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(04.03 LC)Where was nativist sentiment strongest, with the greatest potential for violence, in the early to mid 1800s?

(04.05 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects. The degree of security in both cases will depend on the number of interests and sects; and this may be presumed to depend on the extent of country and number of people comprehended under the same government. This view of the subject must particularly recommend a proper federal system to all the sincere and considerate friends of republican government, since it shows that in exact proportion as the territory of the Union may be formed into more circumscribed Confederacies, or States oppressive combinations of a majority will be facilitated: the best security, under the republican forms, for the rights of every class of citizens, will be diminished: and consequently the stability and independence of some member of the government, the only other security, must be proportionately increased. Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.”Source: James Madison, Federalist No. 51, 1788Which of the following later developments was influenced by the ideas in the excerpt?

(03.02 LC)Which of the following was not a reason for the success of the colonial independence movement?

(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, 1845Polk’s State of the Union Address, although celebratory, was a precursor to

(03.02 LC)Which of the following was true of the growing colonial independence movement?

(02.03 LC)How did disease affect interaction between early colonizers and the American Indians?

(05.01 LC)What 19th-century event caused the population of California to rapidly increase in less than two decades?

(03.01 MC)Question refers to the image below.© Norton 2015How did the Seven Years’ War affect British-colonial relations?

(04.01 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”SEC. 8. And be it further enacted. That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state, contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited: Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labour or service is lawfully claimed, in any state or territory of the United States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labour or service as aforesaid.”Source: The Missouri Compromise, 1820The Missouri Compromise would appeal to abolitionists because of its goal to

(03.02, 03.03 HC)Using the excerpts, respond to parts a, b, and c.”During the years from 1763 to 1767 a new colonial system had been created. This was not so much the result of a definite fixed policy as the outgrowth of the spasmodic attempts on the part of the English…to make the colonies pay a part of the expenses incurred for their protection, with the general intent to strengthen British authority in America. Marked by an invasion of the rights which the colonists held most dear, this new colonial system must be considered most unwise. Possibly any attempt to reform the abuses of colonial administration would have ended as disastrously, but certainly care should have been taken to avoid antagonizing the colonies by selecting the least objectionable instead of the most offensive measures.”Source: Roscoe Lewis Ashley, historian, American History, 1908″A revolution, unexpected in the moment of its coming, but prepared by glorious forerunners, grew naturally and necessarily out of the series of past events by the formative principle of a living belief. And why should man organize resistance to the grand design of Providence [the guidance given by God]?…Britain was the mighty mother who bred men capable of laying the foundation of so noble an empire, and she alone could have trained them up…The condition which entitled them [colonists] to independence was now fulfilled. Their vigorous vitality refused conformity to foreign laws and external rule. They could take no other way to perfection than by the unconstrained development of that which was within them. They were not only able to govern themselves, they alone were able to do so; subordination visibly repressed their energies.”Source: George Bancroft, historian, History of the United States of America, 1889 Briefly describe ONE important difference between Ashley’s and Bancroft’s historical interpretations of the increasing conflict between Britain and the American colonies in the years leading up to the American Revolution. 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 Ashley’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 Bancroft’s argument.