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America in the British Empire
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1 .       The British never developed an efficient and effective centralized system for governing the American colonies. [Hint]

 
 


2 .       By 1680, the King's Privy Council had established the general principles to which all colonial assemblies had to conform. [Hint]

 
 


3 .       The Navigation Acts prohibited British colonists from selling certain enumerated articles like tobacco and sugar outside the British empire. [Hint]

 
 


4 .       Great Britain was the British North American colonies' main trading partner. [Hint]

 
 


5 .       The Great Awakening evangelical revivalists encouraged their followers to again embrace the strict doctrines of Calvinism and accept the authority of the established churches. [Hint]

 
 


6 .       The precipitating conflict that initiated the French and Indian War occurred in the Ohio River Valley. [Hint]

 
 


7 .       In the French and Indian War, the British colonies contributed relatively little money, and the performance of colonial troops was uneven. [Hint]

 
 


8 .       Under the terms of the 1763 Treaty of Paris, England gained possession of all French and Spanish territories in North America. [Hint]

 
 


9 .       Colonists viewed the Sugar Act as a threat to their rights as English subjects not to be taxed without their consent. [Hint]

 
 


10 .       In 1765, Americans probably would have resented having to pay taxes to support the British imperial administration of the colonies even if their own colonial assemblies had enacted them. [Hint]

 
 


11 .       By 1770, many colonists believed that corrupt members of Parliament were plotting to tyrannize the colonists and rob them of their liberties. [Hint]

 
 


12 .       Massachusetts's Circular Letter protested the unconstitutionality of the Stamp Act. [Hint]

 
 


13 .       The First Continental Congress that met in Philadelphia in 1774 quickly decided on a course of complete independence for the colonies. 

 
 






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