A New Nation Assessment

At the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, delegates from 12 states debated

• how to organize a central government that was sufficiently powerful while maintaining a balance of power between states.

• whether the northern states ought to break away from the southern states and form a separate peace with Great Britain.

• whether to break away from the British Empire and form a new nation or to continue to demand reform from the Crown and Parliament.

The Sons of Liberty were

• a group of British loyalists who supported British taxation and policies.
• a secret organization formed in the American colonies to protest against British taxation and policies
• a Native American tribe that fought against the American colonies.
• a religious organization that advocated for peace and unity in the American colonies.

The New Jersey Plan provided an alternate approach to Madison's Virginia Plan. The New Jersey Plan called for

• abolishing the legislative branch altogether.
• proportional representation of states in the legislative branch.
• equal representation of states in the legislative branch
• giving more power to larger states in the legislative branch.

The Bill of Rights is the name given to the first ten Amendments to the Constitution. Why was it adopted?

• To protect individual rights and limit the power of the government.
• To establish a monarchy and aristocracy.
• To promote equality and social justice.
• To increase government power and control.

How did American colonists respond to the passage of the Townshend Acts of 1768, which aimed to raise revenue by imposing taxes on glass, lead, paint, and tea?

• Acceptance and compliance.
• Peaceful negotiations.
• Boycotts and protests

The minute men, American Revolutionary War soldiers so named for their willingness to fight at a moment's notice, reflected

• Colonial leaders' preference for local and state militias over a standing army in times of peace, as codified in the Articles of Confederation.

• The superior military training and organization of the American army compared to the British army, whose Redcoats were notoriously poor shots.

• Soldiers of the French Army. The tendency of American colonial leaders to overestimate the abilities of its army, who were never really ready in a minute.

The Boston Massacre is an example of

• The harsh treatment that white settlers visited upon Native Americans as whites exhausted coastal lands and sought to expand westward through violent means.

• The "mourning wars" undertaken by the Iroquois to replace deceased family members with captive

• How the presence of British soldiers in American cities fueled many of the colonial resentments that brought on the American Revolution.

The New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan were eventually brought together in the Connecticut Compromise, which created

• A bicameral legislature, featuring a lower house based on population and an upper house where each state had two votes.

• A three-part government with an executive, legislative, and judicial branches, providing checks and balances on each branch.

• a powerful legislature but a weak executive branch and judicial branch.

Which of the following best describes the most immediate impact of the Proclamation of 1763 on the British North American colonies?

• Colonist refused to pay British taxes until Parliament repealed the Proclamation of 1763

• Colonist began capturing and enslaving indigenous people in retaliation against Parliament.

• Colonist disobeyed the Proclamation of 1763, moving Westward pass the Appalachian mountains

In response to the Boston Tea Party, when American colonists dumped more than ten thousand pounds' worth of tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxation policies, Parliament

• Passed the Coercive Acts (also called the Intolerable Acts), a series of punitive measures aimed at subduing the Massachusetts colony.

• Reformed its taxation strategy toward the American colonies to tax imports and exports.

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  Revoked the charter of the British East India Company in the American colonies and focused on shipping tea to Africa and the Caribbean.