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(03.02, 03.03 HC)Using the excerpts, respond to parts a, b, and c.”I believe American independence was inevitable, not necessarily in 1776 but within decades. The continental colonies were growing too fast and as Paine pointed out there was something ridiculous about an island ruling a continent.”Source: Gordon Wood, historian, interview by the Journal of the American Revolution, 2013″Almost nothing is inevitable in history. One can easily envision counterfactual scenarios in which the American colonists, like their northern neighbors, resolved to remain within the British Empire and then achieved peaceful separation from Great Britain during the nineteenth century.”Source: Benjamin L. Carp, historian, interview by the Journal of the American Revolution, 2013 Briefly describe ONE important difference between Wood’s and Carp’s historical interpretation on the question of whether an independent United States was inevitable. Briefly explain how ONE specific historical event or development from the period 1754 to 1800 that is not explicitly mentioned in the excerpts could be used to support Wood’s argument. Briefly explain how ONE specific historical event or development from the period 1754 to 1800 that is not explicitly mentioned in the excerpts could be used to support Carp’s argument.

(01.01 LC)Pueblo Indians lived in what is now

(03.03 LC)Which of the following is true of American Indians during the American Revolutionary War?

(01.03 LC)The most significant initial impact on the Native American population from interaction with Europeans came from

(02.03 LC)Which of the following European contributions directly affected the nature of American Indians’ own intertribal warfare?

(01.02 MC)Use the image to answer the question below.© Bridgeman Art Library / Universal Images Group / ImageQuest 2024In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire in North America

(05.01 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”We have not sought to extend our territorial possessions by conquest, or our republican institutions over a reluctant people. It was the deliberate homage of each people to the great principle of our federative union. If we consider the extent of territory involved in the annexation, its prospective influence on America, the means by which it has been accomplished, springing purely from the choice of the people themselves to share the blessings of our union, the history of the world may be challenged to furnish a parallel…We may rejoice that the tranquil and pervading influence of the American principle of self-government was sufficient to defeat the purposes of British and French interference…From this example European Governments may learn how vain diplomatic arts and intrigues must ever prove upon this continent against that system of self-government which seems natural to our soil, and which will ever resist foreign interference.”Source: James Polk, from the State of the Union Address, December 2, 1845The ideas expressed in Polk’s State of the Union Address most directly support the growing sense of

(01.02 LC)Bartolomé de Las Casas argued that American Indians

(01.01 MC)Read the excerpt to answer the question below.”They neither care nor know anything of arms, for I showed them swords, and they took them by the blade and cut themselves through ignorance. They have no iron, their darts being wands without iron, some of them having a fish’s tooth at the end, and others being pointed in various ways…I was attentive, and took trouble to ascertain if there was gold. I saw that some of them had a small piece fastened in a hole they have in the nose, and by signs I was able to make out that to the south, or going from the island to the south, there was a king who had great cups full, and who possessed a great quantity.”Source: Christopher Columbus, from his journal entries dated 12–14 October, 1492Reports such as Columbus’s encouraged the European powers to

(01.01 LC)The city situated along the Mississippi River that served as a significant center of trade in the year 1200 is known today as