history 2610 chapter 5
In September 1780, the able American commander ____________ turned traitor to the American cause and almost turned West Point over to the British.
Benedict ArnoldIn
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Boston Tea Party; Olive Branch Petition; publication of Common Sense; Declaration of Independence
Following the Boston Tea Party, Parliament imposed restrictions on Massachusetts that included closing the port of Boston, curtailing town meetings, and allowing soldiers to be lodged in people's houses. These restrictions were called
Coercive or Intolerable Acts.
The "shot heard 'round the world" began the American War of Independence, and took place in what city?
Concord
The final decisive victory in the War for Independence was
Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown.
Which of the "founding fathers" argued that Parliament had no right to authorize the Writs of Assistance to combat smuggling?
James Otis
Which of the following was not a part of the balance of power between the British and American forces during the Revolution?
The British had correctly surmised the degree of support for independence among the American population.
The 1764 Sugar Act provoked the colonists by increasing the tax on molasses imported into North America.
false
The Age of Revolution began in Spanish South America.
false
The Coercive Acts were known as the Abominable Acts in the colonies.
false
The Stamp Act had mainly affected residents of colonial ports, the Sugar Act managed to offend virtually every free colonist.
false
The Tea Act raised the price of Chinese tea in the colonies.
false
The first battles of the Revolutionary War were very successful for George Washington.
false
The immediate cause of the rioting at the home of Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson was the Sugar Act.
false
The uprising along the Hudson River between the Green Mountain Boys and the governor of Georgia began with a dispute over land rights.
false
The words "we have it in our power to begin the world over again" and the description of the new nation as an "asylum for mankind" are from the Declaration of Independence.
false
By substituting "pursuit of happiness" for "property," Jefferson's Declaration of Independence significantly broadened the American conception of freedom.
true
During the Seven Years' War Great Britain treated the colonists as allies, yet only a few years later the colonists were treated as subordinates again.
true
During the War for Independence, 5 percent of U.S. males aged sixteen to forty-five died.
true
In Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence, he berated the king regarding the continued inhumanity of the slave trade.
true
Who won the Revolutionary War?
Americans
Opposition to the Stamp Act developed more slowly than in the case of the Townshend duties.
false
The idea that the United States has a special mission to serve as a symbol of freedom, a refuge from tyranny, and a model for the world is called by historians
American exceptionalism.
Who was considered "the first martyr" of the American Revolution?
Crispus Attucks
What two European powers allied with the Americans in the War for Independence?
France and Spain
The name of the Revolutionary "swamp fox" was
Francis Marion.
The ruler of Great Britain during the time of the American Revolution was
George III
Who was appointed the military commander of the army during the Second Continental Congress?
George Washington
Which of the colonies did not participate in the First Continental Congress?
Georgia
What did the Sugar Act of 1764 do that so vexed the colonists due to the already existing tax on molasses imported from the French West Indies?
It decreased it
Who engraved the image of the Boston Massacre that became one of the most influential pieces of political propaganda of the revolutionary era?
Paul Revere
The First Continental Congress met in__________.
Philadelphia
During the 1760s, backcountry protesters in the Carolinas were known as
Regulators
Who was not a member of the American delegation that negotiated the Treaty of Paris?
Samuel Adams
On October 17, 1777, the Americans scored an important victory against British forces at
Saratoga
The two southern colonies that did not enroll free blacks and slaves to fight were
South Carolina and Georgia
Which of the following was not a feature of the Stamp Act crisis of 1765?
The Stamp Act was passed by the Stamp Act Congress as a way to subvert the power of Parliament to tax the colonies.
Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys gained control of the region later known as
Vermont
The Carolina "Regulators" of the mid-1760s were
a group of wealthy residents of the backcountry who protested the lack of courts and lack of representation in the colonial governance
Examples of the symbol "liberty" appeared in all of the following except
a thin soup made only from colonial products called Liberty Consommé.
