DCUSH - Chapter 5 Study Guide, DCUSH- CHAPTER 5 STUDY GUIDE PART 2

Americans were represented in the House of Commons, and therefore felt they were being taxed without their consent. What rallying cry did this lead to?

"No taxation without representation"

During the eight years of war, approximately how many Americans bore arms in the Continental army and state militias?

200,000

Today, more than _________ of the countries have issued declarations of independence.

50 percent

What did the Continental Association call for?

A near total end to trade with Great Britain and the West Indies.

What were the Suffolk Resolves?

A set of resolutions made in 1774, urging Massachusetts citizens to prepare for war

Which one of the following statements accurately describes the results or duration of the nonimportation movement?

American merchants largely abandoned it when Parliament repealed the Townshend Acts at the urging of the British merchants.

What was the result of the Americans' placement of a cannon above Boston following the Battle of Bunker Hill?

British troops abandoned Boston to the colonists

The underlying tension that escalated into the Boston Massacre was between.....

British troops stationed in Boston and the city's laborers competing for jobs.

What idea did both the Regulators and Stamp Act Congress share?

Colonists wanted to be represented in the government.

With the Sugar Act, Britain.....

Cracked down on smuggling by prosecuting accused smugglers without the benefit of a jury trial.

The Boston Massacre occurred when British soldiers......

Fired into a mob and killed a number of Boston residents.

Which was the following statements accurately describes American allies during the War for Independence?

France and Spain fought with the Americans largely because of well-established rivalries with Britain.

A key consequence of the Battle of Saratoga in October 1777 was:

France becoming an ally of the united states

Which statement is accurate about France's involvement in the Revolutionary Wat?

France's assistance to the American colonists played decisive role in the colonists' victory.

Crispus Attucks.....

Has been called the first martyr of the American Revolution.

What statement is true about Thomas Paine's background before he wrote "Common Sense?"

He emigrated from England in 1774

In writing the Declaration of Independence, which of Locke's natural rights did Jefferson replace, and with what?

He replaced " property" with "the pursuit of happiness"

What role did Samuel Seabury play during the Revolutionary period?

He was a colonial minister who remained loyal to the British

Which of the following statements accurately describes the Declaration of Independence?

It claimed a natural right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

What was one of the ways in which Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre was significant?

It distorted what had happened and stirred indignation in the colonies by depicting British soldiers firing into and unarmed crowd.

What was one important legacy of the Declaration of Independence?

It inspired future revolutions against despotic governments

What is the significance of the Battles of Lexington and Concord?

It is considered the battle that started the Revolutionary War

At the first continental congress, who declared "I am not a Virginian, but and American"?

Patrick Henry

Which group was initially reluctant to boycott British goods following the passage if the Townshend Acts?

Philadelphia and NYC merchants.

Who were the delegates at the First Continental Congress?

Prominent political leaders, all men, from all colonies except for Georgia.

What was the aim of the Townshend Acts?

Raising revenue by taxing imported goods

The Declaratory Act.....

Rejected Americans' claims that only their elected representatives could levy taxes

What is true of the period the historians call "The Age of Revolution"?

Revolutions began in British North America and spread to Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America

Which of the following descriptions accurately characterizes resistance to the Stamp Act?

Rowdy and widespread.

Which of the following was a component of the Intolerable Acts?

The Massachusetts governor was authorized to appoint council members instead of holding elections to fill positions.

After what major event did the British government make the colonies bear part of the cost of the empire?

The Seven Years' War

What was one of the outcomes of the Stamp Act?

The Stamp Act Congress insisted that the right to consent to taxation was essential to people's freedom.

Which of the following occurred after the Treaty of Paris of 1783?

The United States became the Western Hemisphere's first independent nation, with its boundaries reflecting the circumstances of its birth

The idea of "American exceptionalism" that developed in the Revolutionary era refers to what belief?

The United States has a special mission to serve as a refuge from tyranny and a model of universal freedom for the rest of the world.

What was an important political origin of the American Revolution?

The colonists criticized their lack of representation in the parliament.

The Regulators were concerned primarily with.....

The secure possession of their land

What was an aim of the Stamp Act of Congress of 1765?

To assert that colonies should not be taxed without consent.

What was the main purpose of the Committees of Safety?

To police local population and punish those not following the boycott of British goods.

Britain intervened in the colonies in new ways in the 1760s.....

To raise funds to pay for the debts incurred by the Seven Years' War

Which of the following was an important factor in the colonies' victory in the American Revolution?

Washington's ability to keep an army together in the face of defeat and difficulties with supplies

The Daughters of Liberty was the name given to.....

Women who spun and wove to create their own clothing rather than buy British goods.

Next to national independence, what was the second most significant concession the United States gained in the Treaty of Paris in 1783?

a large piece of territory with the Mississippi River as its western border.

Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"

argued that America would become the home of freedom and "an asylum for mankind."

