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1. Where did Britain establish trade outposts around the world? WEST INDIES, NORTH
AMERICA, INDIA
2. What helped bring enormous wealth to British merchants in the late 1700s? CONTROL OF
THE SLAVE TRADE IN SPANISH AMERICA
3. What were the busy commercial centers in the 13 colonies? BOSTON, NEW YORK CITY,
PHILADELPHIA
4. In the 1600s, the British Parliament regulated trade and manufacturing by passing the ____.
NAVIGATION ACTS
5. By the mid-1700s, what did colonists feel entitled to? SAME RIGHTS AS ENGLISH
CITIZENS
6. What phrase did the colonists use to protest against the Stamp Act in 1765? What did this
phrase mean? NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. THEY
SHOULDNT BE TAXED BY THE KING IN ENGLAND WITHOUT
REPRESENTATIVES SPEAKING FOR THEM IN ENGLAND.
7. What was the British Parliaments response to the Boston Tea Party? PASSED HARSH
LAWS TO PUNISH COLONISTS
8. When did ,ighting between the colonists and the British start? April 1775
9. What did the Second Continental Congress decide in 1776? DECLARE INDEPENDENCE
FROM BRITAIN
10. Which ideas in the Declaration of Independence were from John Locke? PEOPLE HAD
RIGHT TO ALTER OR ABOLISH UNJUST GOVERNMENT; RIGHT TO REVOLT

11. What had King George III done to lead the colonists to rebel? TRAMPLED ON THE
NATURAL RIGHTS OF COLONISTS
12. How did France help the American revolutionaries? GAVE AMERICANS SUPPLIES,
TRAINED SOLDIERS, AND FRENCH WARSHIPS
13. In what year was the Treaty of Paris signed, ending the American Revolutionary
War? 1783
14. What was the United States ,irst Constitution? Why was it changed? ARTICLES OF
CONFEDERATION; IT WAS TOO WEAK TO RULE THE NEW UNITED STATES
15. Which Enlightenment thinkers in,luenced the writing of the Constitution in 1787?
LOCKE, MONTESQUIEU, AND ROUSSEAU
16. What did the Bill of Rights recognize? IDEA THAT PEOPLE HAD BASIC RIGHTS
THAT GOVERNMENT MUST PROTECT, SUCH AS FREEDOM OF RELIGION,
SPEECH, AND PRESS

5.3 The Birth of the American Republic

1. Where did Britain establish trade outposts around the world?

2. What helped bring enormous wealth to British merchants in the late 1700s?

3. What were the busy commercial centers in the 13 colonies?

4. In the 1600s, the British Parliament passed what regulating trade and manufacturing ?

5. By the mid-1700s, what did colonists feel entitled to?

6. What phrase did the colonists use to protest against the Stamp Act in 1765? What did this

phrase mean?

7. What was the British Parliaments response to the Boston Tea Party?

8. When did ,ighting between the colonists and the British start?

9. What did the Second Continental Congress decide in 1776?

10. Which ideas in the Declaration of Independence were from John Locke?

11. What had King George III done to lead the colonists to rebel?

12. How did France help the American revolutionaries?

13. In what year was the Treaty of Paris signed, ending the American Revolutionary War?

14. What was the United States ,irst Constitution? Why was it changed?

15. Which Enlightenment thinkers in,luenced the writing of the Constitution in 1787?

16. What did the Bill of Rights recognize?

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