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The idea of natural rights is best defined as
Rights belonging to all people because they are human
Which of the following was a weakness of the Articles of Casdasdasdasdonfederation?
Congress have no power to force the states to do what it wanted
Which statement best describes British- American relations after the French and Indian war?
The colonists began to question British authorityasdasdasdas
The great awakening is best described as
A series of religious revivaasdasd in the British casdolonies
The Sugar Act and Stamp Act are examples of how the
British tried to raise money in the colonies
Why did many colonists protest the stamp act?
The act taxed the colonists without their consent
John Adams estimated the colonists were split
1/3 patriots, 1/3 loyalists, and 1/3 neutral
The First Continental Congress voted to
call for the formation of colonial militias
The revolutionary war begin with the
battles of Lexington and Concord
As a result of the French and Indian war
France gained control of Florida
What was a major advantage of the American side in the revolutionary war?
Patriot forces were fighting on their own territory.
Which of the following exposed the inability of the federal government under the Articles of Confederation to put down civil unrest and prompted calls for a new, stronger central government?
Shays' Rebellion
The government of the articles of Confederation was successful in resolving the problem of how to
provide for statehood for western territories
Which of the following groups of immigrants heavily settled along the western frontier of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia and later led the Paxton and regulator uprisings?
Scotts-Irish immigrants
Which of the following was true of the continental Congress in its drafting of the articles of Confederation?
it was cautious about giving the new government powers it had just denied Parliament
The Northwest ordinance of 1787, considered by many to be the greatest success of the articles of Confederation Congress apart from the Declaration of Independence, did NOT
set aside large reservations for Indian tribes in the area, guaranteeing a generation of mostly peaceful relations with American Indians
historical events set in chronological order
Stamp act, Committees of Correspondence, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts
in the decades before the American revolution, the English colonial westward movement
disrupted the existing French-Indian fur trade
The government under the Articles Of Confederation consisted of
only a unicameral legislature
The ordinances of 1785 and 1787 were notable accomplishments because they
initiated a territorial policy that provided for the orderly creation of new states
The articles of confederation suffered from all weaknesses EXCEPT
prohibiting amendments to the original articles
Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense' was
A widely read criticism of continued British rule of the colonies
What was an outcome of the American Revolution?
it inspired a number of other independence movements
under the articles of confederation the United States central government had no power to
Levy taxes
The proclamation of 1763 prohibiting colonial migration west of the Appalachian Mountains resulted from all of the following EXCEPT
parliaments decision to punish the colonies for their refusal to pay taxes
A Native American uprising against the British in the Great Lakes region
Pontiacs rebellion
Restriction on trade
Embargo
tax on foreign goods imported into a country
Tariff
British law(s) that taxed colonial newspapers and other printed materials
Stamp act
A foreign soldier hired to fight in a war
Mercenary
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