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. 
Jay-Gardoqui Treaty

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Question 2

Who fought for the rights of black Americans in Massachusetts and the United States in the 1780s?

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A)  William Lloyd Garrison 
B)  Agrippa Hull 
C)  Prince Hall 
D)  Frederick Douglas 
E)  Denmark Vesey

Question 3

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. 
Battle of Brandywine Creek

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Question 4

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. 
Treaties of Fort Stanwix, Fort McIntosh, and Fort Finney

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Question 5

Alexander McGillivray prove to be a shrewd leader by carefully strengthening

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A)  the Creek Indians so they could expel whites from their lands and gain concessions from Georgia. 
B)  the Cherokee Indians and gained concessions from North Carolina. 
C)  the Huron Indians and gained concessions from New York. 
D)  the Wabash Indians and gained concessions from Ohio. 
E)  the Powhatan Indians and gained concessions from Virginia.

Question 6

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. 
Bicameral legislatures

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Question 7

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. 
Federalists and Antifederalists

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Question 8

What beliefs did loyalists and patriots share?

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A)  They were all opposed to secession from Britain. 
B)  They both opposed Parliament's claim of authority to tax the colonies. 
C)  They worried about what would happen if the patriots should be victorious. 
D)  They agreed that those on the losing side should forfeit their rights to any land they held. 
E)  They both thought that for the greater good, it would be important to rally behind whichever side was ultimately victorious.

Question 9

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

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Question 10

What were the causes and consequences of Shays's Rebellion? Why was the rebellion significant to the adoption of a new constitution?

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Question 11

What did the term "democrat" imply for most elite leaders of the American Revolution?

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A)  mob rule and or rule by an uneducated multitude. 
B)  virtuous leaders elected for their superior talents and commitment to the public good 
C)  universal suffrage 
D)  a large, powerful, and intrusive federal government 
E)  a weak defense policy and frequent military defeat.

Question 12

Which of the following men was a leader of the Anti-Federalists?

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A)  Ben Franklin 
B)  George Mason 
C)  Thomas Jefferson 
D)  James Oglethorpe 
E)  William Penn

Question 13

How could the American army in the early years of the War for Independence be characterized?

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A)  It was a well-trained army with a strong tradition of bravery under fire. 
B)  It was not trained to fight pitched battles against professional armies. 
C)  It was buoyed by a string of exhilarating victories. 
D)  It was uncoordinated because of the influence of foreign troops who did not speak English. 
E)  It was floundering because of a lack of effective or respected leaders.

Question 14

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. 
James Madison, Constitution of the United States

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Question 15

Which statement concerning the delegates to the Constitutional Convention is most accurate?

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A)  They were dominated by the great farmers from the mid-Atlantic and southern states. 
B)  They tended to be wealthy lawyers in their thirties and forties. 
C)  They were predominantly America's "elder statesmen," the generation that had shaped the nation's destiny since the 1750s. 
D)  They were mainly merchants, shippers, and businessmen with a solidly commercial, international outlook. 
E)  They represented a cross-section of American society in the 1780s.

Question 16

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. 
Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, Connecticut Compromise

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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. 
Loyalists

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Question 18

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the southern United States that correctly identifies each of the following: 
    
Camden, South Carolina

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Question 19

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. 
Hessians

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Question 20

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

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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. Jay-Gardoqui Treaty

Who fought for the rights of black Americans in Massachusetts and the United States in the 1780s?

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. Battle of Brandywine Creek

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. Treaties of Fort Stanwix, Fort McIntosh, and Fort Finney

Alexander McGillivray prove to be a shrewd leader by carefully strengthening

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. Bicameral legislatures

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. Federalists and Antifederalists

What beliefs did loyalists and patriots share?

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

What were the causes and consequences of Shays's Rebellion? Why was the rebellion significant to the adoption of a new constitution?

What did the term "democrat" imply for most elite leaders of the American Revolution?

Which of the following men was a leader of the Anti-Federalists?

How could the American army in the early years of the War for Independence be characterized?

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. James Madison, Constitution of the United States

Which statement concerning the delegates to the Constitutional Convention is most accurate?

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. Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, Connecticut Compromise

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. Loyalists

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the southern United States that correctly identifies each of the following: Camden, South Carolina

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. Hessians

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