American History Connecting with the Past 15Th Edition By Alan Brinkley - Test Bank

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Chapter 5

The American Revolution

 

 

Multiple-Choice Questions

 

1. In 1775, as conflicts with England intensified, American colonists
2. made extensive efforts to prepare themselves for war.
3. were deeply divided about what they were fighting for.
4. believed England was not willing to engage in military operations against them.
5. saw their larger population as a key advantage over England.
6. considered arming slaves to help build up the colonial army.

Answer: B

Page: 129

Topic: The Decision for Independence

 

2. Published in January 1776, Common Sense was written by
3. Thomas Jefferson.
4. Thomas Paine.
5. James Madison.
6. Ben Franklin.
7. James Otis.

Answer: B

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Topic: The Decision for Independence

 

3. The author of Common Sense
4. sought to concentrate colonial anger on unpopular parliamentary measures.
5. was an American who had never been to England.
6. sold very few copies of his pamphlet until after the war was won.
7. was arrested by British officials and charged with treason.
8. considered the English constitution to be the greatest problem facing the colonists.

Answer: E

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Topic: The Decision for Independence

 

4. The Declaration of Independence
5. borrowed heavily from previously published colonial documents.
6. was never formally approved by the Second Continental Congress.
7. avoided making any direct criticism of the king.
8. called for the formation of a two-party democracy.
9. originally recommended that all slaves be freed.

Answer: A

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Topic: The Decision for Independence

 

5. Financing the Revolution was difficult for the American side because
6. hard currency was scarce.
7. the printing of paper money was illegal.
8. foreign nations refused to loan money for the war effort.
9. bonds were not yet in use.
10. the colonists’ wealth had all been kept in London.

Answer: A

Page: 131

Topic: Mobilizing for War

 

6. The war effort by American colonists would be financed primarily by
7. spending hard currency.
8. printing paper money.
9. borrowing from abroad.
10. selling bonds.
11. melting down jewelry into specie.

Answer: C

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Topic: Mobilizing for War

 

7. As commander of the Continental army, George Washington
8. had no shortage of Americans willing to volunteer to fight the British.
9. had no previous actual military experience.
10. was an early critic of independence.
11. saw Congress leave all important military decisions up to his judgment.
12. was admired, respected, and trusted by nearly all Patriots.

Answer: E

Page: 132

Topic: Mobilizing for War

 

8. At the start of the Revolution, American advantages over the British included a
9. greater commitment to the war.
10. larger number of troops.
11. better equipped navy.
12. more coherent military command structure.
13. better relationship with Native American tribes.

Answer: A

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Topic: The War for Independence

 

 

 

 

 

 

9. Which of the following took place during the first phase (1775–1776) of the Revolutionary War?
10. British troops evacuated Boston.
11. American troops captured Quebec.
12. The British won a significant victory in North Carolina.
13. American troops took Nova Scotia.
14. British troops under William Howe captured Philadelphia.

Answer: A

Page: 134

Topic: The War for Independence

 

10. In the Battle of Bunker Hill,
11. the Patriots suffered light casualties and won the battle.
12. the British suffered heavy casualties.
13. Benedict Arnold was wounded.
14. the British surrendered their main forces to the Patriots.
15. the Patriots refused to withdraw and were all killed.

Answer: B

Page: 134

Topic: The War for Independence

 

11. During the second phase (1776–1778) of the American Revolution, British military efforts were hampered by
12. a series of tactical blunders and misfortunes.
13. a severe shortage of new soldiers coming from England.
14. an American blockade of British ships.
15. the American capture of the commanding British general.
16. American alliances with Native American tribes in the region.

Answer: A

Page: 135

Topic: The War for Independence

 

12. When George Washington crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night, 1776, he was intent on surprising
13. American Loyalists.
14. Indians.
15. the Hessians.
16. British regulars.
17. William Howe.

