Author Question: General Robert E. Lee decided to invade the North through Pennsylvania in order to a. deliver a ... (Read 56 times)

student77 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

General Robert E. Lee decided to invade the North through Pennsylvania in order to

a. deliver a decisive blow that would strengthen the Northern peace movement and encourage foreign intervention on behalf of the South.
b. force the Union to ease its blockade of the South.
c. cut Northern supply lines.
d. stir northern draft resisters to rise in revolt.
e. seize Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Question 2

The Quebec Act was especially unpopular in the American colonies because it did all of the following except it

a. aroused anti-Catholic sentiment among Protestant American colonists who feared the act's extension of Catholic influence in North America.
b. potentially undermined the asserted democratic rights and institutions of American colonists, including the right to jury trials and the election of representative assemblies, throughout North America, not merely in Quebec.
c. denied French colonists in Quebec and the Ohio River Valley the right to retain many of their old customs and institutions.
d. alarmed land speculators, who saw a huge area in the Ohio River Valley snatched from their grasp.
e. was regarded as an unjustified political reaction by the British authorities to the unrest in Boston.