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BEKKAH F -- Analyze the political, diplomatic, and military reasons for the United States victory in the Revolutionary War. Confine your answer to the period 1775-1783.

MARIELLE R -- Analyze how the ideas and experience of the revolutionary era influenced the principles embodied in the Articles of Confederation.

KELSEY M -- Evaluate the relative importance of the following factors prompting Americans to rebel in 1776:
 * parliamentary taxation
 * restriction of civil liberties
 * British military measures
 * the legacy of colonial religious and political ideas

MAGGIE C -- Settlers in the eighteenth–century American backcountry sometimes resorted to violent protest to express their grievances. Analyze the cause and significance of the following.
 * March of the Paxton Boys
 * Regulator Movement
 * Shay’s rebellions
 * Whiskey Rebellion