Answer: C

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Topic: The War for Independence

 

 

 

 

13. Among the following, who was NOT a British general during the American Revolution?
14. Thomas Gage
15. William Howe
16. John Burgoyne
17. Horatio Gates
18. Barry St. Leger

Answer: D

Page: 137

Topic: The War for Independence

 

14. The British military campaigns of 1777 saw
15. General William Howe stay in camp when he was supposed to have moved south.
16. General John Burgoyne suffer a major defeat at Saratoga.
17. a major American victory at Philadelphia.
18. the British surround and lay siege to George Washington’s army at Valley Forge.
19. the British retake Boston and set it afire.

Answer: B

Page: 137

Topic: The War for Independence

 

15. During the American Revolution, the Iroquois Confederacy officially
16. declared its neutrality.
17. allied itself with the colonists.
18. allied itself with the British.
19. refused to ally with either combatant until France entered the war.
20. disbanded and withdrew to the west.

Answer: A

Page: 138

Topic: The War for Independence

 

16. In early 1778, France
17. withdrew military naval support from the U.S., but continued to provide monetary assistance and supplies.
18. expelled the colonies’ diplomats, including Benjamin Franklin, from Paris.
19. agreed to give the Americans money and supplies, but withheld its soldiers.
20. declared war on both England and Spain.
21. recognized the United States as a sovereign nation to help prevent it from abandoning the war effort.

Answer: E

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Topic: The War for Independence

 

 

 

 

 

17. In the aftermath of the Declaration of Independence, the colonies began to call themselves states
18. because that was how they were defined in the preamble.
19. in response to the British custom of calling them provinces.
20. due to the belief that each was a sovereign entity.
21. as a deliberate means of undermining the formation of a single American nation.
22. None of these answers is correct.

Answer: C

Page: 131

Topic: The Decision for Independence

 

18. Which of the following nations became involved in a general war against England during the American Revolution?
19. Belgium
20. Canada
21. the Netherlands
22. Portugal
23. Sweden

Answer: C

Page: 140

Topic: The War for Independence

 

19. In the final phase (1778–1781) of the American Revolution, the British
20. mounted their largest military assault against the Continental army.
21. badly overestimated the support of American Loyalists.
22. made a focused effort to win public support in the northern colonies.
23. concentrated their efforts on capturing individual Patriots.
24. began a policy of “total war” that resulted in several cities being burned to the ground.

Answer: B

Page: 140

Topic: The War for Independence

 

20. As the fighting in the final phase of the American Revolution (1778–1781) carried into communities previously isolated from the war,
21. local criticism of Patriots increased.
22. American armies engaged in more large, open-field battles.
23. support for independence greatly increased.
24. large segments of the American population became war refugees.
25. more Loyalists began actively helping the British.

Answer: C

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Topic: The War for Independence

 

 

 

 

21. Which of the following statements regarding Benedict Arnold is FALSE?
22. Arnold was an American military hero early in the war.
23. During the war, Arnold grew convinced the American cause was hopeless.
24. Arnold conspired with the British to betray a Patriot stronghold at West Point, New York.
25. Arnold had previously foiled the advance of Barry St. Leger into the Mohawk Valley.
26. Arnold spent the last years of the Revolution as a prisoner of war.

Answer: E

Page: 140

Topic: The War for Independence

 

22. Which of the following was the scene of a substantial British victory in the final phase (1778–1781) of the American Revolution?
23. Cowpens
24. Charleston
25. Yorktown
26. Guilford Court House
27. Saratoga

Answer: B

Page: 141

Topic: The War for Independence

 

23. Which of the following statements regarding General Nathaniel Greene is FALSE?
24. He led American forces to victory in the battle at Yorktown.
25. He divided his forces into fast-moving contingents to confuse and exasperate Cornwallis.
26. He was one of the most effective commanders in the American army.
27. He replaced Horatio Gates as commander of the southern forces in the Continental army.
28. He was forced to withdraw at Guilford Court House after inflicting heavy losses.

