Unit 2: Foundations of American Independence

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A major goal of the French in wanting to maintain control over the Ohio Valley was to

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merge their landholdings from Canada to the Mississippi Valley

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The most immediate objective of the Albany Congress was to improve relations with the Iroquois tribes.

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improve relations with the Iroquois tribes

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As a result of the French and Indian War, what did Britain feel it necessary to abandon?

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the practice of salutary neglect

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Which of the following is the correct chronological order? 1 - The Peace of Paris 2 - Navigation Law of 1660 3 - The Tea Act 4 - The Molasses Act 5 - The Albany Congress

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2, 5, 1, 4, 3

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Conservative delegates to the First Continental Congress

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argued for a middle course between self-government and the tyranny of the status quo.

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The Navigation Laws passed by England in the seventeenth century had a profound impact on England's American colonies in that they

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inhibited American trade with countries that were not under English rule

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The argument that "abuses and usurpations" by King George and his government violated the social contract that had existed between Britain and its American colonies was articulated in

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the Declaration of Independence

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Which of the following colonies did not send delegates to the First Continental Congress? New York, Georgia, South Carolina, Pennsylvania

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Georgia

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Some Americans who allied themselves with the British Crown believed they would receive greater religious freedom under British rule.

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They believed they would receive greater religious freedom under British rule.

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The Regulator Movement, Bacon's Rebellion, and the Paxton Boys

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indicate to some historians the undemocratic nature of pre-Revolutionary American society.