The principal Americans who negotiated the peace terms with the British were
A. Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.
B. John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, and Samuel Huntington.
C. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay.
D. Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and John Adams.
E. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.
Answer: C
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Hamilton's proposal concerning the assumption of state debts became law as a result of which of the following?
A. A political deal was struck by which the site for the nation's capital was to be on the Potomac River. B. Having served under President Washington's command during the Revolutionary War, several opponents of the plan switched their votes out of a sense of duty. C. President Washington met privately with Madison and Jefferson, and convinced them that their opposition to the proposal was divisive. D. A joint Senate-House subcommittee agreed that those states that had paid their debts would be taxed at a lower rate than those whose debts were being assumed.
The colony whose charter was a grandiose plan, written with the help of political philosopher John Locke and designed to recreate a hereditary nobility and feudal society was
A) New York. B) Maryland. C) New Jersey. D) Carolina.
Canada's management of Indian affairs differed from that of the United States in that a. the Royal Mounted Police adopted a more aggressive stance against Indian resistance to acculturation. b. Canada granted Indians the rights of British subjects and proceeded more slowly in attempting to acculturateIndians
c. the Canadian government treated Indian tribes as foreign nations. d. Canada outlawed intermarriage between whites and Indians.
For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Winston Churchill and the "Iron Curtain"
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