Answer: A

Page: 141-142

Topic: The War for Independence

 

24. The battle at Yorktown involved
25. the most bloody battle of the war.
26. the suicide of the commanding British general.
27. evidence that the British were executing prisoners of war.
28. a combined French and American army and navy.
29. treachery on the part of Benedict Arnold.

Answer: D

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Topic: The War for Independence

 

 

 

 

 

 

25. The principal Americans who negotiated the peace terms with the British were
26. Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.
27. Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and John Adams.
28. John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, and Samuel Huntington.
29. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.
30. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay.

Answer: E

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Topic: The War for Independence

 

26. Under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1783,
27. the United States gained formal British recognition of American independence.
28. Spain received Gibraltar from the English.
29. the United States received all territory east of the Rocky Mountains.
30. France received Canada from the English.
31. England was forced to pay reparations to the new American nation.

Answer: A

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Topic: The War for Independence

 

27. During the American Revolution, Loyalists
28. were forced to leave the colonies soon after the war began.
29. were nearly all office holders in the English government.
30. were forbidden by the Patriots to move to England until the war had ended.
31. constituted perhaps as many as one-third of the white colonial population.
32. freed their slaves to help augment British forces in the colonies.

Answer: D

Page: 143

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

28. As a result of the American Revolution, the Anglican Church in America was
29. weakened.
30. banned in most colonies.
31. made the official religion of Virginia.
32. praised by Patriots for supporting independence.
33. tried for aiding and abetting the British.

Answer: A

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Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

29. During the American Revolution, enslaved African Americans in the colonies
30. joined the British army in large numbers to fight against their American masters.
31. were assisted by the British to escape, as a way to disrupt the American war effort.
32. were offered their freedom by Americans if they fought against the British.
33. tried to help Loyalists escape to Canada in exchange for their freedom.
34. were not significantly affected by the conflict.

Answer: B

Page: 145

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

30. The fear of ________ helped prevent English colonists in the Caribbean islands from joining with the continental Americans in the revolt against Britain.
31. the British navy
32. economic repercussions
33. French intervention
34. hurricanes
35. slave rebellions

Answer: E

Page: 145

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

31. Which of the following statements regarding the American Revolution and Native Americans is FALSE?
32. The outcome of the war largely weakened the position of Indians.
33. Indians generally had better relations with the British than with the Americans.
34. White Americans’ attitudes toward the tribes took a turn for the worse during the war.
35. American Patriots had generally tried to persuade Indians to be neutral in the war.
36. Some Indians took advantage of the conflict to launch attacks of their own.

Answer: C

Page: 146-147

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

32. During the American Revolution, female “camp followers”
33. assisted in the support of regular troops.
34. played traditional female roles and were not involved in combat.
35. served to maintain traditional gender distinctions.
36. were prostitutes.
37. often inadvertently betrayed the position of Washington’s army.

Answer: A

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Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

 

 

 

 

33. Regarding the status of women, the effect of the American Revolution
34. was minimal and short-term.
35. was to dismantle the patriarchal legal system.
36. was to end the traditional cultural concepts of the female role in society.
37. generally weakened the position of women in society.
38. led some women to question their position in society.

Answer: E

Page: 147

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

34. In 1776, Abigail Adams was an advocate for
35. full gender equality in the new postwar nation.
36. a woman’s right to vote.
37. new protections for women against abusive and tyrannical men.
38. support for impoverished war widows.
39. temperance.

Answer: C

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Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

35. The prominent eighteenth-century essayist Judith Sargent Murray placed her greatest emphasis on the right of women to
36. vote.
37. own property.
38. divorce.
39. obtain an education.
40. serve in combat.

Answer: D

Page: 147

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

36. In colonial America, under English common law a married woman
37. could not own property.
38. had more legal rights than unmarried women.
39. had legal authority over her children.
40. could not earn wages greater than her husband.
41. could only initiate divorce in case of adultery.

Answer: A

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Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

 

 

 

 

37. Following the American Revolution, as the republic took shape in the 1780s, greater social importance was attached to women in the role of
38. wives.
39. feminists.
40. citizens.
41. nurses.
42. mothers.

