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World History Sec. 3
World Historyr Chapter 5 Sec. 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were some of the causes of change and crisis in the American colonies? | Taxes to pay for war, Stamp Act, Townshed Acts, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, start of American Revolution, Common Sense published. |
| What did the Stamp Act do? | required colonists to pay a tax for an official stamp on newspapers, legal documents, and other public papers. |
| What reactions did British tax policies prompt in the colonies? | Boycotts of British goods, tension with British troops, Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party. |
| If you had been the ruler of Great Britain during the unrest in the colonies, what would you have done? | Possible - To appease the colonists by keeping taxes at a minimum. |
| How was the struggle for independence affected by Enlightenment concepts? | -Social Contract led colonists to believe Great Britain could not rule the colonies without their contract. -Enlightenment ideas were used in the Declaration of Independence. |
| Who was on the committee to write the Declaration of Independence? | Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Ben Franklin. |
| Did the Declaration of Independence present new or old ideas? | Was influenced by the Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, but it presented those ideas in a new way. |
| How do you think the English government reacted to the Declaration? | Views were unchanged, still needed to keep colonies under control for economic reasons. |
| Why was the Battle of Saratoga a turning point in the war? | Americans captured large army; Franklin able to get aid from France. (in Paris,France) |
| How did American forces use their advantages to win the war? | Relied on Washington's great leadership; used knowledge of land to launch guerilla attacks; surrounded British forces on penninsula. |
| How did American colonies form a new government? | Replaced Articles of Confedertaion with a new Constitution and Bill of Rights. |
| What powers did the government lack under the Articles of Confederation? | Had no power to tax or negotiate with foreign powers. |
| How did the Constitution differ from the Articles of Confedertaion? | Created a federal system of government, divided power among three branches of government. |
| How did the Bill of Rights become part of the Constitution? | Group of opponents wanted protection for individual rights to be added to the Constitution. |
| In what ways were the American and French Revolution similar? | People rebelled against absolute monarchs and unfair taxation; replaced governments with Enlightenment principles of liberty, equality, and democracy. |
| Why do you think the French king supported the American Revolution even though his own government was similar to Great Birtain's? | Possible - Wanted to gain adavantage over Great Britain. |
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