5. WARS AND EMPIRES, 1750

Quiz for Guided Analysis Document 5.1 Hermon Husband Causes of Armed Resistance in North Carolina, 1770

Quiz for Guided Analysis Document 5.1: Hermon Husband: Causes of Armed Resistance in North Carolina, 1770

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. According to Herman Husband, on what grounds does he defend the laborer’s claim to the land they worked, even without official paperwork?

Written law

Precedent

Inheritance

Court orders

2. Who does Husband blame for the loss of land and the uprising that followed?

The Regulators

Governor of North Carolina

British administration

Parliament

3. What does Husband argue was the motive of the British who came and took the land from the laborers who had cleared and worked it for years?

Desire to enforce the rule of law

Revenge for the increasing anti-British sentiment

Bitterness and anti-American bias

Desire for free cleared land

4. Why does Husband defend the actions of the Regulators?

They chose to use force only as a last resort.

They lost their life’s work to officials who did nothing for it.

They were confined to working only the poorest quality land.

They were Americans and could not be expected to behave.

5. What ongoing issue was reflected by the tensions between British officials and the Regulators?

Increasing American frustration with the British

Increased control over the colonies by Parliament

Decreasing power of the colonial government in America

Decreasing American success and productivity as a colony

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