Exam 5: The American Revolution,1763-1783

During the eight years of war,approximately how many Americans bore arms in the Continental army and state militias?

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Thomas Paine

Blacks who fought under George Washington did so in segregated units.

As the imperial crisis deepened in the late 1760s and into the 1770s,Americans increasingly based their claims not simply on the historical rights of Englishmen but on the more abstract language of natural rights and universal freedom.Thinking back to previous chapters,chronicle this evolution from the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution to the Great Awakening and Enlightenment and finally to the events of the 1760s and 1770s.Your essay should demonstrate the various definitions of freedom and liberty from the mid-seventeenth century until the Revolutionary era.

What was one important legacy of the Declaration of Independence?

In the same year the Declaration of Independence was signed,

Who argued that "true liberty" could only be achieved by remaining in the British Empire?

The American victory at Trenton convinced the French to join the American cause.

At the first Continental Congress,who declared,"I am not a Virginian,but an American"?

After what major event did the British government make the colonies bear part of the cost of the empire?

Discuss the debates that occurred over virtual representation.How did the leaders in London and the leaders in America view participation in governing the empire differently?

In the Declaration of Independence,Jefferson's biggest influence with regard to natural rights came from?

MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Crispus Attucks

American colonists widely believed that Britain had no authority to tax the colonists since the colonists had no elected representative in Parliament.

Prior to the Seven Years' War,Britain had not tried to regulate the colonies' economy.

What political movement of the seventeenth century resembled the 1760s Regulator movement in South Carolina?

What ultimately led to the Americans using black recruits in the Continental army?

Although a few were outraged by the Stamp Act,most politically active colonists actually supported it.

What prevents something like the Intolerable Acts from occurring in the United States today?

Benedict Arnold almost succeeded in turning over to the British the important Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain.