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A colonist who supported Great Britain and wanted the colonies to remain part of Britain.
Loyalist
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A colonist who supported American independence from Great Britain.
Patriot
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Which statement BEST describes an effect of the British policy of salutary neglect?
1. The colonies developed an aptitude for self-governing.
2. Colonial governors became more powerful than assemblies.
3. American colonists stopped sending raw materials to England.
4. Parliament increased its military supervision of the colonies.
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The first of these was passed in 1651, with the primary rule that no goods grown or manufactured in Africa, the Americas, or Asia could be brought into England except in English vessels. Additionally, goods from any European country imported into England must be brought in British ships or in the ships of the country that produced them.
In 1660, a more infamous part of this act was passed. It forbade importing goods into or exporting goods out of the British colonies unless British ships were used in the process. Additionally, certain products such as cotton, sugar, & tobacco could not be shipped to any country except England or to another English colony.
According to the passage, which of these choices would have been ILLEGAL in the late 1600s?
1. A farmer in Georgia trades food goods with a shipbuilder in Massachusetts.
2. A merchant in the Maryland Colony unloads fur from a Spanish ship in exchange for corn.
3. A trader in London purchases wine directly off of a ship from the southern coast of France.
4. A planter in the Virginia Colony trades tobacco to a South Carolina plantation owner for cotton.
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Principle that the purpose of colonies was to economically benefit the mother country.
Mercantilism
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The idea that political power should rest with the citizens instead of the government.
Consent of the Governed
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- The Boston Massacre, 1770
- The Battle of Lexington, 1775
- Articles of Confederation ratified, 1781
- Treaty of Paris signed, 1783
The dates and incidents listed are associated MOST closely with...
The American Revolution
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In 1773, the Sons of Liberty protested a British law that gave the British East India Company exclusive rights to sell a specific product in the American colonies. What product was this?
Tea
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The Intolerable Acts, also called the Repressive Acts, led to what?
The First Continental Congress
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The "Founding Fathers" focused heavily on unalienable rights being guaranteed by the new United States government because of...
abuses Americans endured as a colony of Great Britain.
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Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that explained the Patriot point of view in simple terms.
Common Sense
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The crime of betraying one's country; what the Loyalists believed the Patriots were committing.
Treason
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“Man... hath by nature a power ... to preserve his property - that is, his life, liberty, and estate - against the injuries and attempts of other men.”
- John Locke, 1690
John Locke's views would play a DIRECT role in the creation of which document?
The Declaration of Independence
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"The Sovereign, having no force other than the legislative power, acts only by means of the laws; and the laws being solely the authentic acts of the general will, the Sovereign cannot act save when the people are assembled."
--Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Of The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right, 1762.
Which concept is central both to the Declaration of Independence and to Social Contract Theory?
the authority of the government should be derived from the consent of the governed
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Which statement offers the BEST explanation of the role that geography played in the Battle of Yorktown during the American Revolution?
1. Geography played no significant role in the outcome of the Battle of Yorktown.
2. Because the British held the high ground on the battlefield, they were able to force the French armies to surrender.
3. Because the British fortifications bordered the York River, it made it easy for the British troops to evacuate by naval vessel once they were surrounded.
4. Because the British fortifications bordered the York River, it made it easy for the American and French forces to surround Cornwallis' army and secure victory.
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John Hancock, among many other founding fathers, was a member of a secret organization that fought for the rights of the colonists and against unfair taxation by Great Britain. What was the name of this secret organization?
Sons of Liberty
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This illustration represents one of the taxes England imposed on the Colonies to help pay for what event?
The French and Indian War
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Colonial protests and boycotts against the Stamp Act eventually led to...
Parliament's decision to repeal the Act.
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The Battle of Saratoga (1777) was important during the American Revolution because...
it succeeded in securing a foreign ally for the Continental Army.
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By analyzing this chart of battles in the American Revolution, it can be determined that the Revolutionary War...
saw many of its final battles fought in the American South.
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What event from the years leading to the American Revolution represents the BEST example of using civil disobedience to affect political change?
The Boston Tea Party
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The First Continental Congress met in 1774 as a direct response to what?
The Intolerable Acts
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“And as this frequent interchange will establish a common interest with every part of the community, they will mutually and naturally support each other, and on this…depends the strength of the government, and the happiness of the governed. Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is…Freedom and security.”
-Thomas Paine, excerpt from Common Sense, 1776
“The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
-Excerpt from Declaration of Independence, 1776
What group or groups of people would support the views of Thomas Paine?
Patriots
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“Some people say that, because America has grown wealthy under Great Britain, the same will happen in the future. Nothing can be more false. . . . I answer that America would have become just as wealthy, and probably more, had no European power ever been involved.”
- Thomas Paine, 1776
The passage is taken from a pamphlet written in the 1700s. Which of these is the MOST LIKELY purpose of the pamphlet?
to convince the American colonies to separate from Britain
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Which line from the Declaration of Independence BEST represents the Social Contract Theory, as explained by John Locke?
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"He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."
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"We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America,... do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States..."
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"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..."
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"He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation."