chapter 6 GML

For most free Americans in the new republic, equality meant

equal opportunity rather than equality of condition

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

By 1776, the year in which he wrote The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson owned more than 100 slaves

true

Deists and members of evangelical sects worked together to separate church and state.

true

During the Revolution, American Indians were divided in allegiance

true

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

Except for New York, all new states barred Jews from voting

true

Which of the following defines "republican motherhood

training sons to be future citizens

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

true

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

true

At the end of the war, as many as 60,000 Loyalists were banished from the United States or emigrated voluntarily rather than live in an independent United States.

true

In 1776, the slave population of the United States was

20 percent

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

20-25 percent

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

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

Who developed the state constitution that gave the governor an effective veto over laws passed by the legislature, included a two-chamber legislature and powerful judiciary, and was subsequently an important model for the U.S. Constitution

James Madison

America's first Roman Catholic bishop was

John Carroll of Maryland

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

Oneida

The foremost center of political radicalism during the Revolutionary Era was

Pennsylvania

Three months after independence was declared in 1776, which state adopted a new state constitution with only a one-house legislature

Pennsylvania

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

Quakers

The first antislavery tract printed in America was

The Selling of Joseph

Who wrote that he hoped to erect a "wall of separation" between church and state

Thomas jefferson

Phillis Wheatley is celebrated in American history as

a published poet and slave

Before the Revolution, most colonies supported religious institutions with public funds and discriminated in voting and office-holding against all of the following groups except

anglicans

Confiscated property of Loyalists was returned to them following the Treaty of Paris

false

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

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

in the United States when, in 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

Thomas Jefferson helped pass laws in the state of Virginia that abolished primogeniture. Define "primogeniture.

passing of all of a family's land to the oldest son

In the early 1770s, "freedom petitions" were

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

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776) argued

that the "invisible hand" of the free market was more effective and fair than government intervention in the economy

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

true

Indentured servitude went into rapid decline following national independence.

true

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

true

Loyalists who did not leave the country were quickly reintegrated into American society

true

On the eve of independence, Baptists who refused to pay taxes to support local Congregational ministers were still being jailed in Massachusetts

true

The American Revolution inspired the French Revolution.

true

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

true

The Revolutionary War strengthened the deep tradition of American anti-Catholicism

true

The years following independence saw the emergence of free black communities

true

While not granted to many Americans, suffrage by 1776 was often considered, in the United States, to be synonymous with freedom

true