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• Why is Battle of Saratoga thought to be the "turning point" of the war?
  
• What led to the building of permanent settlements?
  
• What was the Committees of Correspondence?
  
• Who had greater success at the beginning of the French and Indian War?
  
• How did triangular trade affect colonial economies?
  
• Why did the Middle Colonies have such a diverse European population?
  
• Why was the land in the Middle Colonies attractive to immigrants?
  
• What were the roots and significance of the Stamp Act controversy?
  
• What other nations helped the Patriot cause during the American Revolution?
  
• What was the outcome of Bacon's Rebellion?
  
• Which compromise guaranteed that the slave trade could exist for 20 years?
  
• Why do you think Alexander Hamilton wanted to pay back the bonds from the confederation government?
  
• What were the names of the first political parties in the United States?
  
• How do you graph the equation by plotting points #3x + 5y = 12#?
  
• How did the French and Indian War help bring about the American Revolution?
  
• In a hospital ward, there are 10 nurses and 6 doctors. 4 of the nurses and 3 of the doctors are male. If a person is randomly selected from this group, what is the probability that the person is female or a doctor?
  
• Why was the government in Massachusetts Bay Colony the most radical in colonial America?
  
• How did the Treaty of Paris divide land in North America?
  
• What is the slope and y-intercept of the line #9x+3y=12#?
  
• What was the Three-Fifths compromise at the Constitutional Convention?
  
• What was the significance of the battles of Lexington and Concord?
  
• What was "the shot heard around the world"?
  
• How do you simplify #-9(y-7) #?
  
• Why did political parties emerge in the 1790s?
  
• What was the government of the colony at Jamestown?
  
• What did the Constitutional Convention decide to do about the Articles of Confederation?
  
• What was Hamilton's opinion of the American people?
  
• Who established a colony on Roanoke lsland?
  
• How do you write an equation of the line with the y-intercept of 5 and a slope of -1/3?
  
• How do you write #7403# in scientific notation?
  
• What was the English Colony east of the Iroquois confederacy called?
  
• What actions did the First and Second Continental Congresses take?
  
• Who surrendered to the Patriots on October 17, 1777?
  
• Why did the Virginia Company establish the colony at Jamestown?
  
• How did the American Revolution become a world war?
  
• Why did the cotton gin lead to slaves becoming more valuable than without the cotton gin?
  
• What did the Coercive Acts close?
  
• Why did Washington bring troops to the Ohio River Valley in March 1754?