US HISTORY CHAP 6 – Flashcards
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Thomas Jefferson
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i. drafted Virginia's "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom"
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Adam Smith
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k. The Wealth of Nations author
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Samuel Sewall
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g. The Selling of Joseph author
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Benjamin Rush
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b. Pennsylvania radical
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Phillis Wheatley
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a. black poet
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Abigail Adams
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j. "Remember the ladies"
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James Otis
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h. wrote of universal freedom, even for blacks
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John Adams
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c. Thoughts on Government author
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John Sullivan
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d. burned forty Indian towns
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Robert Morris
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f. director of congressional fiscal policy
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Joseph Brant
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l. Mohawk Indian
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James Carroll
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e. America's first Roman Catholic bishop
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virtue
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k. ability to sacrifice self-interest for the public good
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freedom petitions
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j. action slaves took for their immediate release
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Loyalists
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e. retained their allegiance to the crown
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Ladies' Association
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a. raised funds to assist American soldiers
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republican motherhood
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h. responsible for raising the next generation of leaders
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suffrage
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j. action slaves took for their immediate release
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free labor
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b. working for wages, or owning a farm or shop
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patriots
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f. fighting for the American cause
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militia
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d. "School of political democracy"
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Moravian Brethren
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g. Revolution undermined church authority among this group
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Sierra Leone
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l. settlement in Africa for freed slaves
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Popery
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c. an offensive term for the rituals of the Catholic Church
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1. As a result of the American Revolution, Americans rejected:
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b. the principle of hereditary aristocracy.
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2. How did the Revolutionary War change the meaning of freedom?
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b. It challenged the inequality that had been fundamental to the colonial social order.
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3. What served as a sort of "school of political democracy" for the members of the "lower orders" in the colonies-turned-states?
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d. the militia
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The preamble
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
