History Chapter 6
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
Many women who entered public debate felt the need to apologize for their forthrightness.
True
The American Revolution inspired the French Revolution.
True
The Book of Negroes was
a list of African-Americans evacuated from New York City at the end of the Revolutionary War.
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
All of the following are true of Pennsylvania's constitution except
in order to maintain free speech, swearing was permitted.
While some 5,000 slaves fought for American independence, far more gained liberty by
obtaining sanctuary from the British.
Thomas Jefferson helped pass laws in the state of Virginia that abolished primogeniture. Define "primogeniture."
passing of all of a family's land to the oldest son
To finance the war, Congress
printed war bonds and used celebrities to encourage people to buy them.
Phillis Wheatley is celebrated in American history as
published poet and slave
In the early 1770s, "freedom petitions" were
slave petitions urging slavery's end, presented to New England courts and legislatures.
The first antislavery tract printed in America was
the selling of Joseph
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
Confiscated property of Loyalists was returned to them following the Treaty of Paris.
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.
False
The Revolutionary War strengthened the deep tradition of American anti-Catholicism.
False
The authority of church leaders went remarkably unchallenged during the revolutionary era.
False
Who wrote that he hoped to erect a "wall of separation" between church and state?
Thomas Jefferson
Abigail Adams resented the "absolute power" husbands exercised over their wives, she did not believe in female equality in a modern sense.
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.
True
By 1776, the year in which he wrote the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson owned more than 100 slaves.
True
Evangelical Christians supported the separation of church and state following the American Revolution because they wanted to protect religion from the corrupting embrace of government.
True
Except for New York, all new states barred Jews from voting.
True
The estimated percentage of free Americans who remained loyal to the British during the Revolution was
20 to 25 percent.
In 1776, the slave population of the United States was
20%
What percentage of non-slave Americans remained loyal to the British during the American Revolution?
20-25%
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"?
Abigail Adams
Before the Revolution, most colonies supported religious institutions with public funds and discriminated in voting and officeholding against all of the following groups except _________.
Anglicans
The daughter of a Massachusetts farmer who disguised herself as a man and fought in the Continental army during the American Revolution was
Deborah Sampson.
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?
John Adams
America's first Roman Catholic bishop was
John Carroll of Maryland
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?
Mormons
Which of the following is in the correct time sequence?
Phillis Wheatley was bought as a slave, Vermont's state constitution bans slavery, the French Revolution.
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776) argued
that the "invisible hand" of the free market was more effective and fairer than government intervention in the economy.
Except in Vermont, property ownership was not a requirement for voting in the early republic.
False
Few men considered women naturally submissive and irrational in revolutionary-era America.
False
The Declaration of Independence elevated the principle of equality to a central place in the American conception of freedom.
True
Advertisements for runaway slaves were rare in the early republic.
False
Committed to freedom of conscience and thought, most patriots adopted a live-and-let-live attitude toward the Loyalists during the Revolutionary War.
False
During the War of Independence, nearly every state increased importation of slaves from Africa.
False
The years following independence saw the emergence of free black communities.
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.
True
On the eve of independence, Baptists who refused to pay taxes to support local Congregational ministers were still being jailed in Massachusetts.
True
Deists and members of evangelical sects worked together to separate church and state.
True
During the Revolution, American Indians were divided in allegiance.
True
From 1776 to 1807, property-owning women were legally allowed to vote in New Jersey.
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."
True
For most free Americans in the new republic, equality meant
equal opportunity rather than equal condition
"How did the expansion of religious liberty after the Revolution reflect the new American ideal of freedom?"
in eastern North America shifted away from the Indians and toward white Americans.
All of the following are true about Thomas Jefferson and his religious beliefs except
in his support for the separation of church and state, he rejected the establishment of free, state-supported public schools.
Which of the following defines republican motherhood?
training sons to be future citizens
Which of the following was not a course adopted by African-Americans to advance the cause of emancipation during the revolutionary era?
assassination of proslavery public figures
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.
Militias did much to promote the expansion of political democracy in revolutionary America.
True