Which of the following statements regarding the Coercive Acts is true?
A. Massachusetts became a martyr in the cause of resistance.
B. The acts were basically ignored by other colonial legislatures.
C. Colonial boycotts decreased.
D. Massachusetts became politically isolated from the other colonies.
E. The acts had little practical effect on the Massachusetts colony.
A
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What will be an ideal response?
Which crises contributed to the near collapse of the Roman Empire in the third century?
a. The plague b. Slave revolts c. Peasant uprisings d. Labor surpluses e. Volcanic eruptions
What was the most dominant common characteristic among the diverse group of people who remained loyal to Britain?
A. They were old-stock wealthy planters and merchants from the coastal areas whose families had long prospered under British rule. B. They were fearful of instability within American society. C. They owed their livelihood and social status to Crown appointments and thus were unmoved by constitutional arguments. D. They were devout Christians who believed the Bible commanded obedience to authority.
The chapter introduction tells the story of the Sioux migration to the Great Plains to make the point that
A. the United States not only had to resort to war and diplomacy to expand its borders, it also had to cope within its borders with native peoples who attacked the emigrants on the Overland Trail. B. Mexican advancement northward, as well as Anglo-American advancement westward, put pressure on the Plains tribes. C. frontiers were multidimensional and mobile, involved a variety of peoples and cultures, and ultimately proved as disruptive to the settled East as to the contested West. D. the American ideology of Manifest Destiny meant manifest destruction for tribal cultures.