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in the years after the Glorious Revolution, political power in England shifted toward |
Parliament |
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During the first half of the eighteenth century, England’s administration of the colonies |
was loose, decentralized, and inefficient |
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During the first half of the eighteenth century, royal official in America |
contributed to England’s overall lax control of the colonies |
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By the 1750s, American colonies assemblies |
exercised a significant degree of authority to levy taxes |
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The proposed Albany plan of 1754 |
revealed the difficulties colonies had in cooperating with each other |
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As a result of the Seven year’s War, in North America, England |
confirmed its commercial supermacy and increased its political control of the settled regions |
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The major participants in the Seven Year’s War, in North America, were |
the Iroquois, the English, and the French |
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During the eighteenth century, in north America, the French differed from the English in Indians relations in that the French |
were more tolerant of Indian cultures |
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During the eighteenth century, in North America, the most powerful native group were the |
Iroquois |
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Through the first half of the eighteenth century, the Iroquois Confederacy formed agreements and traded with |
both France and England at the same time |
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In the aftermath of King George’s War |
relations between the English, French, and Iroquois deteriorated |
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What future revolutionary figure surrendered to French forces in 1754 at Fort Necessity in the Ohio Valley? |
George Washington |
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The first clash of the French and Indian War took place near what is now |
Pittsburgh |
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During the first stage (1754-1756) of the French and Indian War |
the Iroquois were allied with the English but remained largely passive |
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The French and Indian War was fought in |
India, the West indies, Middle East |
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The beginning of the end of the American phase of the French and Indian War was marked |
Quebec |
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According to the terms of the Peace of Paris of 1763 |
France ceded all of its claims to land west of the Mississippi River to Spain |
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Throughout the conclusion of the French and Indian War, American colonists |
sold and traded food and other goods with the French |
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Following the conclusion of the French and Indian War |
many colonists resented England’s interference in their local affairs |
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For Indians in North America, British victory in the French and Indian War |
had disastrous effects on their future |
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The French and Indian War in North America |
suggested that increasing England’s control over the colonies would not be easy |
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When George III assumed the throne of England, he |
was painfully immature |
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When he became British prim minister, George Grenville |
believed the American colonists had been indulged for far too long |
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The Proclamation of 1763 |
was supported by many Indian tribes |
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The Stamp Act of 1765 |
required colonists to pay taxes on most printed documents |
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The Paxton Boys and regulators both |
demanded tax relief |
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Legislation passed by the Grenville ministry in 1764-1765 adversely effected American |
New England merchants, southern planters, small farmers |
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The Stamp Act of 1765 |
helped to unite the colonies in opposition to the English government |
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Who among the following took the lead in protesting against the Stamp Act? |
Samuel Adams |
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British official Thomas Hutchinson |
had his home ransacked by anti-Stamp Act demonstrators |
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in 1766, in response to colonial protests against the Stamp Act, the British government |
rescinded the Stamp Act |
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The Declaratory Act of 1766 |
was a sweeping assertion of Parliament’s authority over the colonies |
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The Mutiny (or Quartering) Act of 1765 |
was regarded by objecting colonists as a form of taxation without consent |
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The Townshend Duties of 176 |
were taxes on what were called external transactions |
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Colonial protests against the Townshend Duties resulted in |
many colonists joining in non-importation agreements |
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In 1770, the Twonsend Duties were ended by |
Lord North |
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The story of the Boston Massacre |
was transformed by some colonists into a symbol of British oppression |
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The leading colonial figure in the Boston Massacre was |
Samuel Adams |
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English and American supporters of the English constitution felt it correctly divided power between |
the monarchy, the aristocracy, and representative assemblies |
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English and American supporters of the English constitution was |
an unwritten document |
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In the eighteenth century, under the English government’s theory of representation |
the American colonies were represented in Parliament |
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Taverns were important in the growth of Revolutionary sentiment because |
they become central meeting places discuss ideas about resistance |
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The Tea Act of 1773 |
followed a few years of relative calm between England and the American colonies, lowered the price of tea for American colonists, was intended to benefit a private British company |
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The colonial boycott of tea in 1773 |
was led by women who were the primary consumers of tea |
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The Boston tea party of December 1773 |
triggered acts of resistance in other colonial cities and took place after Bostonian failed to turn away ships laden with tea |
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Parliament responded to the Boston tea party by |
reducing the powers of self-government in Massachusetts |
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The Quebec Act |
granted political rights to Roman Catholics |
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Which of the following statements regarding the Coercive Acts is TRUE? |
Massachusetts became a martyr in the cause of resistance |
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In 1775, the Conciliatory Propositions |
was an appeal by the British government to colonial moderates |
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The story of Lexington and Concord |
occurred before there was a formal American declaration of independence |
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In 1775, as conflicts with England intensified, American colonists |
