question

"Give me liberty, or give me death!" was uttered by Samuel Adams at the first Continental Congress.

answer

False

question

A major blow to the relationship between the British and colonists occurred when Lord Dunmore proclaimed that

answer

escaped slaves who took up arms for the king would be freed.

question

According to the doctrine of "virtual representation," the House of Commons represented very few residents of the British empire, despite their voting statuses.

answer

False

question

Adding to Congress's formal declaration, the Declaration of Independence

answer

declared the United States independent of British rule.

question

An early skirmish between the colonists and British soldiers arose over the seizure of arms stockpiled in Concord.

answer

True

question

As Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense, became one of the most successful and influential in the history of political writing to that date, Paine wanted a share of the profits to be used for

answer

supplies for the Continental army.

question

As tensions between Britain and the colonies mounted, social conflict within the colonies faded.

answer

False

question

At Trenton, Washington staged a surprise attack on Hessian soldiers in the service of the British

answer

True

question

At the beginning of the war, George Washington refused to accept black recruits.

answer

True

question

Before leaving Boston, the British, under the command of Lord Charles Cornwallis, cut down the original Liberty Tree.

answer

False

question

Both colonists and some in Britain decried the treatment of John Wilkes because he

answer

was expelled from Parliament due to his scandalous remarks about the king.

question

British success in the Seven Years' War contributed to the making of the American Revolution because

answer

the British raised taxes to pay for the debt it incurred during the war.

question

By late 1774, colonial Committees of Safety had begun transferring effective power from established colonial governments (under British control) to grassroots bodies.

answer

True

question

By substituting "pursuit of happiness" for "property," Jefferson's Declaration of Independence significantly broadened the American conception of freedom.

answer

True

question

Committees of Correspondence in the colonies during the 1760s

answer

were a group of colonial elites who exchanged ideas and information about resistance to the Sugar, Currency, and Stamp Acts.

question

During the 1760s, backcountry protesters in the Carolinas were known as

answer

Regulators.

question

During the Seven Years' War, Great Britain treated the colonists as allies, yet only a few years later the colonists were treated as subordinates again.

answer

True

question

Following the Boston Tea Party, Parliament imposed restrictions on Massachusetts that included closing the port of Boston, curtailing town meetings, and allowing soldiers to be lodged in people's houses. These restrictions were called

answer

Coercive or Intolerable Acts.

question

In September 1780, this able American commander turned traitor to the American cause and almost turned West Point over to the British.

answer

Benedict Arnold

question

In Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence, he berated the king regarding the continued inhumanity of the slave trade.

answer

True

question

In his work, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Thomas Jefferson demanded that the British empire be seen as a collection of equal parts held together by loyalty to a constitutional monarch, not a system in which one part ruled over the others.

answer

True

question

In response to the colonists' formation of a Continental army, Britain declared the colonies in a state of rebellion and ordered the closing of all colonial ports.

answer

True

question

In the late 1700s, there was a rumor that the Anglican Church in England planned to send bishops to America, causing colonists to fear that new religious courts might be established.

answer

True

question

In the mid-1700s, this word emerged as the foremost rallying cry for popular discontent in the New World.

answer

liberty

question

On October 17, 1777, the Americans scored an important victory against British forces at

answer

Saratoga.

question

One of the unique aspects of Thomas Paine's writing was that he addressed the educated elite, as they were the men who had voting power.

answer

False

question

Opposition to the Stamp Act developed more slowly than in the case of the Townshend duties.

answer

False

question

Some slaves gained their freedom by serving as soldiers during the Revolution.

answer

True

question

Sons of Liberty (1765) were said to oppose "every limitation of trade and duty on it." In this context, define "duty."

answer

tax

question

The "shot heard 'round the world" began the American War of Independence, and took place in what city?

answer

Concord

question

The 1764 Sugar Act provoked the colonists by increasing the tax on molasses imported into North America.

answer

False

question

The Age of Revolution began in Spanish South America.

answer

False

question

The Carolina "Regulators" of the mid-1760s were

answer

a group of wealthy residents of the backcountry who protested the lack of courts and lack of representation in colonial governance.

question

The Coercive Acts were known as the Abominable Acts in the colonies.

answer

False

question

The First Continental Congress met in

answer

Philadelphia.

question

The Stamp Act had mainly affected residents of colonial ports; the Sugar Act managed to offend virtually every free colonist.

answer

False

question

The Tea Act raised the price of Chinese tea in the colonies.

answer

False

question

The brutal treatment of civilians by British forces under Colonel Banastre Tarleton persuaded many Americans to join the patriot cause.

answer

True

question

The colonial political leader Joseph Galloway predicted that if the colonies were to achieve independence, a war between the northern and southern colonies might later occur.

answer

True

question

The final decisive victory in the War for Independence was

answer

Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown.

question

The first battles of the Revolutionary War were very successful for George Washington.

answer

False

question

The idea that the United States has a special mission to serve as a symbol of freedom, a refuge from tyranny, and a model for the world is called by historians

answer

American exceptionalism.

question

The immediate cause of the rioting at the home of Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson was the Sugar Act.

answer

False

question

The name of the Revolutionary "swamp fox" was

answer

Francis Marion

question

The reason John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence in such large script was because he wanted to make sure King George III could read his signature without the assistance of his glasses.

answer

True

question

The ruler of Great Britain during the time of the American Revolution was

answer

George III.

question

The two southern colonies that did not enroll free blacks and slaves to fight were

answer

South Carolina and Georgia.

question

What did the 1766 Declaratory Act declare?

answer

that Parliament had the power to pass laws for the colonies "in all cases whatever"

question

What did the Sugar Act of 1764 do that so vexed the colonists due to the already existing tax on molasses imported from the French West Indies?

answer

It decreased it

question

What two European powers allied with the Americans in the War for Independence?

answer

France and Spain

question

When colonists insisted that because they were not represented in Parliament they could not be taxed by the British government, the British replied that they were represented by

answer

virtual representation.

question

When, on April 19, 1775, British soldiers marched from Boston to the nearby town of Concord to seize a cache of weapons, forty-nine Americans and seventy-three British soldiers died in skirmishes.

answer

True

question

Which of the "founding fathers" argued that Parliament had no right to authorize the Writs of Assistance to combat smuggling?

answer

James Otis

question

Which of the colonies did not participate in the first Continental Congress?

answer

Georgia

question

Which of the following did the Stamp Act affect?

answer

newspapers

question

Which of the following was not a feature of the Stamp Act crisis of 1765?

answer

The Stamp Act was passed by the Stamp Act Congress as a way to subvert Parliament's power to tax the colonies.

question

Which of the following was not a part of the balance of power between the British and American forces during the Revolution?

answer

The British had correctly surmised the degree of support for independence among the American population.

question

Who engraved the image of the Boston Massacre that became one of the most influential pieces of political propaganda of the Revolutionary Era?

answer

Paul Revere

question

Who was appointed the military commander of the army during the Second Continental Congress?

answer

George Washington

question

Who was considered "the first martyr" of the American Revolution?

answer

Crispus Attucks

question

Who was not a member of the American delegation that negotiated the Treaty of Paris?

answer

Samuel Adams

question

Who won the Revolutionary War?

answer

Americans

AMH 2010 Chapter 5 – Flashcards

Unlock all answers in this set

Haven't found what you were looking for?

Search for samples, answers to your questions and flashcards