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AP U.S. History — Period 3 (1754–1800) — Drill 6

Drill 6 · Multiple Choice · Period 3: 1754–1800

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AP U.S. History — Period 3 (1754–1800) — Drill 6 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Period 3: 1754–1800. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.

This AP U.S. History Period 3 drill is based on an adapted loyalist pamphlet by Anglican minister Samuel Seabury (1775). Questions analyze Seabury's rhetorical strategy, his critique of colonial resistance committees, his central argument, and the broader context of Loyalist opposition to the revolutionary movement.

Passage

The following is adapted from a pamphlet written by Anglican minister Samuel Seabury of New York, published in 1775 in response to the colonial resistance movement. If I must be enslaved, let it be by a King at least, and not by a parcel of upstart, lawless committee-men. If I must be devoured, let me be devoured by the jaws of a lion, and not gnawed to death by rats and vermin. You have been told that the Parliament of Great Britain has no right to tax you without your consent. Be it so. Waiving that point. Have you considered how you are to defend yourselves against the power of Great Britain, should she think fit to chastise your refractory behavior? Your militia are undisciplined and officers without experience. You have neither a navy, a sufficient army, nor the money to raise either. Recollect what you are about before you proceed further.

Questions in This Drill

  1. Seabury's use of the phrase 'gnawed to death by rats and vermin' to describe rule by colonial committees most directly serves to
  2. Which of the following best describes the central argument Seabury makes in this passage?
  3. Seabury's argument that colonial resistance leaders are 'lawless committee-men' reflects which of the following tensions in colonial America during the 1770s?
  4. A historian studying the limits of Seabury's perspective as a historical source would most likely note that
  5. The Loyalist position represented by Seabury most directly contributed to which of the following broader developments during and after the American Revolution?