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Appendix Quiz D
This is a review of the A Beka curriculum 12th grade American Government Appendix Quiz D.
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12th Grade
09/03/2014

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George III
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The accession of _____ in 1760 brought great political change to both England and the colonies. He was determined to restore the power of the monarchy by supporting men in Parliament.
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William Pitt and Edmund Burke
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Name to English parliamentarians who were allies with the colonists.
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Edmund Burke
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Irish parliamentarian known as the Father of Modern Conservatism.
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Stamp Act
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Act requiring colonists to purchase and to affix stamps on legal and commercial documents including pamphlets and newspapers.
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Stamp Act Congress
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At what did the delegates conclude that, according to their charters, they were only under the authority of the king?
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Declaration of Rights and Grienvances
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In 1765, what did the Stamp Act Congress issue, protesting the stamp tax and other British regulations which the colonists felt were illegal?
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"Intolerable Acts"
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A series of laws passed by Parliament, punishing the colonists of Boston for resistance to their regulations-
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First Continental Congress
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What was the assembly of delegates from every colony except Georgia to discuss what action would be taken in the impending crisis called?
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Second Continental Congress
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All thirteen colonies were represented in Philadelphia as a government body to assume political power by supporting an army, appointing George Washington as commander in chief, and issuing money. It was, in other words, America's first central government.
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Prohibitory Act
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The _____ cut off all trade between the colonies and England and officially removed the colonies from the "King's Protection".
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