Week 4 Quiz

In which year was the Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years' War, the French and Indian War in North America, concluded?

Select one.

• 1765
• 1763
• 1774
• 1775

The pinned fragment "cedes and guaranties to his said Britannick Majesty, in full right, Canada" comes from which document?

Select one.

• The Mayflower Compact signed by settlers at Cape Cod
• The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
• The Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years' War
• The First Charter of Virginia issued by King James I

Delegates from nine colonies met in New York City and adopted fourteen declarations on taxation and the colonists' rights. Which body adopted those declarations?

Select one.

• The Stamp Act Congress
• The Continental Congress
• The British House of Commons
• The Lords Proprietors

True or false: the pinned fragment of the declarations adopted in New York City objects to every tax laid on the colonists, no matter who laid it.

True or false.

• True
• False

The Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years' War and the declarations adopted in New York City are both years on the course's survey chronology. How many years separate them?

Select one.

• 9 years
• 12 years
• 1 year
• 2 years

An archive's web page titles the declarations adopted in New York City with the name of a body that did not adopt them. How should a careful reader treat that title?

Select one.

• As proof that the body the title names adopted them
• As the archive's label, not the document's own origin
• As the document's own heading, which always takes priority
• As a sign that the declarations are a later forgery

Which description fits the week's Primary Source Workshop document, the declarations adopted in New York City?

Select one.

• A treaty concluded in 1765, kept by the National Archives
• A private letter written in 1765, kept by Founders Online
• Resolutions adopted in 1765, kept by the Avalon Project
• A royal proclamation issued in 1765, kept by the Avalon Project

Which pair keeps the causes of the American Revolution and of the Civil War apart, as the course teaches them from each war's documents?

Select one.

• Revolution: taxation and representation; Civil War: slavery's expansion
• Revolution: slavery's expansion; Civil War: taxation and representation
• Both wars: tariffs and states' rights in the abstract
• Both wars: the same quarrel over rights, with no difference

Item 3 of the course's illustrative source-sorting set is a 1765 newspaper notice announcing a boycott of British cloth. For a question about colonial boycotts, how is it sorted?

Select one.

• Secondary, because a newspaper reports on events
• Secondary, because it was printed for the public
• Neither, because it is illustrative
• Primary, because it was made during the period

The colonies of the imperial crisis held both indentured servants and enslaved people. Which description fits the status of enslaved people under colonial law?

Select one.

• Labor for a fixed term of years, after which the person was free
• Enslavement for life, inherited through the mother and tied by law to African descent
• A status that ended once a person paid a fee to the colony
• Bound labor that applied only to the person who signed a contract