Exam 6: The Revolutionary Republic, 1776-1789

Southern delegates to Congress all opposed the Northwest Ordinance.

George Washington is best described as

The British believed that the ____________________ was the most likely recruiting ground for armed loyalists.

Compare and contrast the Virginia and New Jersey Plans that were debated at the Constitutional Convention.

Congress first contemplated how to forge a union in 1776; the states ratified the document that outlined the terms of that union -- Articles of Confederation -- in​

The war for American independence was ended with the Treaty of ____________________.

The central government under the Articles of Confederation raised money by

The final major battle in the Revolutionary War was fought at

After their defeat in 1776, ____________________ ceded a large tract of land in Tennessee.

____________________ enacted the modern world's first gradual emancipation statute in 1780.

Long before agreeing to a formal alliance, the French secretly aided the American rebellion against Britain.

France declared war on England after the treaties with the United States were signed in early 1778.

Before 1787, most of the land in the Northwest Territory was purchased by independent settlers.

Thomas Jefferson wrote Thoughts on Government in 1776.

Americans expected a quick victory in the war after which of the following events?

In the 1780s, the Church of England in the United States reorganized itself as the Protestant ____________________ Church.

____________________ authored Virginia's Statute on Religious Freedom.

During the Revolution, about ____________________ percent of slaves fled their owners.

The Northwest Ordinance (1787) prohibited slavery in the Northwest (Ohio) Territory.

Describe the failure of the British military strategy in the war for American independence.