Time Period 3: Cold War Battle

Time Period 3 review questions for Bryant High School APUSH Cold War battle!

the Proclamation of 1763

15. What forbade British colonists to cross an imaginary boundary along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains after the French and Indian War?

The colonists demonstrated their willingness to use violence, rather than legal means, to frustrate British policy; The British maintained that the colonies had no right to independence from parliamentary authority; Patriot leaders claimed that the act denied them their British birthright; Many colonists believed they were entitled to all the rights and privileges of British subjects.

16. Give one reason why the Stamp Act was important.

Coercive Acts

17. What acts were passed by Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party?

Common Sense

18. What was the name of the political pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that called for independence from Great Britain?

Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson

19. Give two examples of American Enlightenment thinkers.

Deism

20. What is the name for the belief that God created a universe that is governed by natural law and that these natural laws can be discovered by the use of human reason?

John Locke

21. The philosophy of natural rights comes from the writings of whom?

1. The colonists believed that George III was a tyrant.

2. They believed that Parliament wanted to control the internal affairs of the colonies without the consent of the colonists.

3. They were convinced that British ministers and other government officials had a corrupting influence on the colonists.

4. They wanted greater political participation in policies affecting the colonies.

5. They resented the quartering of British troops in colonial homes.

6. They wanted to preserve their local autonomy and way of life from British interference.

22. Give two reasons that colonists supported the Revolutionary War.

Battle of Saratoga

23. What famous battle was a turning point in the Revolutionary War because it convinced the French government to declare war on Great Britain and openly aid the American cause?

A lack of authority to tax OR lack of authority directly over the states.

24. Give one weakness of the Articles of Confederation.

Provided the orderly creation of territorial governments and new states, Excluded slavery north of the Ohio River, Supported public education

25. Name the three things that the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 provided.

Shays’ Rebellion

26. Name the rebellion sparked by the economic frustrations of Massachusetts farmers who were losing their farms because they could not pay debts in hard currency.

Convince key leaders that the Articles were too weak and that the USA need a strong central gov’t

27. What was a major consequence of Shay’s Rebellion?

Bicameral Legislature

28. What was the Great Compromise in the Constitution?

Slaves counted as 3/5 of a person for representation and taxation

29. What was the 3/5 Compromise in the Constitution?

Alexander Hamilton and James Madison

30. Name a leading Federalist who was also an author of the Federalist Papers.

Anti-Federalists

31. Those, like Thomas Jefferson, who feared that a strong central government would become tyrannical were called what?

Secretary of the Treasury

32. Alexander Hamilton was the first ___________?

National Bank

33. Alexander Hamilton’s economic policies called for the establishment of a _______ ____.

Loose

34. Alexander Hamilton favored a _____ interpretation of the Constitution.

Strict

35. Thomas Jefferson favored a _____ interpretation of the Constitution.

Foreign Entanglements and Political Parties

36. Give the two warnings that George Washington mentions in his farewell address.