APUSH French & Indian War to Articles of Confederation

The idea of natural rights is best defined as

Rights belonging to all people because they are human

Which of the following was a weakness of the Articles of Casdasdasdasdonfederation?

Congress have no power to force the states to do what it wanted

Which statement best describes British- American relations after the French and Indian war?

The colonists began to question British authorityasdasdasdas

The great awakening is best described as

A series of religious revivaasdasd in the British casdolonies

The Sugar Act and Stamp Act are examples of how the

British tried to raise money in the colonies

Why did many colonists protest the stamp act?

The act taxed the colonists without their consent

John Adams estimated the colonists were split

1/3 patriots, 1/3 loyalists, and 1/3 neutral

The First Continental Congress voted to

call for the formation of colonial militias

The revolutionary war begin with the

battles of Lexington and Concord

As a result of the French and Indian war

France gained control of Florida

What was a major advantage of the American side in the revolutionary war?

Patriot forces were fighting on their own territory.

Which of the following exposed the inability of the federal government under the Articles of Confederation to put down civil unrest and prompted calls for a new, stronger central government?

Shays' Rebellion

The government of the articles of Confederation was successful in resolving the problem of how to

provide for statehood for western territories

Which of the following groups of immigrants heavily settled along the western frontier of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia and later led the Paxton and regulator uprisings?

Scotts-Irish immigrants

Which of the following was true of the continental Congress in its drafting of the articles of Confederation?

it was cautious about giving the new government powers it had just denied Parliament

The Northwest ordinance of 1787, considered by many to be the greatest success of the articles of Confederation Congress apart from the Declaration of Independence, did NOT

set aside large reservations for Indian tribes in the area, guaranteeing a generation of mostly peaceful relations with American Indians

historical events set in chronological order

Stamp act, Committees of Correspondence, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts

in the decades before the American revolution, the English colonial westward movement

disrupted the existing French-Indian fur trade

The government under the Articles Of Confederation consisted of

only a unicameral legislature

The ordinances of 1785 and 1787 were notable accomplishments because they

initiated a territorial policy that provided for the orderly creation of new states

The articles of confederation suffered from all weaknesses EXCEPT

prohibiting amendments to the original articles

Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense' was

A widely read criticism of continued British rule of the colonies

What was an outcome of the American Revolution?

it inspired a number of other independence movements

under the articles of confederation the United States central government had no power to

Levy taxes

The proclamation of 1763 prohibiting colonial migration west of the Appalachian Mountains resulted from all of the following EXCEPT

parliaments decision to punish the colonies for their refusal to pay taxes

A Native American uprising against the British in the Great Lakes region

Pontiacs rebellion

Restriction on trade

Embargo

tax on foreign goods imported into a country

Tariff

British law(s) that taxed colonial newspapers and other printed materials

Stamp act

A foreign soldier hired to fight in a war

Mercenary