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- How were the middle class viewed by wealthy land-owners and aristocrats?
- What did William Wilberforce fight to abolish?
- How did the crop rotation system help increase crop yields in Great Britain?
- Which industry was the first to industrialize in Great Britain?
- What was improved by the process of enclosure?
- Who attacked whole factories in northern England, destroying labor saving machinery mainly because of poor living and working conditions?
- What is the key idea in the free-market system?
- What was the first industry to industrialize in the U. S.?
- Who defended the idea of a free economy, or free markets, in his 1776 book The Wealth of Nations"?
- The Treaty of Paris, 1763 ended the fighting in the French and Indian War. Which of the following countries WAS NOT involved in signing the treaty?
- This document theoretically protected the interests of Native Americans at the expense of British colonists in America. Which was it?
- The First Continental Congress met in September 1774. Which of the following WAS NOT one of the three goals they intended to accomplish?
- T/F The British theory of virtual representation argued that the colonials were represented in Parliament.
- T/F Americans insisted that they be taxed by their own assemblies because they held to John Locke's dictum, no taxation without representation.
- The British monarch on the throne during the events leading up to the American Revolution was
- The skirmish between British troops and colonial militia that became known as the "shot heard round the world" occurred at ____________________?
- Which of the following individuals' actions touched off the events in the Ohio Country that led to the outbreak of the Seven Years' War?
- T/F The Navigation Acts widened the terms of the imperial debate, intensified resistance within the colonies, and, most importantly, provoked the first real display of intercolonial unity.
- T/F The Sons of Liberty, emerging in the Stamp Act protest, drew their members from the ranks of traders, lawyers, and prosperous artisans.
- In early July, 1755 a column of British troops and colonial militia was ambushed and routed as they attempted to march on Fort Dusquesne at the forks of the Ohio River. The battle took place along the ________________ River and resulted in the death of the British commander, General ________________.