Am hist, chapter 6

Deists and members of evangelical sects worked together to separate church and state.

true

During the Revolution, American Indians were divided in allegiance.

true

Indentured servitude went into rapid decline following national independence.

true

Initially, African-Americans saw the ideals of the Revolution as an opportunity to claim their freedom.

true

Loyalists who did not leave the country were quickly reintegrated into American society.

true

Militias did much to promote the expansion of political democracy in revolutionary America.

true

On the eve of independence, Baptists who refused to pay taxes to support local Congregational ministers were still being jailed in Massachusetts.

true

The American Revolution inspired the French Revolution.

true

The Declaration of Independence elevated the principle of equality to a central place in the American conception of freedom.

true

The years following independence saw the emergence of free black communities.

true

The estimated percentage of free Americans who remained loyal to the British during the Revolution was

20 to 25 percent.

Many Indian tribes were divided during the War of Independence. Some sided with the British while others, such as the _____ sided with the Americans.

Oneida

The foremost center of political radicalism during the revolutionary era was

Pennsylvania.

Three months after independence was declared in 1776, which state adopted a new state constitution with only a one-house legislature?

Pennsylvania.

Who wrote that he hoped to erect a "wall of separation" between church and state?

Thomas Jefferson

The Book of Negroes was

a list of African-Americans evacuated from New York City at the end of the Revolutionary War.

Phillis Wheatley is celebrated in American history as

a published poet and slave.

Which of the following was not a course adopted by African-Americans to advance the cause of emancipation during the revolutionary era? - lawsuits challenging the legality of slavery - assassination of proslavery public figures - petitions advocating freedom - enlistment as soldiers on each side during the Revolutionary War

assassination of proslavery public figures

Committed to freedom of conscience and thought, most patriots adopted a live-and-let-live attitude toward the Loyalists during the Revolutionary War.

false

The Revolutionary War strengthened the deep tradition of American anti-Catholicism.

false

During the Revolutionary War, a Massachusetts group of women accused a merchant of hoarding coffee. The group took matters into their own hands by

forcing open the merchant's warehouse and taking the goods.

The Treaty of Paris marked a change in which the balance of power

in eastern North America shifted away from the Indians and toward white Americans.

The first time in recorded human history that slavery was eradicated by legislative power of government was

in the United States when, between 1777 and 1804; every state north of Maryland took steps toward emancipation.

To finance the war, Congress

issued hundreds of millions of dollars in paper money.

While some 5,000 slaves fought for American independence, far more gained liberty by

obtaining sanctuary from the British