Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

The term "wall of separation" refers to

Question 2

The efforts to emancipate slaves in the 1770s and 1780s:

Accepted Answer

A)  occurred only in the New England states. 
B)  resulted entirely from voluntary work by slaveholders. 
C)  included all slaves north of South Carolina. 
D)  reflected the importance of property rights. 
E)  were reversed in 1792 by the U.S.Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case. 
A)  occurred only in the New England states. 
B)  resulted entirely from voluntary work by slaveholders. 
C)  included all slaves north of South Carolina. 
D)  reflected the importance of property rights. 
E)  were reversed in 1792 by the U.S.Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case.

Question 3

Despite many slaves being emancipated during and right after the American Revolution,why did the number of slaves increase by 200,000 from 1776 to 1790?

Accepted Answer

A)  As compensation for the war,the British sent many slaves from the Caribbean to the United States. 
B)  The Quakers gave up on the idea of trying to abolish slavery. 
C)  Owning slaves in the South was seen as a key ingredient to economic autonomy. 
D)  The North increased its demand for slaves and surpassed the amount of slaves residing in the South. 
E)  In the Declaration of Independence,Thomas Jefferson endorsed slavery. 
A)  As compensation for the war,the British sent many slaves from the Caribbean to the United States. 
B)  The Quakers gave up on the idea of trying to abolish slavery. 
C)  Owning slaves in the South was seen as a key ingredient to economic autonomy. 
D)  The North increased its demand for slaves and surpassed the amount of slaves residing in the South. 
E)  In the Declaration of Independence,Thomas Jefferson endorsed slavery.

Question 4

After the American Revolution,Nova Scotia and Quebec became part of the United States.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Thomas Jefferson's declaration that "all men are created equal" did not radically alter society.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Why did apprenticeship and indentured servitude decline after the Revolution?

Accepted Answer

A)  King George III had supported them,and anything associated with the king was unpopular in the United States. 
B)  Many apprentices and indentures had refused to fight in the Revolution,and their bosses,resenting them for it,got rid of them. 
C)  Thomas Paine's criticism of them in Common Sense greatly influenced the many who had read his pamphlet. 
D)  Northerners were outlawing slavery in their state constitutions and began to eliminate apprenticeship and indentured servitude as well amid southern charges of hypocrisy. 
E)  The lack of freedom inherent in apprenticeship and indentured servitude struck growing numbers of Americans as incompatible with republican citizenship. 
A)  King George III had supported them,and anything associated with the king was unpopular in the United States. 
B)  Many apprentices and indentures had refused to fight in the Revolution,and their bosses,resenting them for it,got rid of them. 
C)  Thomas Paine's criticism of them in Common Sense greatly influenced the many who had read his pamphlet. 
D)  Northerners were outlawing slavery in their state constitutions and began to eliminate apprenticeship and indentured servitude as well amid southern charges of hypocrisy. 
E)  The lack of freedom inherent in apprenticeship and indentured servitude struck growing numbers of Americans as incompatible with republican citizenship.

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

The answer of Identify and give the historical significance of...

Question 8

An example of anti-Catholicism during the 1770s was the:

Accepted Answer

A)  barring of Catholics from southern state militias. 
B)  Second Continental Congress's refusal to accept aid from Catholic France. 
C)  widespread arrests of Catholics as potential British spies by Pennsylvania authorities. 
D)  famous attack on a Boston convent by Massachusetts minutemen. 
E)  First Continental Congress's denunciation of the Quebec Act. 
A)  barring of Catholics from southern state militias. 
B)  Second Continental Congress's refusal to accept aid from Catholic France. 
C)  widespread arrests of Catholics as potential British spies by Pennsylvania authorities. 
D)  famous attack on a Boston convent by Massachusetts minutemen. 
E)  First Continental Congress's denunciation of the Quebec Act.

