UPSC World History – Chapter 3: The American Revolution (20 MCQs)

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1.  

The slogan "No taxation without representation" is associated with:

Correct Answer: D [the American Revolution]

Explanation:

American colonists used the slogan to argue that only their own assemblies, not a Parliament without colonial members, could tax them.

2.  

The Declaration of Independence was drafted mainly by:

Correct Answer: A [Thomas Jefferson]

Explanation:

Thomas Jefferson wrote the draft for the Committee of Five; Congress adopted it, with amendments, on 4 July 1776.

3.  

The Boston Tea Party (1773) was a protest against:

Correct Answer: A [the Tea Act]

Explanation:

The Tea Act of 1773 favoured the East India Company's tea; Boston colonists dumped its cargo into the harbour on 16 December 1773.

4.  

The pamphlet Common Sense (1776) was written by:

Correct Answer: D [Thomas Paine]

Explanation:

Thomas Paine published Common Sense in January 1776, making a popular case for independence and a republic.

5.  

France signed an alliance with the Americans after the battle of:

Correct Answer: B [Saratoga]

Explanation:

1777; alliance 1778.

6.  

The British general who surrendered at Yorktown in 1781 later became:

Correct Answer: B [Governor-General of India]

Explanation:

Cornwallis, 1786.

7.  

The first ten amendments to the US Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, were adopted in:

Correct Answer: C [1791]

Explanation:

The first ten amendments were ratified in 1791, two years after the Constitution came into force in 1789.

8.  

Under the Articles of Confederation, the central government:

Correct Answer: B [could not levy taxes]

Explanation:

Congress under the Articles could only request money from the States; it had no power to levy taxes.

9.  

Judicial review in the United States was established by the case of:

Correct Answer: D [Marbury v. Madison]

Explanation:

1803.

10.  

Consider the following statements:

1. The Philadelphia Convention drafted the US Constitution in 1787.
2. George Washington was the first President of the United States.
3. The US Constitution of 1787 abolished slavery.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Correct Answer: B [1 and 2 only]

Explanation:

The Philadelphia Convention drafted the Constitution in 1787 and Washington became first President in 1789; slavery survived until 1865.

11.  

Assertion (A): After 1763 the American colonists were less dependent on British military protection.

Reason (R): The French had been driven out of Canada in the Seven Years' War.

Correct Answer: A [Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A]

Explanation:

With France expelled from Canada by 1763, the colonists no longer feared French attack, so British protection mattered less.

12.  

The fighting in the American War of Independence began at:

Correct Answer: C [Lexington and Concord]

Explanation:

19 April 1775.

13.  

The Proclamation of 1763:

Correct Answer: A [closed the lands west of the Appalachians to settlers]

Explanation:

The Proclamation Line of 1763 reserved the lands west of the Appalachians for Native Americans and barred colonial settlement there.

14.  

Which feature of the Indian Constitution was inspired by the US Constitution?

Correct Answer: B [Judicial review]

Explanation:

Judicial review, first established in the US by Marbury v. Madison (1803), lets Indian courts strike down unconstitutional laws.

15.  

The Navigation Acts that angered the American colonists were an example of:

Correct Answer: C [mercantilism]

Explanation:

The Navigation Acts made colonial trade serve the mother country through British ships and ports – the core idea of mercantilism.

16.  

Arrange the following in chronological order:

1. Boston Tea Party
2. Battle of Saratoga
3. Stamp Act
4. Battle of Yorktown

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Correct Answer: C [3-1-2-4]

Explanation:

1765, 1773, 1777, 1781.

17.  

The Treaty that recognised the independence of the United States was signed in:

Correct Answer: D [1783]

Explanation:

Treaty of Paris.

18.  

The Intolerable Acts of 1774 led directly to:

Correct Answer: C [the First Continental Congress]

Explanation:

The Coercive or Intolerable Acts punished Massachusetts; the colonies responded by meeting in the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia in 1774.

19.  

Which of the following was a limitation of the American Revolution?

Correct Answer: A [Slavery continued in the southern States]

Explanation:

The Revolution proclaimed equal rights but left slavery intact in the southern States until the Thirteenth Amendment of 1865.

20.  

Which French officer fought on the American side in the War of Independence and returned home with ideas of liberty and rights?

Correct Answer: B [Lafayette]

Explanation:

The Marquis de Lafayette served as a major general under Washington and later played a leading part in France in 1789.

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