Answer: E

Page: 148-149

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

38. Post-Revolution American domestic manufacturing was stimulated by
39. favorable trade agreements with England.
40. an English desire to protect American vessels.
41. the closing of British ports to American trade.
42. British abandonment of impressments.
43. the flood of immigration after the war.

Answer: C

Page: 149

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

39. The core American political ideology of the postwar period considered the success of the new republican governments to be dependent on
40. a strong central governing authority.
41. the development of heavy industry.
42. westward expansion.
43. the creation of a strong military.
44. independent landowners.

Answer: E

Page: 150

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

40. For most Revolutionary American political thinkers, the concept of equality meant that there should be equality of
41. opportunity.
42. rights, regardless of race, sex, or property.
43. condition.
44. opportunity and of condition.
45. rights and of condition.

Answer: A

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Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

 

 

 

41. During the 1780s, in every new state constitution,
42. state legislatures were to be chosen by a direct popular vote.
43. governors were prevented from holding a seat in the legislature.
44. property requirements for voting were relaxed or eliminated.
45. women were denied the right to vote.
46. governors were given the authority to tax.

Answer: B

Page: 150

Topic: The Creation of State Governments

 

42. During the 1780s, most state governments
43. moved to limit popular power.
44. were notable for their stability.
45. found it difficult to revise their constitutions.
46. remained strongly elitist.
47. eliminated property requirements for voters.

Answer: A

Page: 150

Topic: The Creation of State Governments

 

43. In 1780, Massachusetts sought to revise the power of the governor by
44. allowing the legislature to set his salary.
45. having him elected directly by the people.
46. taking away his authority to veto legislation.
47. permitting him to sit in the legislature.
48. granting him the power to tax.

Answer: B

Page: 150

Topic: The Creation of State Governments

 

44. The Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty of 1786
45. was written by James Madison.
46. called for a complete separation of church and state.
47. gave all religious denominations special privileges within the state.
48. only applied to Christian denominations.
49. All these answers are correct.

Answer: B

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Topic: The Creation of State Governments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

45. Which statement about slavery in America in the 1780s is true?
46. In no state was it illegal.
47. Many southern states prohibited the importation of slaves from abroad.
48. Virginia passed a law forbidding the manumission of slaves.
49. The strongest forces against slavery were found in the western colonies.
50. Most whites believed blacks should be integrated into American society as equals.

Answer: B

Page: 151

Topic: The Creation of State Governments

 

46. Under the Articles of Confederation in 1777 there was a federal
47. Congress.
48. judiciary.
49. executive.
50. bureaucracy.
51. All these answers are correct.

Answer: A

Page: 151

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

47. Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to
48. regulate trade.
49. draft troops.
50. borrow and issue money.
51. levy direct taxes on the people.
52. override state laws.

Answer: C

Page: 151-152

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

48. Under the Articles of Confederation,
49. each state had one vote in Congress.
50. all states had to approve any important measure.
51. there could be no amendments to the Articles.
52. no legislation could be passed without all states voting on the issue.
53. the executive had the power to veto legislative decisions.

Answer: A

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Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

49. The Articles of Confederation were adopted when states gave up their
50. power to regulate trade.
51. power to make war.
52. claims to western lands.
53. right to levy their own taxes.
54. plans for emancipation.

Answer: C

Page: 152

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

50. Shortly after signing the Treaty of Paris of 1783, the British government
51. evacuated its forts in America.
52. made restitution to slaveholders for slaves the British army had freed during the war.
53. attempted to purchase Florida.
54. restricted American access to British markets.
55. declared war on Spain to take its New World colonies away.

Answer: D

Page: 153

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

51. Who did the Congress send to London as a minister in 1784 to resolve the differences between the Confederation and the British regarding the peace treaty of 1783?
52. Benjamin Franklin
53. James Madison
54. John Jay
55. John Adams
56. George Washington

Answer: D

Page: 153

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

52. The Ordinances of 1784 and 1785 represented an attempt to
53. eliminate slavery in the western states.
54. compromise on the question of slavery expanding into the territories.
55. enhance the power of the central government.
56. gain redress from the English at the expense of Native Americans.
57. provide for the admission of new states into the union.