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

Virtuous citizenry refers to a populatio

Question 10

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-free labor

Accepted Answer

A) raised funds to assist American soldiers 
B) working for wages,or owning a farm or shop 
C) an offensive term for the rituals of the Catholic Church 
D) "School of political democracy" 
E) retained their allegiance to the crown
F)fighting for the American cause
G)Revolution undermined church authority among this group
H)responsible for raising the next generation of leaders
I)the right to vote
J)action slaves took for their immediate release
K)ability to sacrifice self-interest for the public good
L)settlement in Africa for freed slaves 
A) raised funds to assist American soldiers 
B) working for wages,or owning a farm or shop 
C) an offensive term for the rituals of the Catholic Church 
D) "School of political democracy" 
E) retained their allegiance to the crown
F)fighting for the American cause
G)Revolution undermined church authority among this group
H)responsible for raising the next generation of leaders
I)the right to vote
J)action slaves took for their immediate release
K)ability to sacrifice self-interest for the public good
L)settlement in Africa for freed slaves

Question 11

The property qualification for voting was hotly debated during the 1770s and 1780s.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

During the American Revolutionary War,the buying and selling of slaves was temporarily halted.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Freedom and an individual's right to vote had become interchangeable by the war's end.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

MATCHING
Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Joseph Brant

Accepted Answer

A) black poet 
B) Pennsylvania radical 
C) Thoughts on Government author 
D) burned forty Indian towns 
E) America's first Roman Catholic bishop
F)director of congressional fiscal policy
G)The Selling of Joseph author
H)wrote of universal freedom,even for blacks
I)drafted Virginia's "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom"
J)"Remember the ladies"
K)The Wealth of Nations author
L)Mohawk Indian 
A) black poet 
B) Pennsylvania radical 
C) Thoughts on Government author 
D) burned forty Indian towns 
E) America's first Roman Catholic bishop
F)director of congressional fiscal policy
G)The Selling of Joseph author
H)wrote of universal freedom,even for blacks
I)drafted Virginia's "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom"
J)"Remember the ladies"
K)The Wealth of Nations author
L)Mohawk Indian

Question 15

Why did John Adams believe that land ownership was vital to society?

Accepted Answer

A)  He opposed slavery and felt that if small farmers owned land,they would have the power to outvote slaveowners. 
B)  If more people owned land,it would be less likely that fixed and unequal social classes would emerge. 
C)  Land ownership would make people more conservative,and that would counteract any democratic impulses. 
D)  Government would have to encourage it,and Adams believed in an activist federal government. 
E)  Adams had lost his land when he took the unpopular position of representing British soldiers who participated in the Boston Massacre,and he knew how important the issue was. 
A)  He opposed slavery and felt that if small farmers owned land,they would have the power to outvote slaveowners. 
B)  If more people owned land,it would be less likely that fixed and unequal social classes would emerge. 
C)  Land ownership would make people more conservative,and that would counteract any democratic impulses. 
D)  Government would have to encourage it,and Adams believed in an activist federal government. 
E)  Adams had lost his land when he took the unpopular position of representing British soldiers who participated in the Boston Massacre,and he knew how important the issue was.

Question 16

In Canada,the Loyalist exiles were viewed as national founding fathers.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

"Freedom" had not played a major part in Indians' vocabulary before the Revolution,but after the war,freedom meant defending their own independence and retaining possession of their land.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

In regard to Loyalists during the American Revolution:

Accepted Answer

A)  State governments encouraged free press,including opposition to American independence. 
B)  The New England states forced Loyalists into militias against their will. 
C)  Congress discouraged the idea of oaths of allegiance. 
D)  Loyalists were sold into slavery in Canada. 
E)  Freedom of expression was curbed during the American Revolution. 
A)  State governments encouraged free press,including opposition to American independence. 
B)  The New England states forced Loyalists into militias against their will. 
C)  Congress discouraged the idea of oaths of allegiance. 
D)  Loyalists were sold into slavery in Canada. 
E)  Freedom of expression was curbed during the American Revolution.

Question 19

In his Thoughts on Government (1776),John Adams advocated state constitutions that provided for:

Accepted Answer

A)  a powerful governor and a two-house legislature that reflected the division of society between wealthy and ordinary men. 
B)  a legislature elected and controlled entirely by the wealthy,with a weak governor elected by the people so that they would feel that they had a role. 
C)  voting rights for all men at least twenty-one years old. 
D)  centralizing political power in a one-house legislature and dispensing with the office of governor. 
E)  allowing women who owned a certain amount of property to vote but preventing them from holding political office. 
A)  a powerful governor and a two-house legislature that reflected the division of society between wealthy and ordinary men. 
B)  a legislature elected and controlled entirely by the wealthy,with a weak governor elected by the people so that they would feel that they had a role. 
C)  voting rights for all men at least twenty-one years old. 
D)  centralizing political power in a one-house legislature and dispensing with the office of governor. 
E)  allowing women who owned a certain amount of property to vote but preventing them from holding political office.

