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What was the principal reason that the Second Continental Congress selected George Washington to head the army in 1775? |
They wanted to squelch tensions between the colonies. |
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The Olive Branch Petition was: |
a last-ditch effort by the Continental Congress to urge King George to end the hostilities. |
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Why did the colonial army invade and seek to conquer Canada in late 1775? |
They hoped to add it as a fourteenth colony. |
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Even as they engaged in battles in 1775 and 1776, Americans continued to resist total independence from England for many reasons EXCEPT that: |
they needed British protection from other potential invading nations. |
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Who was the first person to propose that the colonies become completely independent of England? |
Thomas Paine |
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In republican governments: |
power flows from the people. |
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What is meant by "a natural aristocracy of talent"? |
That only the best-educated and socially situated men were qualified to lead. |
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In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson listed many things for severing ties with England EXCEPT: |
granting religious tolerance to Roman Catholics and others. |
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What could NOT be said about Loyalists, who did not want to break from England? |
A large majority were African American current and former slaves. |
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In terms of supporting the Revolution, most colonists were initially: |
neutral. |
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What is the military significance of Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas Day in 1776 and later surprising the Hessians at Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey? |
The victories proved life-saving to the colonists' cause. |
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The Battle of Saratoga proved vitally important to the American cause because: |
it encouraged France to provide much-needed military aid. |
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What was NOT among America's goals for revolutionizing international affairs after its battle for independence? |
Forging military alliances |
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The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was: |
the first treaty between the US and an Indian nation. |
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Why have women's rights activists historically regarded Abigail Adams as a heroine when there was no full-fledged women's movement in America until the 1840s? |
She urged her prominent husband, John Adams, to consider women's rights in the development of independent America. |
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The revolutionary war became a global conflagration because many countries played a role EXCEPT: |
Poland. |
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The American Revolution is most accurately described as: |
more of an evolution than a revolution |
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The aftermath of the American Revolution triggered many social changes EXCEPT that: |
inheritance laws were restructured so that all property would go to the family's eldest son. |
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What is meant by the term republican motherhood? |
Women as shapers of future citizens |
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The state constitutions that were drafted beginning in 1776 had many traits in common EXCEPT: |
limited legislative powers |
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Economically, most Americans after the Revolution were: |
worse off than before the war. |
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What single issue nearly kept several colonies from refusing to sign the Articles of Confederation: |
Western lands |
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Although a landmark in government, why were the Articles of Confederation ultimately replaced with the U.S. Constitution? |
The Articles gave Congress no power to regulate commerce or to enforce taxation. |
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Passed by the Confederation Congress, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787: |
banned slavery in the Old Northwest. |
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The United States faced many problems with foreign nations under the Articles of Confederation EXCEPT that: |
Latin American nations refused United States' imports. |
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Which of the following best describes Shay's Rebellion? |
A protest by debt-ridden farmers who were losing their land to foreclosures |
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The man nicknamed "the father of the Constitution" was |
James Madison |
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What was NOT among the reasons for revising the Articles of Confederation at the 1787 meeting of state delegates in Philadelphia? |
Protecting existing institutions, including slavery |
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The Constitution that was drafted in 1787 contained many compromises that secured its final passage EXCEPT |
a president elected by the people. |
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True or false: Anti-federalists opposed adding a Bill of Rights into the Constitution. |
False |
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The Articles of Confederation can be viewed as a reaction to life as British colonies because: |
it constructed a weak national government in response to Americans' fear of monarchy and tyranny |
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The Constitution created a government unlike any in the world at the time because it: |
Combined self-rule end of self-limiting system of checks and balances allowing for liberty in order |