Tổ chức College Board nói rằng kỳ thi SAT kiểm tra kỹ năng kỹ năng tư duy cần thiết cho sự thành công trong việc học tập ở đại học. SAT đồng thời cũng đánh giá kỹ năng phân tích và giải quyết vấn đề - kỹ năng mà học sinh học được từ trường cấp 2 và cấp 3. Những thí sinh của kỳ thi SAT thường là học sinh lớp 11 hoặc 12. Giữa các trường ở Mỹ có sự khác nhau trong việc đánh giá trình độ của học sinh như thang điểm, giáo trình học và độ. | REVIEWING THE COLONIAL PERIOD TO 1789 Patriots 3 shortages of supplies for the military 4 lack of a large well equipped navy 5 few Native American allies most of the Iroquois League fought with the British in an effort to keep the Americans from their lands 6 lack of European allies until late in the war 6 lack of unity Loyalists and those indifferent to the cause and 7 a weak central government for example lacking the power to levy taxes. As early as 1776 France had been secretly sending arms supplies and money to the new United States. In 1778 France recognized the colonies as a separate nation and agreed to enter the war as an ally. France lent the new nation money and sent a large contingent of well-trained and well-equipped soldiers to reinforce the Continental Army as well as a fleet that effectively hindered British troop movements. Spain and the Netherlands joined the war against Great Britain. Russia Prussia Denmark Sweden and Portugal formed the League of Armed Neutrality against the British navy. Historians estimate that from 20 to 30 percent of the colonists remained Loyalists. Although Loyalists lived in all states the largest numbers lived in New York Georgia and South Carolina. Many were officeholders wealthy landowners and merchants and professionals people who had financial ties to Great Britain. At the end of the war some 80 000 fled about half to Canada. Their property was confiscated by the states and sold. Although the fighting ended in 1781 the Peace of Paris Treaty of Paris was not ratified until 1783. Benjamin Franklin John Jay John Adams and Henry Laurens negotiated the following concessions 1 independence 2 the territory between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River from the Great Lakes to Florida the latter returned to Spain 3 fishing rights in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off Newfoundland 4 payment by both countries of debts owed prior to the war 5 agreement by Congress to ask states to allow Loyalists to sue for the value of their
