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APUSH Practice MCQ Exam A (1-4)

Questions 1–4 refer to the following excerpt.

Source 1

“May it . . . please your most excellent Majesty, that it may be declared . . . in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the said colonies and plantations in America have been, are, and of right ought to be, subordinate unto, and dependent upon the imperial crown and parliament of Great Britain; . . . and [they] of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.”

The Declaratory Act, passed by the British Parliament in 1766

Question 1

Multiple choice

Which of the following contributed most directly to the enactment of the law in the excerpt?

Question 2

Multiple choice

The actions described in the excerpt most immediately led to

Question 3

Multiple choice

Which of the following was the American colonists’ immediate response to the attempts of the British Parliament to enforce the claims made in the excerpt?

Question 4

Multiple choice

Debates over the claims of the British Parliament in the excerpt most directly contributed to which of the following later characteristics of the United States government?

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