Chapter 2 American History

The first country to recognize the United States as an independent nation was __________.

France

In 1816, African American church leaders formed the first independent African American denomination, the __________.

African Methodist Episcopal Church

Revenue Act of 1767

Banned the use of paper money in the colonies

The colonists protested the Stamp Act by refusing to __________.

Buy British goods

Boston Massacre

Event that occurred outside a customs house in Massachusetts

T/F Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense to try to establish better relations with King George III.

False: He wrote it to attack King George III.

T/F After the revolution, men no longer needed to own a certain amount of property to hold elective office.

False: In most states people still had to own a certain amount of property to hold elective office.

T/F After the Revolutionary War, new state constitutions gave increased voting rights to women and African Americans.

False: Increased voting rights to men (any white men who payed taxes)

T/F George Hewes and his companions dumped stamps into Boston Harbor.

False: They dumped tea into the Boston Harbor.

T/F The Coercive Acts were intended to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.

False: They were intended to put an end to colonial challenges to British Authority.

T/F John Adams argued that government needed "checks and balances" to prevent minority groups from taking away the rights of the majority.

False: To prevent any group in society from becoming strong enough to take away the rights of the minority.

The local New England militias used a style of fighting known as __________.

Guerrilla warfare

Compared to the British troops, the Continental Army was __________.

Inexperienced

Currency Act of 1764

Legalized the use of writs of assistance

To disrupt the British trade, the Continental Congress issued letters of __________, or licenses, authorizing private ship owners to attack British merchant ships.

Marquee

The town of Concord created a special unit of men called __________, who were trained and ready to fight at a minute's notice.

Minute men

The British captured __________ and used it as their headquarters for the rest of the Revolutionary War.

New York

After the French and Indian War, the British asked the colonies to __________.

Pay their share of war's costs

General Howe sought to separate New England from the South by capturing __________.

Philadelphia

Proclamation of 1763

Prohibited colonists from settling west of an imaginary line running north to south along the Appalachian Mountains

"No taxation without _________."

Representation

Quartering Act

Required local officials to provide lodging for British soldiers in private homes

The American Victory at __________ was the turning point of the Revolution.

Saratoga

The British needed to win the war quickly before __________.

The Americans allied with France

What became known in the colonies as the Intolerable Acts?

The Quebec Act and the Coercive Acts

King George III declared the colonies "open and avowed" enemies after __________.

The battles of Lexington and Concord

After the Boston Massacre, the British repealed the __________.

Townshed Acts

T/F Delegates to the First Continental Congress mostly agreed that it was time for the colonies to fight for their rights.

True

T/F The main idea behind the Declaration of Rights and Grievances was that taxation depended upon representation.

True

T/F The stories of the Revolution and its heroes helped Americans to think of themselves as all belonging to the same group.

True

T/F The concept of the ideal republican society conflicted with traditional beliefs about slavery.

True: Also restricted rights of many people on the basis of their race, class, gender.

Attaching a list of rights to the new states' constitutions began in 1776 when George Mason drafted __________.

Virginia's Declaration of Rights