Chapter 2 A New Nation   1. The main purpose of the French and Indian War was a struggle ____________     A) to keep the Native Americans out of the colonies.     B) for control of North America.     C) for independence from British rule.     D) to unite the colonies.   2. What was the purpose of the Proclamation of 1763?     A) to ban all European settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains     B) to give the colonists the right to live wherever they wanted     C) to abolish slavery in the colonies     D) to put an end to colonial resistance to British laws   3. Who introduced the principle of "no taxation without representation" into the colonial protest against taxes?     A) the House of Burgesses     B) Parliament     C) Sam Adams     D) Patrick Henry   4. Why did the First Continental Congress meet in 1774?     A) to support the Townshend Acts     B) to protest the Boston Massacre     C) to stop trade with Britain until the Coercive Acts were repealed     D) to support the goal of the Boston Tea Party   5. Ideas that are spread deliberately to help a cause are called ____________     A) treason.     B) Common Sense.     C) a bill of rights.     D) propaganda.   6. In which form of government does the authority to rule belong to the people and their representatives?     A) royal colony     B) republic     C) proprietary colony     D) monarchy   7. The Declaration of Independence was mostly the work of ____________     A) George Washington.     B) Benjamin Franklin.     C) Thomas Jefferson.     D) George III.   8. What was considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War?     A) the Battle of Saratoga     B) the winter at Valley Forge     C) the Battle of Bunker Hill     D) the meeting of troops at Yorktown   9. What is the term used to refer to freeing enslaved African Americans?     A) veto     B) depression     C) bicameral     D) emancipation   10. What caused disputes among the states under the Articles of Confederation?     A) disagreement over slavery     B) Shays's Rebellion     C) dissatisfaction with Congress, which was too powerful     D) a postwar economic slowdown and a weak central government   11. What was the result of Shays's Rebellion?     A) It made people support the Articles of Confederation.     B) It caused a civil war in the United States.     C) It caused great alarm among people who believed in an orderly government.     D) It convinced people to move west.   12. Who was most responsible for drafting the Virginia Plan at the Constitutional Convention?     A) James Madison     B) Benjamin Franklin     C) George Washington     D) Alexander Hamilton   13. What was the "Great Compromise" about?     A) whether slavery should be abolished in the States     B) how to count slaves in the population     C) how to strengthen the Articles of Confederation to make them better     D) how to represent both large and small states in the national legislature   14. According to the plan proposed in Philadelphia, how was the head of the executive branch to be chosen?     A) by popular vote of the people     B) by special electors named by the legislature of each state     C) by representatives in Congress     D) by delegates at the Philadelphia convention   15. Those who were in favor of the new plan for government called themselves ____________     A) Anti-Federalists.     B) Compromisers.     C) Federalists.     D) Republicans.