Chapter 6

(Q002) The estimated percentage of free Americans who remained loyal to the British during the Revolution was

20 to 25 percent.

(Q012) Thomas Jefferson wrote that he hoped to erect a "wall of separation" between

church and state.

(Q008) During the Revolutionary War, a Massachusetts group of women accused a merchant of hoarding coffee, later taking matters into their own hands by

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

(Q024) The first time in recorded human history that slavery was eradicated by legislative power of government was

in the United States during and after the American Revolution.

(Q033) What area did England continue to control in the Americas after the American Revolution?

Canada

(Q013) Before the Revolution, most colonies supported religious institutions with public funds and discriminated in voting and officeholding against which of the following groups?

Catholics

(Q038) The authority of church leaders went remarkably unchallenged during the revolutionary era.

False

(Q040) Committed to freedom of conscience and thought, most patriots adopted a live-and-let-live attitude toward the Loyalists during the Revolutionary War.

False

(Q004) While some 5,000 slaves fought for American independence, far more gained liberty by

obtaining sanctuary from the British.

(Q010) Three months after independence was declared in 1776, Pennsylvania adopted a new state constitution with only a

one-house legislature.

(Q015) Thomas Jefferson helped pass laws in the state of Virginia that abolished "primogeniture," which is defined as

passing the entirety of a family's land to the oldest son.

(Q021) In the early 1770s, "freedom petitions" were

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

(Q027) Which of the following defines republican motherhood?

training sons to be future citizens

(Q032) What was Thomas Jefferson's solution to tension between Indians and whites after the American Revolution?

the removal of Indians to territory beyond the Mississippi River

(Q026) To finance the war, Congress

issued hundreds of millions of dollars in paper money.

(Q018) What did Joseph Brant want to create?

an Indian confederation between the United States and Canada

(Q054) Few men considered women naturally submissive and irrational in revolutionary-era America.

False

(Q007) Which of the following was a course adopted by African-Americans to advance the cause of emancipation during the revolutionary era?

lawsuits challenging the legality of slavery

(Q029) Members of which of the following groups were subject to arrest by the Pennsylvania government because of refusal to participate in the American Revolution?

Mennonites

(Q001) The foremost center of political radicalism during the revolutionary era was

Pennsylvania

(Q006) Which of the following is in the correct time sequence?

Phillis Wheatley was bought as a slave in Boston, Vermont's state constitution banned slavery, the French Revolution broke out in Europe.

(Q025) Why is Deborah Sampson significant?

She was the daughter of a Massachusetts farmer who disguised herself as a man to fight in the American Revolution.

(Q035) After the American Revolution, the state of Massachusetts established what kind of a relationship with Indian tribes?

The state established a system of guardianship over tribes.

(Q039) Indentured servitude went into rapid decline following national independence.

True

(Q042) The years following independence saw the emergence of free black communities.

True

(Q050) Initially, African-Americans saw the ideals of the Revolution as an opportunity to claim their freedom.

True

(Q052) By 1776, the year in which he wrote the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson owned more than 100 slaves.

True

(Q053) While Abigail Adams resented the "absolute power" husbands exercised over their wives, she did not believe in female equality in a modern sense.

True

(Q057) Deists and members of evangelical sects worked together to separate church and state.

True

(Q058) 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

(Q059) During the Revolution, American Indians were divided in allegiance.

True

(Q062) While fighting in the American Revolution, Deborah Sampson extracted a bullet from her own leg to keep doctors from discovering her true identity.

True

(Q063) James Otis argued that black colonists were entitled to the same civil rights as any British subject.

True

(Q064) Many women who entered public debate felt the need to apologize for their forthrightness.

True

(Q067) The American Revolution inspired the French Revolution.

True

(Q019) Which of the following is true regarding Pennsylvania's constitution?

The legislature enacted laws to prevent vice and immorality.

(Q034) By the early nineteenth century, dictionaries of Indian languages began to include the word

"freedom."

(Q009) Abigail Adams wrote in a famous letter to her husband to

"remember the ladies."

(Q020) In 1776, the slave population of the United States was

20 percent

(Q055) From 1776 to 1807, property-owning women were legally allowed to vote in New Jersey.

True

(Q028) The first antislavery tract printed in America was

The Selling of Joseph.

(Q043) The Revolutionary War strengthened the deep tradition of American anti-Catholicism.

False

(Q041) 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

(Q044) Except in Vermont, property ownership was not a requirement for voting in the early republic.

False

(Q049) Confiscated property of Loyalists was returned to them following the Treaty of Paris.

False

(Q056) 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

(Q066) During the War of Independence, nearly every state increased importation of slaves from Africa.

False

(Q030) Which of the following are true about Thomas Jefferson and his religious beliefs?

He viewed established churches as a major example of despotism and believed that religious liberty served God's will.

(Q005) The Book of Negroes was

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

(Q022) Phillis Wheatley is celebrated in American history as

a published poet and slave of African origins.

(Q023) What was one outcome of France's military assistance to the United States during the American Revolutionary War?

inclusion of Catholics in the nation after the war

(Q016) 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.