Exam 6: The Revolution Within

A) They all allied themselves with the British, who promised to protect them against American encroachment.
B) They all allied themselves with the Americans, since the British had failed to protect them against American encroachment.
C) Most tribes officially maintained neutrality but secretly aided one side or the other.
D) They divided in allegiance, just as white Americans did.
E) They volunteered to fight in the Continental army, but George Washington rejected them.

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A) voting
B) tolerance
C) slavery
D) equality
E) suffrage

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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"

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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.

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A) Anti-Catholicism increased when Quebec Catholics volunteered in large numbers for the British army.
B) Because Americans resented Catholic France negotiating a separate peace with Great Britain, anti-Catholicism became more prevalent.
C) Independence led the states to impose anti-Catholic laws that they had been unable to adopt when they were under British control.
D) The alliance with France, a predominantly Catholic country, helped diminish American anti-Catholicism.
E) Spain's wartime aid to Britain led Georgian colonists to attack Catholic missions in Florida.

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A) The U.S. government generally left them alone because it was busy trying to restore order after the war.
B) The U.S. government tried to protect them from encroachment by backcountry farmers, as required by the Treaty of Paris.
C) The U.S. government set out to dispossess the Native Americans of their remaining rich lands and drive them westward.
D) The U.S. government pursued a policy of outright extermination.
E) The U.S. government recognized Indian claims to their traditional lands from the Appalachians to the Mississippi River.

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A) gradual emancipation laws
B) republican motherhood
C) royal authority
D) pro-British loyalties
E) the free market

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A) women should be granted suffrage rights.
B) women played an indispensable role in the new nation by training future citizens.
C) Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party represented maternal interests better than its opponents did.
D) education was wasted on women, who should only worry about having many children to populate the republic.
E) political equality of the sexes fit a republican society.

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A) a poet who wrote about how African-Americans felt about freedom
B) a fund-raiser for the Ladies' Association, whose efforts fed nearly starving men at Valley Forge
C) a pamphleteer whose ringing protests reminded Bostonians that women, too, cared about liberty
D) a woman who, disguised as a man, died while fighting during the Yorktown campaign
E) a slave who helped dozens of other slaves escape to freedom behind British lines

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A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Joseph Brant
C) Lord Dunmore
D) George Washington
E) Benjamin Rush

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A) asked for the Declaration of Independence to be read every month at the town square.
B) proposed free public education.
C) wanted church attendance to be mandatory.
D) proposed that ministers become teachers in public schools.
E) wanted a second revolution.

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A) the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
B) Isaac Newton's explanation of the law of gravity as applied to economics
C) the failure of wartime tariffs to solve the problem of the national debt
D) riots over inflation in the streets of Boston
E) memories of the despised Intolerable Acts

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A) the Protestant Church
B) the lower house of the state legislatures
C) the taverns
D) the militia
E) the first public schools

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A) obedience to the male heads of household.
B) the principle of hereditary aristocracy.
C) the establishment of a republic.
D) the definition of liberty as a universal entitlement.
E) all kinds of organized religion.

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