were deeply divided about what they were fighting for |
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Published in January 1776, Common Sense was written by |
Tom Paine |
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The author of Common Sense |
considered the English constitution to be greatest problem facing the colonists |
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The Declaration of Independence |
borrowed heavily from previously published colonial documents |
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The war effort by American colonists would be financed primarily by |
borrowing from abroad |
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As commander of the Continental Army, George Washington |
was admired, respected, and trusted by nearly all Patriots |
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As the start of the Revolution, American advantages over the British included a |
greater commitment to the war |
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In the Battle of Bunker Hill |
the British suffered heavy casualties |
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During the phase (1776-78) of the American Revolution, British military efforts were hampered by |
a series of tactical blunders and misfortunes |
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When George Washington crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night, 1776, he was intent on surprising |
Hessians |
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Among the following, who was NOT a British general during the American Revolution? |
Horation Gates |
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The British military campaigns of 1777 saw |
General John Burgoyne suffer a major defeat at Saratoga |
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During the American Revolution, the Iroquois Confederacy |
declared its neutrality |
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In early 1778, France |
worried that the United States would quit the war against the British |
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Which of the following nations did NOT oppose England during the American Revolution? |
Portugal |
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in the final phase (1778-81) of the American revolution , the British |
badly overestimated the support of American Loyalists |
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Which of the following statements regarding Benedict Arnold is FALSE? |
Arnold spent the last years of the Revolution as a prisoner of war |
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Which of the following was the scene of a substantial British victory in the final phase (1778-81) of the American Revolution? |
Guilford Court House |
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The Battle of Yorktown involved |
a combined French and American army and navy |
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The principal Americans who negotiated the peace terms with the British were |
Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay |
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Under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1783 |
the United States gained formal British recognition of American Independence |
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During the American Revolution, Loyalists |
constituted perhaps as many as one-third of the white population |
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As a result of the American Revolution, the Anglican Church in America was |
weakened |
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During the American Revolution, enslaved African-Americans in the colonies |
were assisted by the British to escape as a way to disrupt the American war effort |
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During the American Revolution, the first state to make slavery illegal was |
Pennsylvania |
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Which of the following statements regarding the American Revolution and Native Americans is FALSE? |
American Patriots had generally tried to persuade Indians to be neutral in the War |
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During the American Revolution, female "camp followers" |
assisted in the support of regular troops |
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In regards to the status of women, the effect of the American Revolution |
led some women to question their position in society |
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In 1776, Abigail Adams was an advocate for |
new protections against abusive and tyrannical men |
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In colonial America, under English common law a married woman |
could not own property |
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Following the American Revolution, as the Republic took shape in the 1780s, greater social importance was attached to women in the role of |
mothers |
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Post-Revolution American trade commerce was strengthened by |
the closing of British ports to American trade |
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In the thinking of most American political thinkers, the concept of equality meant |
there should be equality of opportunity |
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For most Revolutionary American political thinkers, the concept of equality meant |
there should be equality of opportunity |
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During the 1780s, in every new state constitution |
governors were prevented from holding a seat in the legislature |
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During te 1780s most state governments |
moved to limit popular power |
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in 1780, Massachusetts sought to revise the power of the governor by |
having him elected directly by the poeple |
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The Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty of 1786 |
called for a complete separation of church and state |
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Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to |
borrow and issue money |
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Under the Articles of Confederation |
each state had one vote in Congress |
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The Articles of Confederation were adopted when states gave up their |
claims to western lands |
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Shortly after signing the Treaty of Paris of 1783, the British government |
restricted American access to British markets |
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In 1786, a treaty negotiated between the United States and Spain |
was never ratified by Congress, thus weakening the national’s global prestige |
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The Ordinances of 1784 and 1785 represented an attempt to |
provide for the admission of new states into the union |
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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 |
created a single territory out of the lands north of Ohio, guaranteed freedom of religion throughout the effected areas, prohibited slavery within the effected areas |
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In the early 1790s the efforts of Little Turtle represented an attempt by Indians to |
resist by military force white expansion |
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The 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers |
forced the Miami Indians into negotiations with the United States |
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The 1795 Treaty of Greenville |
led the United States to recognize the sovereignty of Indian nations |
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As leader of a tax rebellion the 1780s, Daniel Shays and his supporters demanded |
a moratorium on debt collection |
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One effect of Shay’s Rebellion was it |
contributed to the growing belief the national government needed reform |
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