American Colonialism & Revolution

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Why was the ideal of equality problematic during the colonial era?

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it excluded slaves and women

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Why was the Mayflower Compact important?

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it was the first written framework of self-government in the American colonies

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What was the main source of wealth in the American colonies?

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land

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How did colonization impact the Native Americans already living in the New World?

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All of these impacted Native Americans: developed trade with the colonists, loss of land through wars and unfair treaties, settlers unknowingly brought deadly diseases.

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How did Great Britain obtain wealth from holding the American settlements as colonies? Options: through a system of democracy, through a system of mercantilism, by allowing the colonists to create a republic, through the Colombian exchange

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through a system of mercantilism

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By establishing a favorable balance of trade for Great Britain, the American colonies served as:

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a producer of good and materials to be sold to other nations

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Which of the following portrays the tensions that were growing between the colonists and Great Britain? Proclamation of 1763 banned all settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, British government began cracking down on smuggling and were searching homes, British government was in debt and passed the Sugar Act taxing the colonists, all of these show tensions between the colonists and Great Britain

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all of these show tensions between the colonists and Great Britain

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How did the colonists react to the Tea Act?

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they boycotted and destroyed entire shipments of tea

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What was the main message of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"?

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colonists should declare independence from Great Britain

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Which of these statements best describes the Declaration of Independence? a list of reasons why Britain would fail to defeat the colonies in battle, a list of colonists' grievances against the British king, a lost of colonists who supported the separation from Great Britain, a list of suggestions for improving British rule of the colonies

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a list of colonists' grievances against the British king