APUSH Period 3 Practice Test

The policies stated in the above law can best be seen as an example of

• capitalism

• communism

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  mercantilism

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  Enlightenment thinking

What accounts most for the scant success of the above law in modifying English colonial behavior in North America?

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  The rejection of Anglicanism in the colonies

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  Decades of the British government’s relative indifference to colonial governance

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  Weak economic growth and the lack of external competition

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  The presence of slavery and growing colonial wars

Which of the following had the most impact in shaping colonial resistance to the above law?

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  Colonial dedication to mercantilist principles

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  The growth of the African slave trade

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  Political thought shaped by the Enlightenment

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  Conflicts with American Indian groups

After the Seven Years’ War, Britain shifted its position on imperial regulations to

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  find ways to safeguard its borders and maintain neutral trading rights.

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  end trading, commerce, and negotiations with American Indians.

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  alleviate its massive debt from the war.

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  promote greater colonial migration to the West.

For some the Revolutionary War was also a civil war because of the role played in the war by the

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  Quakers

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  Loyalists

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  Native Americans

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  African Americans

Which of the following was the primary reason for Hamilton's call for African American soldiers?

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  The Declaration of Independence called for equal rights

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  The British were recruiting African Americans

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  The New York militia was short of troops

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  General Washington trusted that blacks would make good soldiers

Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States, ed. Charles C. Tansill. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1927) House Document No. 398.

The excerpt above is best understood in the context of the

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  increasing economic exchanges within the “Atlantic World.”

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  Anglicization of the British colonies.

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  spread of European conflicts to North America.

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  resistance to imperial control in the British colonies.

Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States, ed. Charles C. Tansill. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1927) House Document No. 398.

The authors of the excerpt above were most likely motivated by

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  resistance to imperial control.

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  Britain’s desire to maintain a viable North American empire.

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  the political thought of the Enlightenment.

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  the British government’s relative indifference to colonial governance.

Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States, ed. Charles C. Tansill. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1927) House Document No. 398.

The excerpt above is indicative of which of the following?

 

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  An ideology critical of perceived corruption in the imperial system

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  The colonists having grown accustomed to a large measure of autonomy

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  Growing mistrust on both sides of the Atlantic

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  The colonial production of commodities that were valued in Europe

John Dickinson, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies (New York: The Outlook Company, 1903), 75–78.

The passage above was written in response to

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  calls for a stronger central government.

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  debates over the issue of slavery.

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  British efforts to tax the colonies.

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  the perceived corruption of the British government.