6. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 6: Loyalists in the American Revolution

**Quiz for Document 6.1: Joseph Galloway, Speech to Continental Congress (1774)**

Quiz for Document 6.1: Joseph Galloway, Speech to Continental Congress (1774)

Document 6.1: Joseph Galloway, Speech to Continental Congress (1774)

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Question 6.1

1. In Joseph Galloway’s speech, he discusses payment for a war: “other Colonies gave nothing during the war; none gave equitably in proportion to their wealth.” To which war does Galloway refer?

Bacon’s Rebellion

King Philip’s War

The French and Indian War

The American Revolution

Question 6.2

2. Which of the following arguments does Galloway make to defend the British Parliament’s supremacy over the colonies?

The colonies were discovered and settled by the British state and are its property.

The Parliament has existed for centuries, but the colonies are only 150 years old.

British colonial governors served as the colonists’ representatives in Parliament.

Parliamentary government had proved to be the most democratic form of government in history.

Question 6.3

3. Rather than declaring independence, Galloway suggested that the colonies should

continue to resist British taxation through the use of boycotts.

acknowledge Parliament’s supremacy and resign themselves to the status quo.

seek to ally themselves with another imperial power such as France or Spain.

reaffirm their allegiance to Britain and ask for more representation in its political system.

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