Question

Which of the following are TRUE?

I. The Quebec Act (1774) allowed residents of what later became Canada to expand their territory southward into a region that had been off-limits to British American colonists under the Proclamation of 1763.
II. When shooting broke out in Lexington and Concord, the mission of the British soldiers had been to patrol the roads in search of runaway slaves.
III. In "Common Sense" Thomas Paine rejected the concept of monarchies and called for a new social and political order.
IV. When war broke out between England and the American colonies, an advantage the Americans had was that they were fighting not only for their political ideology but also for their own families and homes.
V. As the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill ended, British forces were driven back into Boston and the Americans held the terrain.

Answer 1

1.- True

2.- False

3.- True

4.- False

5.- False

Step-by-step explanation:

1. The Quebec Act of 1774 was a Great Britain's Parliament's act which set governance guidelines for Quebec Province.

The province's territory was expanded to take over part of the Indian Reserve, including much of what is now southern Ontario, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and parts of Minnesota.

After the 7 Years' War, Great Britain defeated France, and a s aconsequence, Peace was formally signed on the 1763 Treaty of Paris. According to this treaty, the Kingdom of France ceded New France to Britain, keeping instead the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique due to their important production of sugar.

2. The British Army went out of Boston to capture leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington, they were also looking for destroying American Army's weapon store and ammunition in Concord. The colonists were warned however, by riders including Paul Revere, that the British Army was approaching.

3. The most important points he argued for, were: (1) independence from England and (2) the creation of a democratic republic.

4. English Parliament’s decisions towards the colonists were taken as aggresions, giving rise to a more and more distant ideology between the colonist’s political, economic, and social ideas and those of the British. Colonists had developed a solid, new identity that helped foster resistance against Britain. However, Americans were not totally unified; disorganization and uncertainty ruled. There existed some organizations which intended to influence as unification factors for the colonists, e.g. the Continental Congress, but rather than solid political groups they worked more as discussion forums, this meant their work took longer before agreeing or making drastic decisions. Furthermore, American resistance also had a conflict of interests. Many colonists were still in favor of the Crown and did not want to break away from Great Britain, and eve some of them refused to support the revolution, because they felt that a break with Britain would mean economic chaos - which probably was not far from reality.

5. Much of the colonial forces retreatment from the peninsula was possible due to the controlled withdrawn of the forces led by John Stark and Thomas Knowlton, which prevented the encirclement of the hill. General Putnam tried to gather the troops once more on Bunker Hill, but colonial drawdown was so quick that artillery pieces and entrenching tools were left behind. The colonists suffered most of their casualties during the retreat on Bunker Hill. By 5 p.m., the colonists had already left to fortified positions, and the British were in control of the peninsula.