What prompted the British to declare that the colonies were in a state of rebellion?

creation of a standing army by the Second Continental Congress

In fighting the Revolutionary War, the Americans on their own could not match what British advantage?

deployment of a navy

Which of the following made many colonial leaders hesitant to support the idea of independence?

fear that a complete break with the mother country might unleash further conflict

During the Revolutionary War, tensions between backcountry farmers and wealthy planters

gave the British hope that they might be able to enlist the support of southern Loyalists.

Cornwallis was defeated at Yorktown because:

he had no land or water escape route

What proportion of the colonies' free white male population aged 16-45 died in the Revolutionary War?

one in twenty

The author of "An Alarm to the Legislature of the Province of New- York" equated freedom with

sedition

Who was most directly harmed by the Boston Tea Party?

the East India Company

In the same year the Declaration of Independence was signed

the Lakota Sioux settled in the Black Hills

At the insistence of Georgia and South Carolina, what clause from Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence was deleted before Congress approved the document?

the clause condemning the inhumanity of the slave trade

in 1778, the focus of the war shifted

to the South, where the British captured Savannah that year.

What became of the Stamp Act?

A year after it was passed, parliament repealed it and passed the Declaratory Act

What primarily motivated the British to place a tax on tea by passing the Tea Act?

Aiding the financially ailing East India Company, a giant trading monopoly

Which of the following did the Treaty of Paris stipulate?

Americans had the right to fish in waters off Canada

How did the British government predominantly view the American colonies prior to the Revolution?

As unequal parts in a larger political and economic system, strictly subject to the rulings of the parliament.

In the Declaration of Independence, what justification did Thomas Jefferson provide as the basis for breaking with Britain?

Because government derived from the " consent of the governed", the governed had the right to remove that consent

In what ways was Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" similar to Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence

Both showed how a king can be a tyrant

Which of the following battles was among the very first of the American War of Independence?

Bunker Hill

Why did colonists object to the Tea Act?

By paying it, they would be acknowledging Great Britain's right to tax the colonists.

The British Parliament's 1774 Quebec Act......

Granted legal toleration to Roman Catholic Church in Canada, which heightened opposition to British rule among many Protestant colonists.

In the years immediately before the American Revolution, the concept of natrual rights.....

Greatly influenced Thomas Jefferson's early writings.

Which of the following approaches did Thomas Paine take when writing "Common Sense"

He presented the case for American Independence as backed by simple facts while also passionately describing it as a chance to fight oppression

What did Lord Dunmore do that horrified many southerners?

He promised freedom to slaves who joined the British cause

Violent social turmoil in rural areas during the 1760s.....

Involved events in both Northern and Southern colonies.

Which of the following statements best explains colonial resistance to the Sugar Act?

It tightened regulations against smuggling, increasing costs paid by Americans for trade goods.

The Stamp Act created such a stir in the colonies because......

It was the first direct tax Parliament imposed on the colonies

Which of the following figures is considered to have been a key influence on the arguments presented in the Declaration of Independence?

John Locke

What was the primary reason that motivated slaves to join the Continental Army?

Many were promised their freedom after the war was over

Which action by British Parliament was labeled and Intolerable Act by the Americans?

Parliament empowered military commanders to lodge soldiers in private homes.

Virtual representation was the idea.....

That each member of Britain's House of Commons represented the entire empire, not just his own district.

Why did George Washington eventually allow African Americans to serve in the Continental Army?

The British started offering freedom to slaves who signed up for their army.

What role did the Committees of Correspondence play in the years preceding the revolution?

They helped colonial leaders to share ideas on resisting taxation.

Who wrote the following: "One of the strongest natural proofs of folly of hereditary right in kings is that nature disapproves it, otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule, by giving mankind an ass for a lion"?

Thomas Paine

The Sons of Liberty.....

Took the lead in enforcing the boycott of British imports in NYC.

In the winter of 1776-1777, Washington won important victories that improved American morale. These battles were at....

Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey

Which of the following statements describes the allegiance of Native American tribes during the War for Independence?

Tribes individually decided which side to support based on which they believed more likely to support their own ideas of freedom.

Wrists of assistance alarmed colonists because they.....

Were general search warrants that allowed customs officials to search anywhere they chose for smuggled goods.

How did the Stamp Act differ from the Sugar Act?

Whereas the Stamp Act affected, and therefore offended, a large portion of the colonial population, the Sugar Act mainly affected residents of colonial ports.

What made Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" a unique document?

it expanded the size of the public sphere, going beyond the elite.

What was the significance of the Battle of Yorktown?

it resulted in British surrender and evaporated British public support for the war.

British possessions in the West Indies:

remained loyal to the crown during the American Revolution because their leaders feared slave uprisings.

Which armed group was defeated by the colony's militia at the 1771 Battle of Almanance?

the Regulators

The main point of the American Crisis is

to inspire American soldiers to continue to fight despite demoralizing military losses.