American Revolution Ch. 21 test

Question 1

What document from this time period was considered the world's greatest political editorial?

Accepted Answer

The Declaration of Independence

Question 2

What set the colonies apart from most of Europe?

Accepted Answer

The colonies had no powerful established church

Question 3

What did the Constitution & the Bill of Rights exemplify, specifically?

Accepted Answer

Classical Liberalism

Question 4

What was the largest (and most influential) group in the Americas?

Accepted Answer

The Independent farmers

Question 5

What did the Antifederalists fear the new Constitution would do?

Accepted Answer

It would take too many powers away from states

Question 6

What did the Federalists add to the Constitution in order to appease the Antifederalists?

Accepted Answer

The Bill of Rights

Question 7

Why did the Americans leave their French allies when it came to negotiating peace?

Accepted Answer

They feared France would take land in the Americas

Question 8

Who were sent in along with British troops to fight in the Revolutionary war?

Accepted Answer

German mercenaries

Question 9

Who declared war on Britain in order to help the Americans?

Accepted Answer

The Spanish, The Dutch

Question 10

What territory did the Treaty of Paris give to the Americans?

Accepted Answer

Between the Allegheny Mountians and the Mississippi River

Question 11

What was a consequence of the Boston Tea Party?

Accepted Answer

The port of Boston was closed

Question 12

What did the revolutionaries do to some of the Loyalists?

Accepted Answer

Sold their land

Question 13

The concept of multiple branches of Government systematically balancing each other is called

Accepted Answer

Checks & Balances

Question 14

How did the British try to fix their debt from the Seven Years War?

Accepted Answer

By taxing the colonies directly

Question 15

Why were Americans upset with the Stamp Act, besides the fact that it brought more taxes?

Accepted Answer

They did not want to pay taxes without representation

Question 16

What did the British have the Dutch East India Company do with regards to the colonies?

Accepted Answer

Ship tea from China directly to the colonies

Question 17

What year was the Treaty of Paris signed?

Accepted Answer

1783

Question 18

Who was the French Ambassador for America that convinced the French to directly join the war?

Accepted Answer

Benjamin Franklin

Question 19

Why did the British Government find the Stamp Act justified?

Accepted Answer

They knew that British people paid more taxes than Americans

Question 20

When did the Second Continental Congress adopt the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

July 4, 1776

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