The tactics of American resistance to British colonial policy from the mid-1760s through the mid-1770s included
all of these: a) boycotts on the importation of British goods. b) mass demonstrations in the port towns. c) speeches and pamphlets challenging Britain's right to tax its colonial subjects
Adding to Congress's formal declaration, the Declaration of Independence
declared the United States independent of British rule.
A major blow in the relationship between the British and colonists occurred when Lord Dunmore proclaimed
escaped slaves who took up arms for the king would be freed.
"Give me liberty, or give me death!" was uttered by Samuel Adams at the first Continental Congress.
false
According to the doctrine of "virtual representation," the House of Commons represented very few residents of the British empire, despite their voting statuses.
false
As tensions between Britain and the colonies mounted, social conflict within the colonies faded.
false
Before leaving Boston, the British, under the command of Lord Charles Cornwallis, cut down the original Liberty Tree.
false
One of the unique aspects of Thomas Paine's writing was his addressing the upper elite, as they were the men who had voting power.
false
Thomas Paine's January 1776 pamphlet Common Sense argued all of the following except
it was common sense that in the struggle for independence, the slaves to whom Lord Dunmore offered freedom ought to be freed.
Which word emerged as the foremost rallying cry for popular discontent in the New World in the mid-1700s?
liberty
Which of the following did the Stamp Act affect?
newspapers
As Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense, became one of the most successful and influential in the history of political writing to that date, Paine wanted a share of the profits to be used for
supplies for the Continental army
Sons of Liberty (1765) were said to oppose "every limitation of trade and duty on it." In this context, define "duty."
tax
What did the 1766 Declaratory Act declare?
that Parliament had the power to pass laws for the colonies "in all cases whatever"
British success in the Seven Years' War contributed to the making of the American Revolution because
the British raised taxes to pay for the debt it incurred during the war
Which of the following was not a British law forbidding colonial manufacture?
the Molasses Act of 1733
Which of the following was not a feature of the 1774 Intolerable Acts?
the repression of Catholicism in the colonies
An early skirmish between the colonists and British soldiers was over the seizure of arms stockpiled in Concord.
true
At Trenton, Washington staged a surprise attack on Hessian soldiers in the service of the British.
true
At the beginning of the war, George Washington refused to accept black recruits.
true
By late 1774, colonial Committees of Safety had begun transferring effective power from established colonial governments (under British control) to grassroots bodies.
true
The Daughters of Liberty were
women who spun and wove cloth during the Townshend Duties boycott.
In his work, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Thomas Jefferson demanded that the British empire be seen as a collection of equal parts held together by loyalty to a constitutional monarch, not a system in which one part ruled over the others.
true
In response to the colonists forming of a Continental army, Britain declared the colonies in a state of rebellion and ordered the closing of all colonial ports.
true
In the late 1700s, there was a rumor that the Anglican Church in England planned to send bishops to America, causing colonists to fear that new religious courts might be established.
true
Some slaves gained their freedom by serving as soldiers during the Revolution.
true
The American Declaration of Independence has been an inspirational political document for peoples around the world.
true
The brutal treatment of civilians by British forces under Col. Banastre Tarleton persuaded many Americans to join the patriot cause.
true
The colonial political leader Joseph Galloway predicted that if the colonies were to achieve independence, a war between the northern and southern colonies might later occur.
true
The reason John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence in such large script was because he wanted to make sure King George III could read his signature without the assistance of his glasses.
true
When, on April 19, 1775, British soldiers marched from Boston to the nearby town of Concord to seize a cache of weapons; some forty-nine Americans and seventy-three British soldiers died in skirmishes.
true
When colonists insisted that because they were not represented in Parliament they could not be taxed by the British government, the British replied that they were represented by
virtual representation
Both colonists and some in Britain decried the treatment of John Wilkes because he
was expelled from Parliament due to his scandalous remarks about the king
Committees of Correspondence in the colonies during the 1760s
were a group of colonial elites who exchanged ideas and information about resistance to the Sugar, Currency, and Stamp Acts.