Answer: E

Page: 154

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

 

 

 

 

 

53. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
54. created a single territory out of the lands north of Ohio.
55. guaranteed freedom of religion throughout the affected areas.
56. prohibited slavery within the affected areas.
57. abandoned the system created in the 1784 Ordinance.
58. All these answers are correct.

Answer: E

Page: 154-155

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

54. In the early 1790s, the efforts of Little Turtle represented an attempt by Indians to
55. accommodate white settlers.
56. maintain their lands given through treaties.
57. resist white expansion by military force.
58. negotiate the sale of Indian lands.
59. encourage England to mediate a settlement between Indians and the new nation.

Answer: C

Page: 155

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

55. The 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers
56. forced the Miami Indians into negotiations with the United States.
57. saw the U.S. forces suffer a significant defeat.
58. led the United States to temporarily evacuate from the Ohio Valley.
59. resulted in the death of General Anthony Wayne.
60. represented the last major military victory for Indians against the U.S.

Answer: A

Page: 155

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

56. The 1795 Treaty of Greenville
57. allowed the Miami Indians navigation rights to the Mississippi.
58. compelled the Miami Indians to move out of the Ohio Valley.
59. was never signed by any Indian leaders.
60. removed all restrictions to white settlement of the Ohio Valley.
61. led the United States to affirm that Indian lands could be ceded only by the tribes themselves.

Answer: E

Page: 155

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

57. As leaders of a tax rebellion the 1780s, Daniel Shays and his supporters demanded
58. the nation’s capital be moved to New England.
59. an end to paper currency.
60. a moratorium on debt collection.
61. renewed trade agreements with England.
62. the right to vote for all white men, regardless of property holdings.

Answer: C

Page: 156

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

58. One effect of Shays’s Rebellion was that it
59. temporarily brought a halt to the new American government.
60. led the federal government to adopt the gold standard.
61. led to the downfall of the state government in Massachusetts.
62. contributed to the growing belief the national government needed reform.
63. encouraged Massachusetts to adopt gradual emancipation.

Answer: D

Page: 156

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

 

True/False Questions

 

59. The Declaration of Independence borrowed heavily from previously written colonial documents.

Answer: True

Page: 131

Topic: The Decision for Independence

 

60. The beginning of hostilities in 1775 found the colonies generally unprepared for war.

Answer: True

Page: 129

Topic: The Decision for Independence

 

61. One effect the Declaration of Independence had was that individual colonies were motivated to reconstitute themselves as “states.”

Answer: True

Page: 131

Topic: The Decision for Independence

 

62. Immediately following Lexington and Concord, it is safe to say that most Americans now saw their main goal as independence from Great Britain.

Answer: False

Page: 129

Topic: The Decision for Independence

 

63. To Thomas Paine it made “common sense” to break from Parliament, but not from the king.

Answer: False

Page: 130

Topic: The Decision for Independence

 

64. In composing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson borrowed heavily from the political theories of Thomas Hobbes.

Answer: False

Page: 130-131

Topic: The Decision for Independence

 

65. Both Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, and the various state legislatures had the power to independently tax individual Americans.

Answer: False

Page: 131

Topic: Mobilizing for War

 

66. When George Washington took command of the Continental army, he did not have a great deal of public confidence.

Answer: False

Page: 135

Topic: Mobilizing for War

 

67. The Battle of Saratoga (1777) was both a turning point in the Revolutionary War and a victory for the colonists.

Answer: True

Page: 137

Topic: The War for Independence

 

68. During the Revolutionary War, the Iroquois Confederacy was united in its allegiance to Great Britain.

Answer: False

Page: 138

Topic: The War for Independence

 

69. The United States never negotiated a formal alliance with France during the Revolutionary War.

Answer: False

Page: 140

Topic: The War for Independence

 

 

 

 

 

70. France was an American ally during the Revolutionary War, but it did not provide the Americans with significant amounts of money or munitions.

