CH 6 Give Me Liberty

Which of the following defines republican motherhood?

training sons to be future citizens

What famous American woman wrote to her husband that the Second Continental Congress should "remember the ladies" when they drew up a "Code of Laws"?

Abigail Adams

Before the Revolution, most colonies supported religious institutions with public funds and discriminated in voting and officeholding against all of the following groups except _________.

Anglicans

The daughter of a Massachusetts farmer who disguised herself as a man and fought in the Continental army during the American Revolution was

Deborah Sampson

Advertisements for runaway slaves were rare in the early republic.

F

During the War of Independence, nearly every state increased importation of slaves from Africa.

F

Few men considered women naturally submissive and irrational in revolutionary-era America.

F

Except in Vermont, property ownership was not a requirement for voting in the early republic.

F- was a requirement everywhere but Vermont

Members of which of the following groups were not subject to arrest by the Pennsylvania government because of refusal to participate in the American Revolution?

Mormons

Many Indian tribes were divided during the War of Independence. Some sided with the British while others, such as the _____ sided with the Americans.

Onieda

The foremost center of political radicalism during the revolutionary era was

Pennsylvania

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.

T

From 1776 to 1807, property-owning women were legally allowed to vote in New Jersey.

T

Indentured servitude went into rapid decline following national independence.

T

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

T

The American Revolution inspired the French Revolution (1789-1799)

T

The Declaration of Independence elevated the principle of equality to a central place in the American conception of freedom.

T

Which of the following was not a course adopted by African-Americans to advance the cause of emancipation during the revolutionary era?

assassination of proslavery public figures- they did sign petitions advocating freedom, enlistment as soldiers on each side during the Revolutionary War, and filed lawsuits challenging the legality of slavery.

During the Revolutionary War, a Massachusetts group of women accused a merchant of hoarding coffee. The group took matters into their own hands by

forcing open the merchant's warehouse and taking the goods.

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.

All of the following are true about Thomas Jefferson and his religious beliefs except

in his support for the separation of church and state, he rejected the establishment of free, state-supported public schools- he believed that religion was necessary as a foundation of public morality. he wrote a version of the Bible and a life of Jesus that insisted that while Jesus had lived a deeply moral life, he was not divine and performed no miracles. he viewed established churches as a major example of despotism and believed that religious liberty served God's will.

The first time in recorded human history that slavery was eradicated by legislative power of government was

in the United States when, between 1777 and 1804; every state north of Maryland took steps toward emancipation.

While some 5,000 slaves fought for American independence, far more gained liberty by

obtaining sanctuary from the British

To finance the war, Congress

printed war bonds and used celebrities to encourage people to buy them. ??? says inflation in the book

In the early 1770s, "freedom petitions" were

slave petitions urging slavery's end, presented to New England courts and legislatures.