HIST Module 5

The Stamp Act taxed would not have taxed:

Bar room doodles

The Coercive or Intolerable Acts specifically targeted ____ to help end the rebellion.

Boston

Combinations of the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment led Americans to ______.

Challenge authority

Constant war and ____ contributed to the failure in defining the colonists' relationship to the empire.

Competing visions of empires

British ___ helped lead to the colonial policies that caused the Revolution.

Debt

By 1775, everyone in North America knew that independence was certainly going to happen.

False

Political participation ___ as more people gained the right to vote.

Grew

Why couldn't George Washington turn down the offer of becoming the commanding officer of the Continental Army?

It would have reflected dishonorable character and caused his friend pain

_____ had, perhaps, the largest influence on the thinking of colonists.

John Locke

Over time, colonists developed their own ________.

Local political institutions

Republican societies required virtuous citizens, and it became ____ responsibility to raise and educate future citizens.

Mothers'

_____ was the agreement among large groups of American colonist not to import consumer goods from Britain to push for the repeal of the Stamp Act.

Nonimportation

Mob violence would best describe which type of resistance?

Popular resistance

Victory at _____ encouraged the French to support the American cause.

Saratoga

Washington's logic of war sought ______ engagements to win the war.

Smaller, more frequent

The Sugar Act primarily want to increase revenues by lowering tariffs to prevent colonists from using _____ to circumvent the duty.

Smugglers

Women, in many cases, were forced to ______ during the war.

Take on roles generally assigned to men

Tensions calmed for a time following:

The Boston Massacre

______ helped united colonists against British policies.

The Continental Association

True or False: Women had a concept of honor that was equally as rigid as any found in the masculine world.

True

The Revolution affected Native Americans by opening up _____ and creating governments hostile to their territorial claims.

Western settlement

Who was/were responsible for contributing to the Revolutionary cause through honorable behavior?

civilians and soldiers

America's founders wanted a war fought based on ______________, which would demonstrate the true worth of their cause to the whole world.

lofty principles

Through which activities and/or behaviors could people claim their share of honor and virtue?

proper conduct, duty to the nation, ethical behavior