Unit 3 Test Question History
Explain the causes and effects of the Seven Years’ War (the French and Indian War).
Colonial rivalry intensified between Britain and France in the mid-18th century.
The growing population of the British colonies expanded into the interior of North America.
Britain achieved a major expansion of its territorial holdings by defeating the French.
After the British victory, imperial officials' attempts to prevent colonists from moving westward generated colonial opposition, while native groups sought to both continue trading with Europeans and resist the encroachments of colonists on tribal lands.
Explain the causes and effects of the Stamp Act.
Parliament makes Stamp Act to deal with debt
2 things that precede the Stamp Act:
The new king and minister of finance and trade (Grenville) are still putting people out there, maintaining the navy, etc.
Colonists are worried about a precedent of future taxation, violation of rights with no representation as their legislatures should be doing it, the act was regulated,
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL TAXATION.
Explain how British colonial policies regarding North America led to the Revolutionary War.
New British efforts to collect taxes without direct colonial representation or consent and to assert imperial authority in the colonies began to unite the colonists against perceived and real constraints on their economic activities and political rights.
Explain how and why colonial attitudes about government and the individual changed in the years leading up to the American Revolution.
Enlightenment ideas and philosophy inspired many American political thinkers to emphasize individual talent over hereditary privilege.
Religion strengthened Americans' view of themselves as a people blessed with liberty.
The colonists' belief in the superiority of republican forms of government based on the natural rights of the people found expression in Thomas Paine's Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence.
Explain how various factors contributed to the American victory in the Revolution.
The Patriot cause succeeded because of the actions of colonial militias and the Continental Army,
George Washington's military leadership,
The colonists' ideological commitment and resilience,
And assistance sent by European allies.
Explain the different ideological positions on the structure and function of the federal government.
Delegates proposed a new constitution. In the debate over ratifying the Constitution.
Anti-Federalists opposing ratification battled with Federalists, whose principles were articulated in the Federalist Papers (primarily written by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison).
Federalists ensured the ratification of the Constitution by promising the addition of a Bill of Rights that enumerated individual rights and explicitly restricted the powers of the federal
Explain the causes and effects of the Articles of Confederation and how the US Constitution remedied many of the problems.
It led to a weak national government and economic problems. The U.S. Constitution remedied these issues by
establishing a stronger federal government and creating a system of checks and balances.