Question 1

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
League of Armed Neutrality

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Question 2

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Whigs and Tories (loyalists)

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Question 3

Which of the following conditions was not true of the state constitutions adopted during the Revolution?

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A)  A minority of voters typically elected a majority of assemblymen. 
B)  New constitutions could be amended only by the voters. 
C)  The new constitutions included explicit bills of rights. 
D)  They abolished property and tax-paying qualifications for voting. 
E)  In most states, elections became annual and the governor became an elected official.

Question 4

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Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Mid-Atlantic States and Old Northwest that correctly identifies each of the following: 
    
Princeton, New Jersey

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Question 5

What impact did other countries have on the struggle between Britain and its American colonies?

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Question 6

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Northeast that correctly identifies each of the following: 
    
Bennington, Vermont

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Question 7

What is the term used for the system of shared power and dual lawmaking by state and national governments as established by the constitution?

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A)  Functional separation of powers 
B)  Bicameralism 
C)  Virtual representation 
D)  Federalism 
E)  Localism

Question 8

Of all the political innovations of the era of the American Revolution, which can be considered the most radical?

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A)  the theory that power within a government had to be restrained through a series of checks and balances. 
B)  the realization that both houses of a bicameral legislature represented all the people, not just narrow classes. 
C)  the idea that political institutions should be judged by the standard of whether they served the public good rather than the interests of the powerful few. 
D)  the assertion that government was based on the consent of the governed and that revolution, therefore, was sometimes justifiable. 
E)  the introduction of government with powers divided among three branches.

Question 9

Which state made the proposal to create a bicameral national legislature, with representation based proportionally on each state's population?

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A)  New Jersey 
B)  Connecticut 
C)  Pennsylvania 
D)  Virginia 
E)  North Carolina

Question 10

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Northeast that correctly identifies each of the following: 
    
Ticonderoga

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Question 11

What political concerns were reflected in the first state constitutions and Articles of Confederation?

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Question 12

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Northeast that correctly identifies each of the following: 
    
Long Island

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Question 13

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Northeast that correctly identifies each of the following: 
    
Berkshire Mountains

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Question 14

Joseph Brant was

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A)  the Mohawk chief who, as leader of the Iroquois confederation, sided with the British during the Revolution and later became the inspiration behind Indian resistance in the Northwest 
B)  the most famous African American to fight for the Americans during the Revolution 
C)  the author who was lynched in Boston because of his pamphlet arguing that Anglo-American compromise and peace would be preferable to transatlantic war and possible independence 
D)  the leader of the pro-American peace party in the House of Commons 
E)  the main spokesman for the Antifederalists in the battle over ratification of the Constitution

Question 15

Which of the following facts concerning the Northwest Ordinance is not true?

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A)  It forbade slavery in the Northwest Territory. 
B)  It permitted the citizens of a territory to elect a legislature and make their own laws. 
C)  It permitted the citizens of a territory to write a state constitution and apply to Congress for admission as a new state. 
D)  It outlined the steps for the creation and admission of new states. 
E)  It removed Native Americans and guaranteed white settlers the right to buy land in the territory.

Question 16

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Northeast that correctly identifies each of the following: 
    
Albany, New York

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Question 17

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Treaty of Paris

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Question 18

What were the terms of the Peace of Paris? Why did the United States receive as much as it did? What problems did the peace treaty leave unresolved?

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Question 19

According to the Northwest Ordinance, a territory could be admitted as a new state when

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A)  it adopted a constitution prohibiting slavery. 
B)  it could prove that it had eliminated the presence of Indians. 
C)  its people voted to accept the Constitution. 
D)  its population reached 60,000. 
E)  it was able to provide at least $1 million in annual tax revenues.

Question 20

Discuss the impact that the American Revolution had on American social structure. In what ways did "the Revolutionary era set in motion significant social changes"? How did the war democratize the political assumptions of Americans?

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Exam 6: Securing Independence, Defining Nationhood

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. League of Armed Neutrality

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Whigs and Tories (loyalists)

Which of the following conditions was not true of the state constitutions adopted during the Revolution?

MAP QUESTIONS Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Mid-Atlantic States and Old Northwest that correctly identifies each of the following: Princeton, New Jersey

What impact did other countries have on the struggle between Britain and its American colonies?

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Northeast that correctly identifies each of the following: Bennington, Vermont

What is the term used for the system of shared power and dual lawmaking by state and national governments as established by the constitution?

Of all the political innovations of the era of the American Revolution, which can be considered the most radical?

Which state made the proposal to create a bicameral national legislature, with representation based proportionally on each state's population?

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Northeast that correctly identifies each of the following: Ticonderoga

What political concerns were reflected in the first state constitutions and Articles of Confederation?

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Northeast that correctly identifies each of the following: Long Island

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Northeast that correctly identifies each of the following: Berkshire Mountains

Joseph Brant was

Which of the following facts concerning the Northwest Ordinance is not true?

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Northeast that correctly identifies each of the following: Albany, New York

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Treaty of Paris

What were the terms of the Peace of Paris? Why did the United States receive as much as it did? What problems did the peace treaty leave unresolved?

According to the Northwest Ordinance, a territory could be admitted as a new state when

Discuss the impact that the American Revolution had on American social structure. In what ways did "the Revolutionary era set in motion significant social changes"? How did the war democratize the political assumptions of Americans?