Chapter 5

Thomas Paines January 1776 pamphlet common sense argued all of the following except:

It was common sense that in the struggle for independence the slaves Lord Dunmore offered freedom ought to be freed

To southern colonies that did not enroll free blacks and slaves to fight were

South Carolina and Georgia

What did the 1766 Declaratory Act declare?

That Parliament had the power to pass laws for the colonies in all cases what ever

British success and the seven years war contributed to the making of the American Revolution because:

The British raised taxes to pay for the debt incurred during the war

Which of the following was not a feature of the 1774 intolerable acts?

The repression of Catholicisms in the colonies

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.

True

Some slaves gain their freedom by serving soldiers during the revolution

True

When colonists insisted that because they were not represented in parliament they could not be taxed by the British government, the British replied that they were represented by:

Virtual representation

Committees of correspondence in the colonies during the 1760s:

Where a group of colonial elites who exchanged ideas and information about resistance to the sugar, currency, and stamp act

What did Jefferson in his Declaration of Independence blame England for doing with Indians?

enlisting them to fight with the British against the Americans

Ignoring the Proclamation of 1763 enabled colonists to do what action in the borderlands?

expand westward

What happened to the Iroquois Confederacy during the American Revolutionary War?

its members fought for both England and America

The declaration of independence

Declare the United States independent of British rule

The Carolina regulators of the mid 1760s were:

A group of wealthy residents of the backcountry who protested the lack of courts and lack of representation in the colonial governance

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

In Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence, he berated the king regarding the continued inhumanity of the slave trade.

true

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.

true

In his work, A summary view of the rights of british america, Thomas Jefferson demanded that the british empire be viewed as a collection of equal parts held together by loyalty to a constitutional monarch, and not a system in which one part ruled over the others

true

The brutal treatment of civilians by British forces under Col. Banastre Tarleton persuaded many Americans to join the patriot cause.

true