Answer: False

Page: 140

Topic: The War for Independence

 

71. Loyalist sentiment was thought to be stronger in the South than in the North.

Answer: True

Page: 140

Topic: The War for Independence

 

72. Cornwallis’s defeat at Yorktown led not only to the resignation of Lord North as prime minister, but to public outcries in England against continuing the war.

Answer: True

Page: 143

Topic: The War for Independence

 

73. The Americans violated their alliance with France by negotiating a peace with Great Britain without informing the French.

Answer: True

Page: 143

Topic: The War for Independence

 

74. Few Loyalists were so disaffected as to leave the United States as a result of their opposition to the Revolutionary War.

Answer: False

Page: 143

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

75. The influence of the Anglican Church in the United States was strengthened as a result of the Revolutionary War.

Answer: False

Page: 144

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

76. Both Quakers and Catholics were strengthened as a result of their support for the Patriot cause and the Revolutionary War.

Answer: False

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Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

 

 

 

 

77. For some African Americans, the Revolution meant increased exposure to the concept of liberty.

Answer: True

Page: 145

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

78. By the end of the Revolutionary War, the position of Native Americans in and near the United States had been strengthened by their support of the Patriot cause.

Answer: False

Page: 147

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

79. The Revolutionary War increased already-deep internal divisions among Native American tribes.

Answer: True

Page: 147

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

80. Women, sometimes by choice but more often by necessity, flocked to the camps of the Patriot armies during the Revolutionary War.

Answer: True

Page: 147

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

81. The American Revolution did little to change the legal status of American women.

Answer: True

Page: 148

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

82. Under English common law, a single woman had greater legal rights than a married woman.

Answer: True

Page: 148

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

83. The general assumptions of American republicanism were modeled after those of French thinkers.

Answer: False

Page: 150

Topic: The Creation of State Governments

 

84. The republican concept of equality included the belief that not all people would live equally.

Answer: True

Page: 150

Topic: The Creation of State Governments

 

85. New state constitutions drafted during the Revolutionary War sought to expand the power of the executive.

Answer: False

Page: 150

Topic: The Creation of State Governments

 

86. Every new state constitution prevented the state’s governor from holding a seat in the state legislature.

Answer: True

Page: 150

Topic: The Creation of State Governments

 

87. When the United States began as a nation, most citizens were independent property holders.

Answer: False

Page: 150

Topic: The Creation of State Governments

 

88. Only a few of the new state constitutions provided for a two-house legislature.

Answer: False

Page: 150

Topic: The Creation of State Governments

 

89. In 1780, Massachusetts began a trend by expanding the power of the state’s governor.

Answer: True

Page: 150

Topic: The Creation of State Governments

 

90. Thomas Jefferson had deep moral misgivings about slavery, but he could not envision any alternative to it.

Answer: True

Page: 151

Topic: The Creation of State Governments

 

91. The Articles of Confederation provided for a separate judiciary and executive.

Answer: False

Page: 151-152

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

92. The Articles of Confederation could not be amended until all thirteen state legislatures approved.

Answer: True

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Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

 

 

93. Throughout the 1780s, the British government refused to send a diplomatic minister to America.

Answer: True

Page: 153

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

94. The Confederation’s most important accomplishment was its resolution of controversies over access to the Mississippi River.

Answer: False

Page: 153

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

95. The ordinances of 1784 and 1785 were more favorable to settlers than to land speculators.

Answer: False

Page: 154

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

96. The Northwest Ordinance guaranteed freedom of religion and banned slavery.

Answer: True

Page: 155

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

97. The precise rectangular grid pattern imposed on the Northwest Territory eventually became the norm for much of the land west of the Appalachians.

