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What war incurred serious debt for Great Britain, leading to the King and Parliament adopting a series of taxes on the colonists?

What year was the Declaration of Independence passed?

What is the name of the intellectual and philosophical movement that predominated in Europe and North America in the 1600s and 1700s? It included ideals such as liberty, separation of church and state, and rule of law.

The economic shift in the 1700s wherein ordinary people began buying goods (clothes, tools, furniture, etc.), rather than producing their own, is known as _________

What law, passed by John Adams, allowed the federal government to deport foreign nationals and to arrest people for anti-government speech?

Which event was fundamental to the development of racial categories such as ‘Black’ and ‘White?’

The cultural expectation that women would inculcate the values of republicanism in the next generation was known as what?

Give one of the causes for the American Revolution (long-term or short-term/immediate). Explain it.

There were two aspects of Maya culture that set them apart from the Aztecs and Inca. One was their fully developed writing system. What was the other?

The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution are known as ________