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Unit III: American Revolution
Directions: Choose ONE question from this part. You are advised to spend 5 minutes
planning and 30 minutes writing your answer. Cite relevant historical evidence in support
of your generalizations and present your arguments clearly and logically.
1. Evaluate the relative importance of the following as factors prompting Americans
to rebel in 1776:
parliamentary taxation
restrictions of civil liberties
British military measures
the legacy of colonial religious and political ideas
(1992)
2. “ In the two decades before the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, a
profound shift occurred in the way many Americans thought and felt about the
British government and their colonial governments” Assess the validity of this
statement in view of the political and constitutional debates of these decades.
(1989)
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