Answer: True

Page: 154

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

98. Violence between Indians and whites on the northwest frontier largely subsided following the establishment of the Constitution of 1787.

Answer: False

Page: 155

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

99. Like Bacon’s Rebellion, Shays’s Rebellion occurred in Virginia.

Answer: False

Page: 156

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

100. Shays’s Rebellion was such a failure that it lessened the sense of need for a new federal constitution.

Answer: False

Page: 156

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

 

Fill-in-the-Blank Questions

 

101. Many American colonists were enraged when the British began recruiting German mercenaries known as ________.

Answer: Hessians

Page: 130

Topic: The Decision for Independence

 

102. In writing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson borrowed from the contract theory of ________.

Answer: John Locke

Page: 131

Topic: The Decision for Independence

 

103. The British commander in the Battle of Saratoga was ________.

Answer: John Burgoyne

Page: 137

Topic: The War for Independence

 

104. The blunders of General ________, one of which was leaving John Burgoyne to fight alone in the north, cost the British dearly in 1777.

Answer: William Howe

Page: 137

Topic: The War for Independence

 

105. The American diplomat who negotiated the French Alliance of 1778 was ________.

Answer: Benjamin Franklin

Page: 140

Topic: The War for Independence

 

106. The British commander forced to surrender at Yorktown was Lord ________.

Answer: Cornwallis

Page: 142

Topic: The War for Independence

 

107. As a result of the American Revolution, the ________ denomination was weakened in the colonies because its followers practiced pacifism.

Answer: Quaker

Page: 144

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

108. Thomas Jefferson referred to Native Americans as “________.”

Answer: noble savages

Page: 147

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

109. During the Revolutionary War, John Adams was asked by ________ to “remember the ladies.”

Answer: Abigail Adams

Page: 147

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

110. The Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty was written by ________.

Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Page: 151

Topic: The Creation of State Governments

 

111. The government plan adopted by the Continental Congress in 1777 was called the ________.

Answer: Articles of Confederation

Page: 151

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

112. In 1787, the ________ created a single territory out of the lands north of the Ohio River and prohibited slavery within that territory.

Answer: Northwest Ordinance

Page: 154-155

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

113. For the first time, in the Treaty of ________, the new federal government recognized that Indian lands could be ceded only by the tribes themselves.

Answer: Greenville

Page: 155

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

114. During the 1780s, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and others favored a “continental ________”—a 5 percent duty on imported goods.

Answer: impost

Page: 156

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

115. ________ led a failed rebellion of western farmers during the mid-1780s.

Answer: Daniel Shays

Page: 156

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Essay Questions

 

116. Weigh the advantages and disadvantages of each side in fighting the Revolutionary War.

Topic: Mobilizing for War

Topic: The War for Independence

 

117. Compare the leading personalities on both sides in an explanation as to why the upstart United States was able to defeat England.

Topic: The War for Independence

 

118. Describe the significance France played in the American Revolution.

Topic: The War for Independence

 

119. Considering the events from 1763 to 1781, what could England have done differently to either prevent war or be more successful in waging war?

Topic: The Decision for Independence

Topic: Mobilizing for War

Topic: The War for Independence

 

120. What impact did the American Revolution have on the rights and status of women?

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

121. What was the legacy of the American Revolution for Native Americans?

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

122. Characterize the debate over slavery in America immediately following the Revolution.

Topic: New American Ideals and Realities

 

123. How did the American ideology of republicanism affect the formation of state governments during and following the Revolutionary War?

Topic: The Creation of State Governments

 

124. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the structure of government as defined by the Articles of Confederation.

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

125. Considering the causes that led to the American Revolution, make a case that the Articles of Confederation were a logical form of government for the revolutionaries to adopt.

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

126. Why did the Articles of Confederation fail?

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

 

 

127. Detail the problems facing the Confederation over the issue of western land, and explain its success in resolving many of those problems.

Topic: The Formation of a National Government

 

128. Why was pressure building for a new constitution during the second half of the 1780s?

Topic: The Formation of a National Government