chapter 6 (history)

false

Confiscated property of Loyalists was returned to them following the Treaty of Paris.

equal opportunity rather than equality of condition

For most free Americans in the new republic, equality meant

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.

false

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

Abgail Adams

What famous American woman wrote to her husband that the Second Continental Congress should "remember the ladies" when they drew up a "Code of Laws"?

training sons to be future citizens

Which of the following defines republican motherhood?

a published poet and slave

Phillis Wheatley is celebrated in American history as

true

The American Revolution inspired the French Revolution.

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

The Book of Negroes was

true

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

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

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

false

The authority of church leaders went remarkably unchallenged during the revolutionary era.

The Selling of Joseph

The first antislavery tract printed in America was

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

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

true

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

the passing of all of a family's land to the oldest son

Thomas Jefferson helped pass laws in the state of Virginia that abolished primogeniture. Define "primogeniture."

Pennsylvania

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

Issued hundreds of millions of dollars in paper money

To finance the war, Congress

Phillis Wheatley was bought as a slave, Vermont's state constitution bans slavery, the French Revolution.

Which of the following is in the correct time sequence?

assassination of pro-slavery public figures

Which of the following was not a course adopted by African-Americans to advance the cause of emancipation during the revolutionary era?

true

While Abigail Adams resented the "absolute power" husbands exercised over their wives, she did not believe in female equality in a modern sense.

true

While fighting in the American Revolution, Deborah Sampson extracted a bullet from her own leg to keep doctors from discovering her true identity.

true

While not granted to many Americans, suffrage by 1776 was often considered, in the United States, to be synonymous with freedom.

obtaining sanctuary from the British

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

that the "invisible hand" of the free market was more effective and fair than government intervention in the economy

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776) argued

false

Adam Smith's work, The Wealth of Nations, argued that the "invisible hand" of the free market did not direct economic life more effectively and fairly than governmental intervention.

false

Advertisements for runaway slaves were rare in the early republic.

in his support for the separation of church and state, he rejected the establishment of free, state-supported public schools.

All of the following are true about Thomas Jefferson and his religious beliefs except

in order to maintain free speech, swearing was permitted

All of the following are true of Pennsylvania's constitution except

John Carroll

America's first Roman Catholic bishop was

true

At the end of the war, as many as 60,000 Loyalists were banished from the United States or emigrated voluntarily rather than live in an independent United States.

true

Because of religious freedom, an astonishing number of new religious denominations proliferated in the early republic; today, more than 1,300 religions are practiced in the United States.

Anglicans

Before the Revolution, most colonies supported religious institutions with public funds and discriminated in voting and office holding against all of the following groups except _________.

true

By 1776, the year in which he wrote the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson owned more than 100 slaves.

false

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

true

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

true

During the Revolution, American Indians were divided in allegiance.

forcing open the merchant's warehouse and taking the goods

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

true

During the War of Independence, nearly every state increased importation of slaves from Africa.

true

Except for New York, all new states barred Jews from voting

false

Few men considered women naturally submissive and irrational in revolutionary-era America.

true

From 1776 to 1807, property-owning women were legally allowed to vote in New Jersey.

20%

In 1776, the slave population of the United States was

false

In eighteenth-century America, the idea of "companionate" marriage included the notion that men and women would marry voluntarily and live in a female-dominated relationship.

slave petitions urging slavery's end, presented to New England courts and legislatures.

In the early 1770s, "freedom petitions" were

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

James Otis argued that black colonists were entitled to the same civil rights as any British subject.

true

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

true

Lucy Knox, the wife of General Henry Knox, wrote to her husband during the war that when he returned home he should not consider himself, "commander in chief of your own house, but be convinced that there is such a thing as equal command."

Oneida

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

true

Many women who entered public debate felt the need to apologize for their forthrightness.

Mormons

Members of which of the following groups were not subject to arrest by the Pennsylvania government because of refusal to participate in the American Revolution?

john adams

Who developed the state constitution that gave the governor an effective veto over laws passed by the legislature, included a two-chamber legislature and powerful judiciary, and was subsequently an important model for the U.S. Constitution?

Jefferson

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