A New Nation-Part 1 (Leadership)

What two major plans were offered as replacements for the Articles of Confederation at the Constitutional Convention in 1787?

• The New Jersey and Virginia Plans

• The New Jersey and Georgia Plans

  
  

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  The Connecticut and Virginia Plans

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  The Pennsylvania and South Carolina Plans

Which of the following BEST describes why delegates from the 13 colonies met in Philadelphia at the First Continental Congress in 1774?

• The 13 colonies wanted to seek immediate independence from Great Britain.

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  The colonists wanted to boycott all British goods.

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  Parliament requested a meeting of all colonial legislatures.

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  The British Parliament had levied a series of unfair taxes and acts on the American colonists in the years following the French Indian War (1763 to 1774).

Which of these actions did the Second Continental Congress take when it convened in May 1775?

• Set up a committee to conduct foreign relations.

  
  

• Appointed George Washington as commander of the new Continental Army.

• Began printing Continental currency (money).

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  All of these

This patriot wrote COMMON SENSE, the pamphlet published in January 1776, which made a passionate plea for the colonists to break with Great Britain.

• John Adams

• Thomas Paine

• James Madison

• Thomas Jefferson

In the late spring of 1776, which Virginian was asked by the Second Continental Congress to draft the Declaration of Independence?

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• James Madison

• Benjamin Franklin

Which English Enlightenment Thinker's ideas are clearly interwoven into the American Declaration of Independence?

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Thomas Locke

After the Declaration of Independence in 1776, which national government did the Continental Congress establish?

• The U.S. Constitution

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Government of the United States

• The Articles of Confederation

What treaty negotiated the final peace settlement between the Americans and the British in 1783?

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Yorktown

• Treaty of London

• Treaty of Philadelphia

What was Shay’s Rebellion?

• n armed revolt of Boston merchants demanding an end to taxes by the state of Massachusetts.

• An armed uprising by farmers in Western Massachusetts in response to a debt crisis and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes.

• An armed uprising by former Continental Army soldiers which began in Massachusetts but spread through all the New England states.

• An armed revolt by farmers in Virginia demanding tax relief.

Which Enlightenment philosopher had a considerable influence on the U.S. Constitution?

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu