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A key consequence of the Battle of Saratoga in October 1777 was: |
France’s becoming an ally to the United States. |
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All of the following were advantages enjoyed by the British during the American Revolution EXCEPT: |
an intimate knowledge of the terrain. |
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Britain responded to the Boston Tea Party with: |
the Intolerable Acts. |
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Crispus Attucks: |
was a person of mixed race killed at the Boston Massacre. |
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During the Revolutionary War, tensions between backcountry farmers and wealthy planters: |
gave the British hope that they might be able to enlist the support of southern Loyalists. |
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In 1778, the focus of the war shifted: |
to the South, where the British captured Savannah that year. |
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In the winter of 1776–1777, Washington won important victories that improved American morale. These battles were at: |
Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey |
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In the years immediately before the American Revolution, the concept of natural rights: |
greatly influenced Thomas Jefferson’s early writings. |
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The “Daughters of Liberty” was the name given to: |
women who spun and wove their own clothing rather than buying British goods. |
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The Committees of Safety: |
were part of a series of efforts by the Continental Congress to promote unity and to take action against enemies of liberty. |
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The Declaratory Act: |
rejected Americans’ claims that only their elected representatives could levy taxes. |
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The expulsion of the journalist John Wilkes from his seat in Parliament: |
symbolized the threat to liberty for many in both Britain and America. |
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The main point of The American Crisis was: |
to inspire American soldiers to continue to fight despite demoralizing military losses. |
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The negotiation of the Treaty of Paris of 1783: |
began only after the Battle of Yorktown. |
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The Quebec Act: |
granted religious toleration to Catholics in Canada. |
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The Sons of Liberty: |
was the creation of New York residents who led boycotts of British goods. |
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The Stamp Act created such a stir in the colonies because: |
it was the first direct tax Parliament imposed on the colonies. |
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Virtual representation was the idea: |
that each member of Britain’s House of Commons represented the entire empire, not just his own district. |
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Washington’s defeat of Cornwallis at Yorktown: |
destroyed British public support for the war. |
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What armed group, motivated by deep frustrations with the corruption of North Carolina’s county officials, was defeated by the colony’s militia at the 1771 Battle of Alamance? |
the Regulators |
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What contribution did the Stamp Act episode make to the colonists’ concept of liberty? |
The Stamp Act Congress insisted that the right to consent to taxation was essential to people’s freedom. |
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What did Lord Dunmore do that horrified many southerners? |
He promised freedom to slaves who joined the British cause. |
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What major event first led the British government to seek ways to make the colonies bear part of the cost of the empire? |
the Seven Years’ War |
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Which one of the following did NOT specifically provide for direct or indirect taxes on the colonies? |
the Declaratory Act |
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Which one of the following is true of the soldiers who fought for American independence? |
Soldiers fought as volunteers in the Continental army or as a requirement in a militia. |
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Which one of the following statements about Thomas Paine’s Common Sense is FALSE? |
It was breathtakingly original in its ideas. |
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Which one of the following statements regarding black soldiers during the American Revolution is FALSE? |
No southern state allowed blacks to serve in its militia. |
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Which one of the following was associated with the Intolerable Acts? |
The Massachusetts Charter of 1691 was changed to curtail town meetings. |
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Why did colonists object to the Tea Act? |
By paying it, they would be acknowledging Great Britain’s right to tax the colonists. |
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Although a few were outraged by the Stamp Act, most politically active colonists actually supported it. |
False |
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American colonists widely believed that Britain had no authority to tax the colonists since the colonists had no elected representative in Parliament. |
True |
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American leaders viewed the British empire as an association of equals. |
True |
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Americans did not gain much more than independence from the Treaty of Paris. |
False |
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Benedict Arnold almost succeeded in turning over to the British the important fort of Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain. |
False |
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British commanders were never able to consolidate their hold on the South. |
True |
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Great Britain had the world’s largest navy. |
True |
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Homespun clothing became a symbol of American resistance during the American boycott on British goods. |
True |
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James Chalmers, the Loyalist and member of Maryland’s planter elite, equated independence with slavery. |
True |
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John Wilkes was expelled from his seat in Parliament for his scandalous writings about the king; this caused many colonists to rally to his side with the call “Wilkes and Liberty.” |
True |
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Samuel Adams defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre in a court of law. |
False |
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Siding with the British offered slaves far more opportunities for liberty than did siding with the pro-independence Americans. |
True |
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The American victory at Trenton convinced the French to join the American cause. |
False |
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The First Continental Congress raised an army and appointed George Washington as its commander. |
False |
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The French played a significant role in the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. |
True |
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The idea of American exceptionalism was prevalent in the Revolution. |
True |
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The Sons of Liberty enforced a boycott of British goods. |
True |
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The Treaty of Paris was negotiated within six months after Cornwallis’s surrender. |
False |
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Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense as a response to Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence. |
False |
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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense was written specifically for the educated elite. |
False |
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Washington’s army was demoralized by repeated failures early in the war, and many soldiers simply went home. |
True |