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Revolutionary War Figures and Events
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Revolutionary War Figures and Events
Revolutionary War Figures and Events
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1. Authored The American Crisis, a pamphlet et that tried to rally patriots at a particularly bleak period during the War for Independence; claimed "these are the times that try men's souls."
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D) Thomas Paine
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2. Chief artillery officer during the Revolution, served as the first Secretary of the War Department.
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AB) Henry Knox
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3. American statesman and political theorist who authored many of the Federalist Papers, the Bill of Rights, and is referred to as "the father of the Constitution."
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BC) John Adams
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4. British general who commanded the forces tasked with moving From Canada down into the Hudson River Valley; was defeated by American forces at Saratoga.
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AD) John Burgoyne
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5. Put forward a plan that was favored by small states at the Constitutional Convention; from New Jersey.
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C) William Paterson
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6. This significant American victory, in a battle that took place at the end of 1776, came at a particularl dark and desperate period for American hopes in the war:
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b) Trenton
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7. The American victory in this battle proved to be the "turning point" in the war after the United State was able to negotiate an alliance with the French:
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c) Saratoga
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8. Which of the following characterized the Northern Strategy of the British in the American Revolutionary war?
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c) isolate New England by controlling the Hudson River corridor from NYC to Canada
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9. Which of the following MOST accurately depicts Washington's achievement during the war?
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b) beloved by his loyal troops, Washington's leadership kept his chronically undersupplied a together under the most trying circumstances, extended the war longer than anyone anticipated
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Why was the Treaty of Paris of 1783 not negotiated until two years after the decisive battle of the war?
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The alliance between the French and the Americans stipulated that the two countries could not sign separate peace agreements.
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Which of the following was NOT a foreign relations power held by the Articles of Confederation?
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Raise tariffs on trade.
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What did the 1780s ordinances, which included the Northwest Ordinance, do?
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Established a grid system for surveying and selling land; promoted public education and prohibited slavery; and put into effect the way in which the territories would be settled and become states.
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Who benefited the MOST from the plan put forth by the Land Ordinances?
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Wealthy speculators, who profited from a system that prevented most Americans from purchasing western lands at auction.
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The Articles of Confederation gave more power to the:
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State governments.
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Which of the following BEST describes the makeup of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention:
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Elite planters, merchants, and lawyers who were among the most affluent men of their respective states.
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What were the Federalist Papers?
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A series of essays that appeared in newspapers to promote the ratification of the Constitution.
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What constitutional interpretation did critics who challenged the establishment of a National Bank maintain?
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A strict interpretation of the Constitution: if it's not delegated in the document, the national government does not have the power to carry it out.
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Which of the following was MOST approved by the Republican supporters: the plan to have Congress establish the Society for Useful Manufactures, Jay's Treaty, the placement of the capital along the Potomac River, or tax on whiskey?
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The plan to have Congress establish the Society for Useful Manufactures.
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True or False: The British had little difficulty controlling the major ports along the coast during the Revolutionary War but ran into difficulty when their supply lines were extended into the backcountry, particularly in upstate New York.
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False. The British had little difficulty controlling the major ports along the coast during the Revolutionary War but ran into difficulty when their supply lines were extended into the backcountry, particularly in upstate New York.
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True or False: Some of the worst atrocities committed during the American War for Independence occurred in the Southern colonies, where the fighting was often as much a civil war between colonists as it was of patriots against British regulars.
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False. Some of the worst atrocities committed during the American War for Independence occurred in the Southern colonies, where the fighting was often as much a civil war between colonists as it was of patriots against British regulars.
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True or False: The freedom of speech and press are enumerated powers were not found in the Constitution as it was adopted by the Constitutional Convention in 1787. They were added by amendment to the Constitution a few years after it was ratified.
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True. The freedom of speech and press are enumerated powers were not found in the Constitution as it was adopted by the Constitutional Convention in 1787. They were added by amendment to the Constitution a few years after it was ratified.
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True or False: Shays's Rebellion was an armed protest of farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania who were angry with the federal government's tax on whiskey.
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False. Shays's Rebellion was an armed protest of farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania who were angry with the federal government's tax on whiskey.
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Were the first Navigation Acts and British wars of the mid- to late-seventeenth century efforts to challenge the supremacy of Dutch traders in the Atlantic world?
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True
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What does 'salutary neglect' refer to?
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The ways in which the colonists became accustomed to governing themselves without direct oversight from the British crown during the first half of the 1700s.
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The production of homespun in the 1760s is evidence of what?
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A way women participated in the Patriot deployment of nonimportation as a form of protest.
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Were Africans (diverse as they were) the single largest group of migrants to British North America across the first three quarters of the eighteenth century?
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True, although it was forced.
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Which of the following were formed in the early 1770s to allow Patriots to communicate both within and between the colonies?
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Committees of Correspondence
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Which of the following is NOT one of the so-called Coercive (or Intolerable) Acts?
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British creditors could demand immediate payment of debts owed or colonials faced confiscation of property.
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Which of the following BEST summarizes the image of 'The Bloody Massacre'?
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The image is Patriot propaganda to show the British in the most negative light.
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Which two churches were the fastest growing in the mid-1700s in British North America?
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Baptist and Presbyterian