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Instructions: Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -the Articles of Confederation

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Why was South Carolina less likely than Maryland to support the revolution?


A) The Anglican church had more influence in South Carolina than it did in Maryland.
B) There were fewer Scots-Irish in South Carolina than there were in Maryland.
C) The South Carolina population had a much higher percentage of slaves than did the Maryland population.
D) South Carolina had a lower percentage of tenant farmers than did Maryland.

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Discuss why George Washington was selected as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, and evaluate Washington's performance as commanding general, specifying his strengths and his weaknesses.

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Instructions: Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -the New York military campaign

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Camp followers were usually


A) women who worked as cooks, nurses, and launderers while traveling with the American forces.
B) reporters who followed the American forces and issued daily news dispatches to colonial newspapers.
C) British spies who followed and watched the activities of the American forces.
D) people who followed the forces of either side for the purpose of watching their military engagements.

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Instructions: Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -Lord Dunmore's proclamation, November 1775

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Instructions: Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -the Battle of Saratoga

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Instructions: Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -the Battle of Yorktown

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Instructions: Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -the battles of King's Mountain, Cowpens, and Guilford Court House

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Which of the following was most likely to have remained neutral in the Revolutionary War?


A) A member of the Chesapeake gentry
B) A Scots-Irish settler in the southern backcountry
C) A Scottish settler
D) A city artisan

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The long-term significance of the Declaration of Independence lies in its


A) charge that Parliament used excessive force in the colonies.
B) statements of principle.
C) charge that the king was responsible for slavery in the colonies.
D) commitment to strong central government.

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During the winter of 1779-1780, many Iroquois bands left their ancestral homeland for which of the following reasons?


A) All bands that broke their pledge of neutrality and allied with the Americans were forced onto reservations by the British.
B) They were afraid they would be drawn into the Anglo-American conflict raging around them.
C) The Iroquois ruling council banished from the homeland all bands that remained neutral or allied with the Americans.
D) Their settlements and crops were so completely destroyed by an American expedition that they moved to Canada in search of food and shelter.

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Instructions: Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -the battles of Trenton and Princeton

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Discuss the different definitions of republicanism that emerged in the new American republic. What elements did Americans believe were necessary to ensure the success of a republican government? Explain how these views were reflected in the creation of both state and national governments between 1776 and 1783.

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What was a main source of funding for the new United States in the war against Great Britain?


A) a tax on each of the colonies.
B) loans from prominent citizens.
C) the sale of public lands.
D) printing paper currency.

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Which of the following was most likely to have been an active patriot?


A) A city artisan
B) An African American slave
C) An Anglican clergyman
D) A Pennsylvania Quaker

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Reassessment of their war strategy after the Battle of Saratoga led the British to


A) shift the field of battle to the south.
B) shift their attention to urban areas.
C) adopt guerrilla tactics similar to those used by the patriots.
D) concentrate their forces along the New England coast.

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Instructions: Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -loyalists

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Instructions: Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -George Washington as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army

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Which of the following is true of American soldiers and sailors held as prisoners of war by the British?


A) Over half of them joined the British army and joined the battle against the Continental Army.
B) Many died of disease because they received meager rations and were confined in prisons that were crowded and unsanitary.
C) They were usually treated decently and humanely.
D) At the end of the Revolutionary War, many of them sailed with their captors back to England.

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