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During the 1780s,what would an American say was the best option for Native Americans in the United States?


A) To become farmers.
B) To fight.
C) To work with American settlers.
D) to leave the United States.
E) To ask for help from the British.

F) C) and E)
G) A) and D)

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Ladies' Association


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

M) H) and J)
N) B) and E)

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In their Revolutionary-era constitutions,all states adopted John Adams's idea of a "balanced" government.

A) True
B) False

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In regard to rights for women,Abigail Adams:


A) insisted that women accept their lower status in society.
B) feared that women would be distracted from doing domestic chores if they read books.
C) wanted women to be eligible to be president.
D) believed laws should not ignore women.
E) thought women should be tyrannical in demanding more rights.

F) B) and C)
G) None of the above

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For which three accomplishments did Thomas Jefferson wish to be remembered?


A) Presidency, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution.
B) Louisiana Purchase, presidency, the Declaration of Independence.
C) The Constitution, the University of Virginia, presidency.
D) The "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom," the Declaration of Independence, Louisiana Purchase.
E) The Declaration of Independence, the University of Virginia, the "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom."

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -suffrage


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

M) B) and F)
N) C) and F)

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

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Which settlement in Africa did the British establish for former slaves from the United States?


A) Liberia.
B) Sierra Leone.
C) Monrovia.
D) Ghana.
E) Benin.

F) A) and B)
G) C) and E)

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The War of Independence weakened the deep tradition of American anti-Catholicism.

A) True
B) False

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


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.

F) B) and E)
G) A) and C)

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Abigail Adams did not see equality for women as the same as people do in today's modern world.

A) True
B) False

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When Dr.Samuel Johnson,the British writer,asked how it was "that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty from the drivers of negroes," he was pointing to a key irony of the American independence movement.What arguments did supporters of American independence use to justify retaining the institution of slavery? Did any of their contemporaries in America counter their arguments? How?

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Sierra Leone


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

M) A) and E)
N) E) and H)

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General John Sullivan:


A) led pro-American Cherokee troops in campaigns against Lord Cornwallis in North Carolina.
B) surrendered his forces to the Stockbridge Indians in a humiliating defeat.
C) destroyed forty Indian towns in a campaign against the Iroquois.
D) encouraged American forces to treat Indians and their lands "truly well and gently."
E) was a British spy whom pro-American Creek Indians unmasked.

F) B) and C)
G) A) and B)

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How did the Revolutionary War change the meaning of freedom?


A) It meant that all men now had a legal claim to an equal distribution of property.
B) It challenged the inequality that had been fundamental to the colonial social order.
C) It ended colonial society's legally established hereditary aristocracy.
D) It ended coverture, under which husbands exercised full legal authority over their wives.
E) It meant that, for the first time, men were free to pursue whatever occupations they wished.

F) B) and E)
G) None of the above

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Who might be considered an ideal woman in late-eighteenth-century America?


A) An educated single woman.
B) An educated mother.
C) A farmer's widow.
D) A seamstress.
E) A shopkeeper.

F) C) and D)
G) D) and E)

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

A) True
B) False

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If Thomas Jefferson lived in the seventeenth century,what would he have feared most?


A) Scientific discoveries that helped lead to the Enlightenment.
B) Wars and corruption caused by organized religion.
C) Native American techniques with farming.
D) Parliament gaining more rights after the Glorious Revolution.
E) John Locke's ideas on liberalism.

F) C) and D)
G) C) and E)

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Abigail Adams


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

M) D) and F)
N) J) and K)

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Approximately how many free Americans remained loyal to the British during the war?


A) 5 to 10 percent.
B) 10 to 15 percent.
C) 20 to 25 percent.
D) 30 to 35 percent.
E) 45 to 50 percent.

F) C) and E)
G) A) and C)

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