Question 20

Adam Smith's argument that the "invisible hand" of the free market directed economic life more effectively and fairly than governmental intervention offered intellectual justification for those who believed that the economy should be left to regulate itself.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

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

The efforts to emancipate slaves in the 1770s and 1780s:

Despite many slaves being emancipated during and right after the American Revolution,why did the number of slaves increase by 200,000 from 1776 to 1790?

After the American Revolution,Nova Scotia and Quebec became part of the United States.

Thomas Jefferson's declaration that "all men are created equal" did not radically alter society.

Why did apprenticeship and indentured servitude decline after the Revolution?

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

An example of anti-Catholicism during the 1770s was the:

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

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -free labor

The property qualification for voting was hotly debated during the 1770s and 1780s.

During the American Revolutionary War,the buying and selling of slaves was temporarily halted.

Freedom and an individual's right to vote had become interchangeable by the war's end.

MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Joseph Brant

Why did John Adams believe that land ownership was vital to society?

In Canada,the Loyalist exiles were viewed as national founding fathers.

"Freedom" had not played a major part in Indians' vocabulary before the Revolution,but after the war,freedom meant defending their own independence and retaining possession of their land.

In regard to Loyalists during the American Revolution:

In his Thoughts on Government (1776),John Adams advocated state constitutions that provided for:

Adam Smith's argument that the "invisible hand" of the free market directed economic life more effectively and fairly than governmental intervention offered intellectual justification for those who believed that the economy should be left to regulate itself.

A New World

Beginnings of English America,1607-1660

Creating Anglo-america,1660-1750

Slavery,freedom,and the Struggle for Empire to 1763

The American Revolution,1763-1783

Founding a Nation,1783-1791

Securing the Republic,1790-1815

The Market Revolution,1800-1840

Democracy in America,1815-1840

The Peculiar Institution

An Age of Reform,1820-1840

A House Divided,1840-1861

A New Birth of Freedom: the Civil War,1861-1865

what is Freedom?”: Reconstruction,1865-1877

Filters

Exam 6: the Revolution Within

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

The efforts to emancipate slaves in the 1770s and 1780s:

Despite many slaves being emancipated during and right after the American Revolution,why did the number of slaves increase by 200,000 from 1776 to 1790?

After the American Revolution,Nova Scotia and Quebec became part of the United States.

Thomas Jefferson's declaration that "all men are created equal" did not radically alter society.

Why did apprenticeship and indentured servitude decline after the Revolution?

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

An example of anti-Catholicism during the 1770s was the:

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

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -free labor

The property qualification for voting was hotly debated during the 1770s and 1780s.

During the American Revolutionary War,the buying and selling of slaves was temporarily halted.

Freedom and an individual's right to vote had become interchangeable by the war's end.

MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Joseph Brant

Why did John Adams believe that land ownership was vital to society?

In Canada,the Loyalist exiles were viewed as national founding fathers.

"Freedom" had not played a major part in Indians' vocabulary before the Revolution,but after the war,freedom meant defending their own independence and retaining possession of their land.

In regard to Loyalists during the American Revolution:

In his Thoughts on Government (1776),John Adams advocated state constitutions that provided for:

Adam Smith's argument that the "invisible hand" of the free market directed economic life more effectively and fairly than governmental intervention offered intellectual justification for those who believed that the economy should be left to regulate itself.

A New World

Beginnings of English America,1607-1660

Creating Anglo-america,1660-1750

Slavery,freedom,and the Struggle for Empire to 1763

The American Revolution,1763-1783

Founding a Nation,1783-1791

Securing the Republic,1790-1815

The Market Revolution,1800-1840

Democracy in America,1815-1840

The Peculiar Institution

An Age of Reform,1820-1840

A House Divided,1840-1861

A New Birth of Freedom: the Civil War,1861-1865

what is Freedom?”: Reconstruction,1865-1877

Filters