AAPUSH Period 3A

The principal Americans who negotiated the peace terms with the British were

Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay

Which of the following actions by the colonists is most similar to the one recommended in the excerpt above?

Boston Tea Party

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 eighteenth century?

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

Which of the following was a direct British response to the colonial views expressed by the Stamp Act Congress?

Declaratory Act staying the right to tax

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.

The British military campaigns of 1777 saw

General John Burgoyne suffer a major defeat at Saratoga

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.

The concern expressed in this excerpt helps explain why the British passed the

Proclamation of 1763

The resolution of the Stamp Act Congress expressed respect for which person or group?

The King

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

The ideas about government expressed by Paine and Jefferson are most consistent with which of the following?

The ideas of the Enlightenment

The ideas about government in the excerpt are most consistent with which of the following?

The ideas of the Enlightenment

The principles expressed by Paine and Jefferson best account for which of the following features of the United States during and immediately after the American Revolution?

The relatively limited powers of the Articles of Confederation

Which of the following is the underlying goal of the colonists in the excerpt?

Win political representation

The battle of Yorktown involved

a combined French and American army and navy

The excerpt could serve as evidence to support the argument that:

a republican form of government was superior to a monarchy.

King George'a rejection of the Olive Branch Petition demonstrates that he believed that most colonists

had always planned to revolt

The excerpt shows the intellectual influence of the Enlightenment in that it:

seeks to justify political systems with religious theories.

In the Battle of Bunker Hill,

the British suffered heavy casualties

When George Washington crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night, 1776, he was intent on surprising

the Hessians

As commander of the Continental Army, George Washington

was admired, respected, and trusted by nearly all Patriots

Which of the following best describes U.S.- American Indian relations during the 1800s, which can best 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.

Which of the following statements regarding Benedict Arnold is FALSE?

Arnold was an American military hero early in the war.

The excerpt was written in response to the

British government's attempt to assert greater control over the North American colonies

The excerpts were written in response to the

British government's attempt to assert greater control over the North American colonies

Which of the following documents most forcefully disagreed with the views King George expressed in this excerpt?

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Which of the following groups or individuals would have been most likely to agree with King George?

Loyalists

which of the following leaders from an earlier period represented a group in a similar situation as cited in this excerpt?

Nathaniel Bacon

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

Rule by the people, under a republican government

The protests by the Paxton Boys occurred during a period when many colonists were objecting to British policies that were a result of the

Seven Years War

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.

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 lessened regional and class divisions as colonists saw themselves as united Americans.

In the final phase (1778-1781) of the American Revolution, the British

badly overestimated the support of American Loyalists

For the first time, the Stamp Act placed on the colonies a tax that was

direct

Which of the following documents could also serve as evidence to support the main argument of the excerpt?

the Declaration of Independence