Which era in U.S. history correctly replaces the question mark for the title of this diagram?

• Reconstruction

• Sectionalism

• The Revolutionary Period

• The Early Republic

This sequence of events resulted in the adoption of the —

• Articles of Confederation

• Bill of Rights

• Treaty of Paris

• Declaration of Independence

This cartoon shows a popular economic belief in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Which events in U.S. history are directly associated with this cartoon? Select TWO correct answers.

• Passage of the Northwest Ordinance

• Passage of the Navigation Acts

• Boston Tea Party

• Great Awakening

• Shays’s Rebellion

How did the American colonies react to enforcement of the Intolerable Acts?

• By collecting funds to pay for the tea destroyed in Boston Harbor

• By sending ambassadors to France to request military aid

• By placing a tax on all goods imported from Great Britain

• By holding the First Continental Congress to discuss unified resistance

Read the headlines and answer the question that follows. How did the American colonists IMMEDIATELY respond to the 1774 laws described in these headlines?

• The First Continental Congress declared war on Great Britain.

• The colonists adopted the Articles of Confederation.

• The First Continental Congress sent a list of grievances to King George III.

• The colonists adopted the Bill of Rights.

Which statement best explains "No Taxation Without Representation"?

• Colonists were upset by the punishment imposed after the Boston Tea Party.

• Colonists created this in order to address the causes of the Boston Massacre.

• Colonists were opposed to colonial laws being created only by Parliament.

• Colonists wanted to expand powers given to governors appointed by King George III.

What was the primary reason Parliament passed these acts?

• To promote the growth of cottage industries in the colonies

• To encourage foreign trade with the colonies

• To recover the cost of defending the colonies

• To fund the establishment of new colonies

How did mercantilist policies create tension between Great Britain and the colonies?

• By introducing indentured servitude to the middle colonies

• By requiring colonists to enlist in the military

• By limiting the amount of farmland each colonist could have

• By preventing colonists from trading with most other foreign countries

Which of the following best completes this diagram?

• Colonists sought military support from France.

• Colonists organized boycotts of British goods.

• Colonists signed the Declaration of Independence.

• Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor.

These acts contributed to the start of the Revolutionary War by —

• restricting colonial trade with American Indians

• imposing regulations on colonial agriculture

• angering colonists who believed that their civil liberties had been violated

• punishing colonists for resisting the authority of Parliament