Chapter 6 Quiz U.S. History

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(Q003) The Treaty of Paris marked a change in which the balance of power

in eastern North America shifted away from the Indians and toward white Americans.

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

Canada

(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

(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.

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

True

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

True

(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

(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.

(Q018) What did Joseph Brant want to create?

an Indian confederation between the United States and Canada

(Q014) For most free Americans in the new republic, equality meant

equal opportunity rather than equality of condition.

(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%

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

20-25%

(Q017) What percentage of non-slave Americans remained loyal to the British during the American Revolution?

20-25%

(Q045) Evangelical Christians supported the separation of church and state following the American Revolution because they wanted to protect religion from the corrupting embrace of government.

True

(Q046) Except for New York, all new states barred Jews from voting.

True

(Q047) Because of religious freedom, an astonishing number of new religious denominations proliferated in the early republic; today, more than 1,300 religions are practiced in the United States.

True

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

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

(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

(Q061) Lucy Knox, the wife of General Henry Knox, wrote to her husband during the war that when he returned home he should not consider himself, "commander in chief of your own house, but be convinced that there is such a thing as equal command."

True

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

True

(Q065) Loyalists who did not leave the country were quickly reintegrated into American society.

True

(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


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