(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, 1845After this State of the Union Address, the statement that the annexation of Texas was born of a “choice of the people themselves to share the blessings of our union” was

(03.02, 03.03 HC)Using the excerpts, answer a, b, and c.”From the beginning of the controversy, the issue was representation, not taxation. Americans rejected out of hand arguments that the members of Parliament—men whom they had not elected—somehow represented the interests of colonists who lived 3,000 miles from London…British administrators had not anticipated such violent resistance, and in 1766 they reluctantly repealed the Stamp Act. They made it clear, however, that they would never again compromise with the colonists…The king and his advisors gave not an inch on the question of representation. Within a year, Parliament announced new schemes to tax the colonists.”Source: T.H. Breen, historian, “The Road to Revolution””Those accused of violating the Stamp Act would be tried in Admiralty Courts, which had no juries…The colonists protested that…it violated their right to trial by jury. Above all, however, they insisted that both acts levied taxes on them and that…Parliament had no right to tax the colonists because they had no representatives in the House of Commons.Several colonies unsuccessfully petitioned Parliament against the Sugar and Stamp Acts…What else could the colonists do? Allowing the Stamp Act to go into effect would create a precedent for new taxes, which Parliament would surely approve again and again because every tax on the Americans relieved them and their constituents of that financial burden.”Source: Pauline Maier, historian, “The American Revolution, 1763–1783” Briefly describe ONE important difference between Breen’s and Maier’s historical interpretations for the reasons behind the American colonists’ rejection of the British Parliament’s raising of taxes in the 1760s. 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 Breen’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 Maier’s argument.

(05.03 MC)Question refers to the map below.Public DomainWhy were there four main candidates in the election shown on the map?

(01.08 LC)Why is it important to diversify investments?

(01.02 LC)Which of the following groups were considered at the top of the caste system in New Spain?

(01.02 LC)Which of the following groups were considered at the top of the caste system in New Spain?

(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

(01.03 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”All this is related by Americo, who adds that they returned to Spain and arrived at Cadiz with 222 Indian captives, where they were, according to him, very joyfully received, and where they sold all the slaves. Who will now ask whence they stole and carried off the 200 natives? This, as other things, is passed over in silence by Americo. It should be noted here by readers who know something of what belongs to right and natural justice, that although these natives are without faith, yet those with whom Americo went had neither just cause nor right to make war on the natives of those islands and to carry them off as slaves, without having received any injury from them, nor the slightest offence. Moreover, they were ignorant whether the accusations of those of the mainland against the islanders were just or unjust. What report, or what love would be spread about and sown among the natives, touching those Christians, when they left them wounded and desolate?”Source: The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career, c.1500The practice described in the excerpt most clearly foreshadows which of the following?

(03.02, 03.03, 03.04, 03.05 HC)Answer either OPTION 1 or OPTION 2.OPTION 1:Respond to parts a, b, and c. Briefly describe one way in which colonists’ religious or social beliefs influenced their ideals about government from 1700 to 1770. Briefly explain how the idea you indicated in (a) contributed to colonial conflict with Great Britain from 1774 to 1783. Briefly explain how the idea you indicated in (a) contributed to the design of the government of the new nation between 1776 and 1800. OROPTION 2:Respond to parts a, b, and c. Briefly describe one way in which political ideas or institutions influenced the development of the early republic of the United States from 1774 to 1786. Briefly explain how the different views of key leaders influenced the development of political parties from 1787 to 1800. Briefly explain how one specific historical event between 1789 and 1800 challenged the ideals and principles of the early republic.

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