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MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Thomas Jefferson


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) G) and K)
N) A) and H)

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MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -John 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) B) and I)
N) A) and H)

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The British Navigation Acts contradicted the ideas:


A) of Abigail Adams in her letter to her husband about women's rights.
B) in Wealth of Nations.
C) in Circle of the Social and Benevolent Affections.
D) of the freedom petitions by slaves.
E) Thomas Jefferson's "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom."

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

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

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What situation would have most likely led a person to maintain his or her loyalty to the British crown during the American Revolution?


A) A coastal South Carolina planter getting angry because of a Regulator's call for more representation in the colonial government.
B) The news that John Wilkes lost his seat in Parliament.
C) A Massachusetts merchant losing business because of the British East India monopoly on tea.
D) An Anglican minister in New York wanting to expand his congregation.
E) A Virginia landowner wanting to increase his holdings west of the Appalachian Mountains.

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

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In a famous speech to Parliament,the British statesman Edmund Burke said what regarding a link between slavery and liberty for American colonists?


A) He argued that the colonists were sensitive to threats to their liberties because they were so familiar with slavery.
B) He said the colonists were hypocrites for claiming to be pro-liberty while they themselves owned slaves.
C) He said John Locke's ideas about property rights meant colonists were justified in claiming that their liberty included slave ownership rights.
D) He praised liberty-loving Pennsylvanians for organizing the world's first antislavery society.
E) He stated that a threat to liberty anywhere is a threat to liberty everywhere,so American slavery threatened British freedom.

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

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


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 J)
N) A) and J)

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Joseph Brant,a young Mohawk:


A) wanted to create an Indian confederacy between Canada and the United States.
B) allied with the Continental Congress and led troops against the British in the Great Lakes region.
C) represented Indian interests at the negotiations of the Treaty of Paris.
D) urged all Indians to move west of the Mississippi River to preserve their cultures from "contamination" by whites.
E) was appointed first governor-general of Upper Canada in 1781.

F) B) and D)
G) A) and D)

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Part of the philosophy of the Revolution was embracing the principle of hereditary aristocracy.

A) True
B) False

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Not everyone supported the independence movement within the colonies.Explain who supported independence and who did not.Be sure to include a discussion about how socioeconomic standing,race,religion,and gender affected an individual's support for or opposition to independence.Also consider why the other regions of the British Empire,such as Canada,the Caribbean islands,and Florida,did not also rebel and seek independence.

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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) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

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

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For those Loyalists who remained in the United States after the war,hostility toward them proved to be long and intense.

A) True
B) False

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Until New Jersey added the word "male" to its constitutional definition of a voter in 1807,some of the state's women enjoyed suffrage rights.

A) True
B) False

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

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Which of the following is true of how the new state constitutions in the Revolutionary era dealt with the issue of religious liberty?


A) Several states finally allowed Jews to vote and to hold public office.
B) States increased public funding of religion because they no longer had to win British approval to do so.
C) Seven state constitutions began with a declaration of rights that included a commitment to "the free exercise of religion."
D) Thomas Jefferson wrote a "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom" in Virginia,but the House of Burgesses never adopted it.
E) Deists and evangelicals fought with one another over whether church and state should be separate.

F) B) and C)
G) All of the above

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Thomas Jefferson's views on religion and Christian doctrines:


A) were very similar to those expressed by Isaac Backus,a Baptist leader.
B) show that he actively sought to stamp out religious worship.
C) indicate he did not believe in a benevolent Creator.
D) demonstrated his rejection of the divinity of Jesus.
E) found widespread acceptance among evangelicals in the new nation.

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

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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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True

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

A) True
B) False

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In the United States today,which would best resemble an eighteenth-century companionate marriage?


A) An arranged marriage between immigrants.
B) A husband who is the primary breadwinner and has all of the assets in his name.
C) A spouse who makes all the decisions concerning the children's education.
D) An abusive,alcoholic husband who dominates his wife.
E) A union based on love with equal say in running the household.

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

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E

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