The first attacks on the Stamp Act, or the "Virginia Resolves," were made by __________
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) John Hancock
C) Patrick Henry
D) Benjamin Franklin
C
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Parliament believed the colonists would accept the Tea Act because
a. it would lower the price of tea. b. it confirmed the power of colonial assemblies to tax the colonists. c. allowed the Dutch to sell some tea in the colonies. d. it gave colonial merchants greater profits.
Once begun, the War of 1812 was supported strongly by
a. practically all Americans. b. New England and the seaboard states. c. very few people. d. the West and South. e. Federalists.
All of the following were true about free African Americans in the antebellum South EXCEPT
a. they were discriminated against in housing b. skilled workers were unable to find work c. they could not testify against a white person in court d. they could neither vote nor hold public office e. they could not move from one slave state into another
An astrolabe was a/an
A) sighting instrument devised in ancient times and improved by Arab astronomers, which enabled the navigator to calculate latitude. B) Chinese invention, which helped a navigator set and hold a ship's course as it pointed north. C) Arab invention, which helped a navigator set and hold a ship's course as it pointed north. D) sighting instrument devised in ancient times and improved by Greek astronomers, which enabled the navigator to calculate latitude. E) pointing device that allowed seafarers to find their way home from westwards directions.