Author Question: The British passed the Intolerable Acts as a direct reaction to __________. A) American boycotts ... (Read 72 times)

aabwk4 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

George Mason stated that the natural strength and only stable security of a free Government came from __________.

A) well-regulated militias
B) alliances with foreign powers
C) dependence on using slaves to fight enemies
D) colonial assemblies

Question 2

According to this map, what developed as a result of a German miscalculation of its war plan, which was also known as the Schlieffen Plan?

A) the sinking of the Lusitania
B) facing a two-front war in both Eastern and Western Europe
C) the unexpected entry of the United States into World War I
D) British mining of the North Sea

Question 3

Union General George McClellan's 1861 letter to his wife stating that I seem to have become the power of the land, I almost think that were I to win some small success now I could become Dictator or anything else that might please me,

reveals that __________ was one of his greatest flaws and eventually led to his removal as general of the Army of the Potomac. A) procrastination
B) arrogance
C) poor decision making
D) brutality

Question 4

The Tet Offensive was __________.

A) the American-planned assassination of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem
B) a massacre of innocent South Vietnamese villagers by American soldiers
C) the beginning of American aerial bombings in Cambodia and Laos
D) a North Vietnamese and Vietcong assault on over 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam

Question 5

The British passed the Intolerable Acts as a direct reaction to __________.

A) American boycotts of tea and other imported goods
B) colonial participation in the Boston Tea Party
C) the mob violence associated with the tar-and-feathering of tax collectors
D) punish colonists for settling west of the Appalachians