C) George I
D) James II
7.
How did the American colonists protest the Stamp Act?
A) They attacked stamp agents and burned tax stamps in the streets.
B) They boycotted British goods.
C) They met at a Stamp Act Congress in New York City.
D) all of the above
8.
Who wrote
Common Sense
?
A) Samuel Adams
B) Paul Revere
C) Thomas Paine
D) John Locke
9.
When did France join the Americans in the war against Great Britain?
A) soon after the British defeat at Saratoga, New York
B) once the Declaration of Independence was signed
C) the day after the ride of Paul Revere and William Dawes
D) after Spain had taken the Americans' side
10.
The ratification of the Constitution did not make the United States a full democracy because ______
A) not all Americans had the right to vote.
B) there was no system of checks and balances in the government.
C) political authority was in the hands of the national government.
D) all of the above