Question 1
Why did violence flare up in the Hudson River Valley during the 1750s and 1760s?
A) Tenants challenged elite landlords over evictions.
B) Native Americans burned settler homes over land issues.
C) African American slaves confiscated white-owned plantations.
D) The Spanish royal government sent troops against British colonial tax evaders.
Question 2
Who were the Regulators?
A) frustrated farmers in North Carolina
B) upset urban workers in Boston
C) angry Native Americans in Ohio
D) vengeful planters in South Carolina
Question 3
How did farmers respond to the movement toward revolution in the colonies?
A) They became immediate revolutionaries.
B) They came around slowly to the cause of revolution.
C) They supported the British side almost entirely as a group.
D) All of the above.
Question 4
During the 1760s and 1770s, urban artisans in America
A) used political discontent to demand internal reforms.
B) opposed revolutionary agitation against England.
C) feared political protests might provoke retaliation by powerful merchants.
D) degenerated into radical and unruly mobs.
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