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- 1. The Great Awakening of the 18th century can be most accurately
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- (A) an intellectual revolution similar to the European Enlightenment
- (B) an intercolonial religious revival
- (C) the increase in rebellious spirit among colonists during the 1770s
- (D) the British realization that North American colonies were a vital
- part of the British Empire
- (E) an increase of trade and commerce in the colonial economy
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- (B) It was a series of revivals.
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- 2. Mercantilists in the 18th century believed in all of the following EXCEPT:
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- (A) a favorable balance of trade is good for the nation
- (B) a state treasury should accumulate bullion
- (C) exports should exceed imports
- (D) a decentralized government with limited powers is good for trade
- (E) a state needs colonies for markets and raw materials
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- (D) Mercantilists believed a strong government was needed to control trade.
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- 3. At the end of the French and Indian War, the British:
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- (A) ended the Navigation Acts
- (B) ceded Quebec to France
- (C) gave the United States the right to fish off Newfoundland
- (D) gave English colonies permission to establish an intercolonial
- legislature
- (E) forbade further migration into the Ohio country
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- (E) The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited settlement of the land that lay west of
- the Appalachian mountains.
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- 4. "Writs of Assistance" can be best defined as:
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- (A) search warrants
- (B) welfare laws
- (C) royal decrees
- (D) illegally printed paper money
- (E) letters circulated among colonial towns
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- (A) Custom officials were granted Writs of Assistance under the Navigation Acts
- to prevent smuggling. Colonists claimed that such writs were illegal.
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- 5. "Resolved, that whoever shall be aiding, or assisting in the landing, or
- carting of such tea, from any ship or vessel, or shall hire any house . . .
- to deposit tea . . . shall be deemed an enemy to the liberties of America."
- Who most likely said this?
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- (A) Parliament in the Tea Act
- (B) the Sons of Liberty in a Resolution
- (C) Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence
- (D) the Board of Trade in London
- (E) Massachusetts' Governor Hutchinson
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- (B) They were a patriotic group.
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- 6. The state constitutions adopted during the Revolution were characterized
- by all of the following EXCEPT:
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- (A) weak chief executives
- (B) elected legislatures
- (C) weak legislatures
- (D) property qualifications for voting
- (E) property qualifications for office-holding.
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- (C) During the Revolutionary era, the states were wary of strong executives.
- They therefore established strong legislatures with many powers.
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- 7. The Three-Fifths Compromise of the Constitutional Convention of 1787
- provided that, for purposes of representation and taxation:
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- (A) the votes of three free men were equal to those of five slaves
- (B) five slaves would be counted as three persons
- (C) slaves would be counted only if they exceeded three-fifths of a state's
- population
- (D) only three-fifths of each slave state's population would be counted
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- (B) 5 slaves were counted as 3 people.
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- 8. Which of the following could be considered a CONSEQUENCE of the Alien and
- Sedition Acts of 1798?
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- (A) the new popularity of the Federalist party
- (B) the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
- (C) Leisler's Rebellion
- (D) the Whiskey Rebellion
- (E) Washington's Farewell Address
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- (B) These two resolutions were a consequence of the 1789 Alien and Sedition
- Acts.
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