Period 3 Test Questions

Which of the following was a seminal political development arising from the enactment of the full financial program of which the construct represented in the above graphic was a part?

Formal political parties organized in opposition emerged.

The above engraving was used as propaganda to promote which of the following?

Grassroots mobilization to defend the rights of colonial British subjects.

The above excerpt best illustrates the fact that colonists

Had developed a sense of self-government before the Declaration of Independence.

The above account best reflects which of the following about the American Revolution?

It was in part the result of a changing American identity.

The above passage best indicates what fundamental difference between English colonies and Spanish and French in North America?

Less restrictive policies than the French and Spanish introduced on who could or could not emigrate to the colonies.

Which of the following developments in British-American colonial relations most immediately led to the writing of the above document?

Many American colonists sought to directly resist British political authority.

By the time of the American Revolution, the above passage indicates that

Many colonists felt a sense of American identity.

The primary reason the Articles of Confederation restricted the power of the federal government was fear

Of tyranny that many colonists believed they had suffered under the British rule.

Which of the following ideals most justified in many American colonists' view their general political response to laws such as those above?

Popular sovereignty under a republican government

Despite its weaknesses, the Articles of Confederation experienced their greatest success in

Setting up a system of survey and disposal of western lands.

Which of the following developments from the British colonial era is the above excerpt most directly responding to?

The British king barred colonists from expanding further westward

All of the following causes led up to the event portrayed in the engraving EXCEPT

The British navy's refusal to protect colonial interests from the Barbary pirates.

Which of the following most contributed to the rise of the ideals as expressed in the above excerpt?

The Enlightenment ideal of natural rights.

The above passage supports which of the following statements about the American Revolution?

The Patriots had reasonable expectation that European countries would provide military and financial aid.

The above letter best demonstrates which of the following regarding American colonial relations with the British Crown by the mid-1700s?

The colonists had little interest in following British laws that opposed their own interests.

Disagreement over determining state representation in the Articles of Confederation Congress led to the Constitutional Convention to incorporate which of the following into the Constitution?

The division of Congress into the two branches, the House of Representatives and the Senate

Which of the following would most likely lead a historian to question the accuracy of the passage cited above?

The reliability of a firsthand account collected long after the event

Which of the following best describes the reasoning behind the financial construct adopted by the early U.S. government shown in the above graphic?

The wealthy lenders who would fund the national debt would have a direct interest in a strong and successful national government.

The ideal woman promoted after the war for independence in America and as echoed in the above the excerpt can be seen as a turning point in women's history in which of the following ways?

They gained a form of importance in American political life.

Which of the following best describes the effect of laws such as that above on how a broad number of American colonists' came to view themselves in relation to the British?

They moved many colonists to define themselves in opposition to the British government.

The above graphic best reflects which of the following groups' economic goals for the newly formed United States?

Those who argued for a centralized national economic policy.

Enactment of the financial construct represented in the above graphic reflects which viewpoint in the debates within the newly formed United States over interpretation of the Constitution?

Those who argued that the Constitution allowed for broader powers of Congress by implication.

The above engraving represents a general trend of colonial discontent occurring in which of the following time periods?

1754-1800

Which of the following visions from colonial America is most echoed in Jefferson's expression of his vision in the above excerpt?

A colonial vision of establishing religious freedom and laws made by a representative assembly of the people

According to the above the above excerpt, the American Declaration of Independence and subsequent victory in the war of Independence most directly led to

A movement towards political self-determination in several other nations.

Which of the following mid-nineteenth century American conceptions of womanhood is a direct derivative of those summarized in the above excerpt?

Emphasis among the middle class on the role of women as guardians of benevolence and moral instruction

Which of the following best describes the effect of European events and actions on political life in the newly established United States.

European actions and events affecting the new U.S. served to unite the political factions against a common enemy.

Which of the following best describes the British government's reasoning for its actions referenced in Washington's letter above?

For reasons of military expense and preservation of trade and land speculation for itself, it wanted to control westward expansion instead of allowing the provincial colonial governments to have control.

Based on the above excerpt, with which of the following statements would Thomas Jefferson most likely agree?

American democratic ideals should be spread as an inspiration for people around the world.

Which of the following best describes U.S.-American Indian relations during the 1800s, which can be seen as an extension of views as reflected in the above letter?

Americans showed a willingness to ignore treaties with American Indians to gain control of valuable land.

Laws like that above were long-term consequences of events related to which of the following?

Britain needed Americans to help pay the debts of the Seven Years' War as well as military expenses for defending the colonists against American Indians.

Which of the following best describes the British perspective in its relations with the American colonies by the latter half of the 18th century?

Britain saw the American colonies as a typical part of its empire, and the colonists had gotten too used to provincial self-government.

Which of the following best expresses the rationale for ideals such as that expressed in the above excerpt during the late 1700s and early 1800s in America?

Educated women were necessary to raising an informed and self-reliant citizenry imbued with the civic virtue upon which the envisioned republican form of American democracy relied