Essay on chapter 6 – Flashcards
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Who wrote that he hoped to erect a "wall of separation" between church and state?
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Jefferson
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For most free Americans in the new republic, equality meant
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equal opportunity rather than equality of condition.
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The first antislavery tract in America was
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The Selling of Joseph.
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Which Indian tribe sided with the Americans against the British in the War for Independence?
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Oneida
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Which of the following was not an effect of the struggle for independence on economic thought and policy in America?
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The estates of wealthy landowners were appropriated by Congress and redistributed among the rural poor.
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Which of the following defines republican motherhood?
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training sons to be future citizens
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Which of the following was not an effect of the struggle for independence on religion in America?
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a marked decline in the influence of religion in American society
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In the early 1770s, "freedom petitions" were
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slave petitions urging slavery's end, presented to New England courts and legislatures.
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Which of the following was not an effect of the struggle for independence on political life in America?
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Patriots of all stripes united around the principle of universal suffrage, regardless of economic status.
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Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776) argued
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that the "invisible hand" of the free market was more effective and fair than government intervention in the economy.
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Who, out of the following, dressed in men's clothes to fight in the American Revolution?
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Deborah Sampson
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How many slaves fled to British lines during the American Revolution?
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almost 100,000
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Who developed the state constitution that gave the governor an effective veto over laws passed by the legislature, included a two-chamber legislature and powerful judiciary, and was subsequently an important model for the U.S. Constitution?
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John Adams
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In 1776, the slave population of the United States was
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20 percent.
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Which of the following was not a course adopted by African-Americans to advance the cause of emancipation during the revolutionary era?
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assassination of pro-slavery public figures
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The daughter of a Massachusetts farmer who disguised herself as a man and fought in the Continental Army during the American Revolution was
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Deborah Sampson.
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What percentage of non-slave Americans remained loyal to the British during the American Revolution?
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20 to 25 percent
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Thomas Jefferson helped pass laws in the state of Virginia that abolished primogeniture. Define "primogeniture."
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passing of all of a family's land to the oldest son
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Three months after independence was declared in 1776, which state adopted a new state constitution with only a one-house legislature?
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Pennsylvania
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Phillis Wheatley is celebrated in American history as
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a published poet and slave.
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"Throughout the new nation, states disestablished their established churches." Define "disestablished."
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to remove public funding for
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The first time in recorded human history that slavery was eradicated by legislative power of government was
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in the United States when, between 1777 and 1804, every state north of Maryland took steps toward emancipation.
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Which was not the case for Indians following the War for Independence?
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Indians were incorporated as citizens within the new republic.
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Members of which of the following groups were not subject to arrest by the Pennsylvania government because of refusal to participate in the American Revolution?
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Mormons
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Which of the following was not an effect of the struggle for independence on the relative status of men and women in America?
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the elimination of legal inequality between husband and wife
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The decline of indentured servitude and apprenticeship had many causes. Which of the following was not one of these causes?
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increased use of African slaves
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The foremost center of political radicalism during the revolutionary era was
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Pennsylvania.
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Which of the following was not an effect of the struggle for independence on the issue of slavery in America?
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Ironically, the arrival of independence was accompanied by an expansion of slavery throughout the United States.
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What famous American woman wrote to her husband that the Second Continental Congress should "remember the ladies" when they drew up a "Code of Laws"?
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Abigail Adams
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Evangelical Christians supported the separation of church and state following the American Revolution because they wanted to protect religion from the corrupting embrace of government.
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TR
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Committed to freedom of conscience and thought, most patriots adopted a live-and-let-live attitude toward the Loyalists during the Revolutionary War.
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FA
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Except in Vermont, property ownership was not a requirement for voting in the early Republic.
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FA
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Many women who entered public debate felt the need to apologize for their forthrightness.
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TR
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The Declaration of Independence elevated the principle of equality to a central place in the American conception of freedom.
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TR
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Deists and members of evangelical sects worked together to separate church and state.
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TR
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James Otis argued that black colonists were entitled to the same civil rights as any British subject.
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TR
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The years following independence saw the emergence of free black communities, especially in the northern states.
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TR
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Some Americans employed the revolutionary language of equality on behalf of women's rights.
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TR
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Confiscated property of Loyalists was returned to them following the Treaty of Paris.
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FA
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Advertisements for runaway slaves were rare in the early republic.
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FA
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At the end of war, as many as 100,000 Loyalists were banished from the United States or emigrated voluntarily.
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TR
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Militias did much to promote the expansion of political democracy in revolutionary America.
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TR
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Indentured servitude went into rapid decline following national independence.
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TR
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Because of religious freedom an astonishing number of new religious denominations proliferated in the early republic; today more than 1,300 religions are practiced in the United States.
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