hy120 chapter 5
(Q025) Adding to Congress's formal declaration, the Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Paine as a prequel to Common Sense. declared the United States independent of British rule. was later recognized as the Constitution of the United States. was the nation's first written Constitution.
declared the United States independent of British rule.
(Q024) Thomas Paine's January 1776 pamphlet Common Sense argued that it was common sense that in the struggle for independence, the slaves to whom Lord Dunmore offered freedom ought to be freed. membership in the British empire benefited the colonies. democracy and a written constitution were more preferable to monarchy. free trade with all nations should be curtailed.
democracy and a written constitution were more preferable to monarchy.
(Q061) Some slaves gained their freedom by serving as soldiers during the Revolution. true false
true
(Q063) 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 false
true
(Q070) 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 false
true
(Q076) In Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence, he berated the king regarding the continued inhumanity of the slave trade. true false
true
(Q015) 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. were groups of women, well known for their letter-writing skills, who sought to promote Mary Wollstonecraft's ideas. sought to unite various amateur science clubs, most notably Franklin's Junto, together with other such colonial organizations. wrote King George repeatedly about the importance of rescinding letters of marque, which licensed individuals to seize property.
were a group of colonial elites who exchanged ideas and information about resistance to the Sugar, Currency, and Stamp Acts.
(Q030) The final decisive victory in the War for Independence was Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown. Tarleton's victory at Cowpens. Howe's defeat at Boston. Washington's victory at Philadelphia.
Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown.
(Q032) Who was considered "the first martyr" of the American Revolution? Samuel Adams James Otis George Washington Crispus Attucks
Crispus Attucks
(Q047) What happened to the Iroquois Confederacy during the American Revolutionary War? Its members assimilated completely to European values. Its members became slaves to American masters. Its members fought for both England and America. Its members migrated to England for safety.
Its members fought for both England and America.
(Q041) What did Jefferson in his Declaration of Independence blame England for doing with Indians? encouraging them to join American patriot forces in the Borderlands enlisting them to fight with the British against the Americans killing them enticing them to ally with the French government
enlisting them to fight with the British against the Americans
(Q038) South Carolina and Georgia were the two southern colonies that failed to take what action to help win the war? enroll free blacks and slaves to fight maintain slave plantations send white soldiers to battle utilize the assistance of women to make war goods
enroll free blacks and slaves to fight
(Q021) A major blow in the relationship between the British and colonists occurred when Lord Dunmore proclaimed no further supplies of tea would reach the colonies unless a formal apology was drafted. the idea of liberty was ludicrous and without merit. escaped African slaves who took up arms for the king of England would be freed. British troops would regroup in the meeting halls of each colony to force obedience to the crown.
escaped African slaves who took up arms for the king of England would be freed.
(Q044) Ignoring the Proclamation of 1763 enabled colonists to do what action in the Borderlands? remain on the East Coast migrate to England expand westward sail to Canada
expand westward
(Q017) What did the 1766 Declaratory Act declare? that an additional tax was to be laid on sugar imports from Spain's Caribbean colonies that the settlement of colonists west of the Appalachian Proclamation Line of 1763 was prohibited that if the British did not lift the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty would raze Thomas Hutchinson's house that Parliament had the power to pass laws for all of the colonies "in all cases whatever"
that Parliament had the power to pass laws for all of the colonies "in all cases whatever"
(Q011) 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 their elected colonial officeholders, especially in proprietary colonies. colonial members of Parliament and the Privy Council. virtual representation. the King himself.
virtual representation.
(Q018) 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. a group of artisans, centered in Charleston, who sought to regulate goods from skilled craftsmen, particularly in the silk, indigo, and silver industries. poor women in the Carolinas who demanded that the price of bread and other necessities be regulated by the colonial government. a group of marksmen who regularly roamed the countryside and shot fugitive slaves.
a group of wealthy residents of the backcountry who protested the lack of courts and lack of representation in the colonial governance.
(Q009) British success in the Seven Years' War contributed to the making of the American Revolution because Britain refused to recognize George Washington as governor of Virginia. the British alienated French colonists in Nova Scotia. the British government raised taxes to pay for the debt it incurred during the war. the British showed little concern for the lives and property of colonists.
the British government raised taxes to pay for the debt it incurred during the war.
(Q005) Which of the following was a feature of the 1774 Intolerable Acts? the suppression of town meetings and local elections the repression of Catholicism in the colonies the closing of the port of Baltimore as punishment for acts of protest the quartering of British government officials in private homes
the suppression of town meetings and local elections
(Q079) The brutal treatment of civilians by British forces under Col. Banastre Tarleton persuaded many Americans to join the patriot cause. true false
true
