Deck 6: A People in Revolution

Question 1

Loyalist emigrants established successful lives in all the following places EXCEPT

A) land west of the Appalachians.
B) Canadian Maritime Provinces.
C) England.
D) British West Indies.

Answer 1

land west of the Appalachians.

Question 2

Many American black slaves sought their freedom during the Revolution by

A) attempting to take lands from western Indians.
B) seeking return passage to Africa.
C) fighting with the British.
D) fleeing to the maritime provinces of Canada.

Answer 2

fighting with the British.

Question 3

After the war, the generation of Americans who fought the Revolutionary War

A) preferred European to American newspapers.
B) became passionately absorbed by political debates.
C) focused on private rather than public affairs.
D) rejected religious notions of the nation's destiny.

Answer 3

became passionately absorbed by political debates.

Question 4

The American Revolution lasted for seven years, longer than any other of America's wars until Vietnam nearly 200 years later.

Question 5

Native Americans who fought for American independence gained great benefits from their efforts.

Question 6

France entered the American Revolutionary War on the American side in 1778.

Question 7

In the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the United States agreed to a western boundary at the Mississippi River.

Question 8

At the height of the war, France fielded an army of 10,000 troops in North America.

Question 9

Approximately 250,000 men fought for the American side during the Revolution.

Question 10

Very few American soldiers were immigrants.

Question 11

Swarms of camp followers surrounded Washington's army and proved to always be of vital assistance.

Question 12

Approximately 2,500 American troops died in the Revolutionary War.

Question 13

About half of New York City's population fled when the British occupied the city.

Question 14

The first plan for a permanent union of the states, sharply limiting what the Congress could do and reserving broad governing powers to the individual states, was the ________.

Question 15

At the urging of Joseph Brant in the summer of 1777, most of the ________ abandoned neutrality and joined the struggle against the Americans.

Question 16

Between 1780 and 1782, Russia, the Netherlands, and six other European countries joined in a ________ aimed at protecting their maritime trade against British efforts to control it.

Question 17

The American traitor ________ laid waste to Virginia's James River Valley.

Question 18

A(n) ________ virus killed an estimated 130,000 people in North America in the 1770s and 1780s.

Question 19

Loyalist numbers were fewest in ________, and concentrated around New York City.

Question 20

The South's nearly 400,000 ________ were viewed by the British as a resource to be exploited during the war.

Question 21

The American Revolution gave rise to the idea of separating _________ and state.

Question 22

In 1786, Congress adopted ________Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom.

Question 23

By 1790, every state except Georgia and __________had outlawed the international slave trade.

Question 24

In 1780, the ___________state legislature passed a law to free all newborn slaves when they reached the age of 21.

Question 25

The Confederation Congress passed two ____________ordinances in the 1780s.

Question 26

The supporters of a ____________national government called themselves Federalists.

Question 27

James Madison's idea for a new national government was known as the _________Plan.

Question 28

By 1800 in the Chesapeake, more than one in every _________blacks was free.

Question 29

William Patterson's idea for a new national government was known as the _________Plan.

Question 30

The agreement between big and small states is known as the ___________ by historians.