CH 5 Give Me Liberty
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.
Who was considered "the first martyr" of the American Revolution?
Crispus Attucks
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.
F- it is from Common Sense
The ruler of Great Britain during the time of the American Revolution was
George III
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.
T
Some slaves gained their freedom by serving as soldiers during the Revolution.
T
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.
T
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?
newspaper
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 won the Revolutionary War?
Americans
Which of the "founding fathers" argued that Parliament had no right to authorize the Writs of Assistance to combat smuggling?
James Otis
During the 1760s, backcountry protesters in the Carolinas were known as
Regulators
The two southern colonies that did not enroll free blacks and slaves to fight were
South Carolina and Georgia
By substituting "pursuit of happiness" for "property," Jefferson's Declaration of Independence significantly broadened the American conception of freedom.
T
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.
T
During the War for Independence, 5 percent of U.S. males aged sixteen to forty-five died.
T
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.
T
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
boycotts on the importation of British goods., mass demonstrations in the port towns., 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.
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- he did write if the American colonies freed themselves from British rule, they would be freeing themselves from the limitations placed on trade by the Navigation Acts; then able to trade with the entire world, their "material eminence" would be guaranteed., membership in the British empire was a burden not a benefit to the colonies., and far preferable to monarchy would be democracy, with citizens' rights protected by a written constitution.
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
