Deck 8: America Secedes from the Empire,1775-1783

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Barry St.Leger

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
George Rogers Clark

Answer 2

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Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Benedict Arnold

Answer 3

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Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Richard Montgomery

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Nathanael Greene

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Abigail Adams

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ethan Allen

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Thomas Paine

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John ("Gentleman Johnny")Burgoyne

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Hugh Gaine

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Richard Henry Lee

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Thomas Jefferson

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Lord Charles Cornwallis

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Horatio Gates

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
George Washington

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Howe

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Admiral de Grasse

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
King George III

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Jay

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Paul Jones

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
evacuation of Boston

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Greene´s Carolina campaign

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of Trenton

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Baron von Steuben

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Comte de Rochambeau

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
separate peace

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Iroquois Confederacy

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
privateers

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
natural aristocracy

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of King´s Mountain

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"political education"

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battles of Brandywine Creek and Germantown

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
natural rights

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of Charleston

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Howe

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Benjamin Franklin

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Joseph Brant

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
burning of Falmouth and Norfolk

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of Yorktown

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of Saratoga

Question 41

The Revolutionary War began in 1775-1776 with fighting in ____;then in 1777──1778 the fighting was concentrated in ____;and most of the fighting concluded in ____ in 1779-1781.

A) the South; the middle colonies; New England
B) the middle colonies; New England; the South
C) New England; the South; the middle colonies
D) New England; the middle colonies; the South
E) the middle colonies; the South; New England

Question 42

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Armed Neutrality"

Question 43

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of Bunker Hill

Question 44

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of Long Island

Question 45

What happened at Ticonderoga and Crown Point in May 1775?

A) A tiny force led by Benedict Arnold and George Washington attempted an unsuccessful assault on a larger British garrison.
B) George Washington´s Continental Army stumbled into a British trap and suffered heavy losses.
C) Colonial forces under the "Fighting Quaker" Nathanael Greene finally brought the warfare on the northern frontier to an end with an American victory.
D) A tiny force led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold surprised and captured the British garrisons there, securing much-needed powder and artillery.
E) A Loyalist regiment surprised and defeated Patriot troops, helping to secure the Canadian border for Britain.

Question 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Hessians

Question 47

Which trait was NOT one of George Washington's great strengths as commander of America's Revolutionary army?

A) Moral force
B) Courage
C) A sense of justice
D) Military genius
E) Patience

Question 48

When colonists first took up arms against British military forces in America in 1775,their professed goal was to

A) bring about America´s complete independence from Britain.
B) protest Parliament´s utter neglect of the colonies.
C) force the British authorities to open up trans-Appalachian lands for settlement.
D) force the king and Parliament to address their grievances.
E) draw Britain and France into another global war.

Question 49

Perhaps the most important single action of the Second Continental Congress was to

A) select George Washington to head the army.
B) draft new appeals to the king.
C) adopt new taxes to provide revenue.
D) adopt the Articles of Confederation.
E) organize a committee to recommend independence.

Question 50

What is an inconsistency about the colonists during the first fourteen months of their armed struggle against the British crown and Parliament?

A) They depended heavily on Indian allies yet fought to gain more access to Indian lands.
B) They repeatedly professed their loyalty to the king while raising armies and attacking the king´s soldiers.
C) They pursued alliances with both the French and the Spanish, who were sworn enemies.
D) They focused all their energies on developing a land army when Britain´s power lay primarily in its navy.
E) Their leaders professed to be seeking independence yet repeatedly sought to negotiate in secret with the British government.

Question 51

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battles of Lexington and Concord

Question 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Common Sense

Question 53

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Second Continental Congress

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
invasion of Canada

Question 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Treaty of Paris of 1783

Question 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
New Jersey campaign

Question 57

George Washington's selection to lead the colonial army was

A) based on recognition of his personal character.
B) more for political reasons than for his leadership.
C) based solely on military experience.
D) opposed by New Englanders.
E) done with no misgivings.

Question 58

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Loyalists

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Patriots

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Declaration of Independence

Question 61

Who won the battle for the hearts and minds of the colonists during the Revolutionary War?

A) British soldiers tasked with the special assignment of "political" education
B) Colonial leaders in Philadelphia
C) Loyalist agitators who recruited huge numbers of slaves to serve in the British ranks
D) Newspaper editors like John Peter Zenger
E) Patriot militia

Question 62

On which day was Richard Henry Lee´s resolution for independence proposed to the Philadelphia Congress,and on which day was it adopted?

A) July 7 and July 4, 1776
B) May 10, 1775, and July 4, 1776
C) July 4 and July 10, 1776
D) June 7 and July 2, 1776
E) June 7 and June 2, 1783

Question 63

The colonists' invasion of Canada in 1775

A) almost succeeded.
B) was of little strategic value for the colonists.
C) was eagerly welcomed by French-Canadian leaders.
D) resulted in the capture of both Montreal and Quebec.
E) caused many Americans to question the army's competence.

Question 64

King George III officially declared the colonies in rebellion just after

A) the armed clash at Lexington and Concord.
B) the First Continental Congress convened.
C) the Battle of Bunker Hill.
D) the capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point.
E) the hiring Hessian solders to fight in America.

Question 65

The colonial army eventually lost the Battle of Bunker Hill because its troops

A) were tactically outmaneuvered.
B) ran out of gunpowder.
C) were poorly led.
D) were unable to stop the final British charge.
E) lacked adequate naval and artillery support.

Question 66

Why did the Americans invade Canada in 1775?

A) It was the best strategic move to outflank the British army.
B) The Canadians had appealed for their assistance.
C) Benedict Arnold tricked them into a dead-end venture.
D) A successful attack would deprive Britain of its Indian allies.
E) It would add a fourteenth colony and deprive the British of a valuable base.

Question 67

An important purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to

A) warn other nations to stay out of the Revolution.
B) appeal to the Indians to join the revolutionary cause.
C) assert the superiority of American democracy.
D) explain to the rest of the world why the colonies had revolted.
E) condemn Parliament for its actions.

Question 68

Thomas Paine called not just for independence but for a republic where power

A) is passed down through inherited tradition.
B) is rooted in a belief in God.
C) comes from the people themselves.
D) is equally distributed among three branches of government.
E) belongs only to the educated.

Question 69

What did Americans generally think was the most important ingredient in any successful republican government?

A) Free public education
B) Guarantees of individual property rights
C) The right to vote for all adult white males
D) A written constitution with a bill of rights
E) The virtue of the citizens

Question 70

Why was Thomas Jefferson chosen by the Philadelphia Congress to draft the Declaration of Independence?

A) his knowledge of the law
B) his experience as an outspoken proponent of independence since 1775
C) his status as a representative of Virginia who could balance regional interests
D) his relative unimportance and aversion to controversy
E) his reputation as a brilliant writer

Question 71

The key resolution - "These United Colonies are,and of right ought to be,free and independent states..." - was introduced into the Second Continental Congress by delegate

A) Patrick Henry.
B) Thomas Jefferson.
C) Richard Henry Lee.
D) Thomas Paine.
E) John Adams.

Question 72

What portion of the colonial population actively supported the American Revolution?

A) Nearly all
B) A majority
C) A minority
D) Hardly anyone apart from the leaders
E) All New Englanders

Question 73

Some Patriots were concerned that Thomas Paine´s approach was too radical.What alternative vision of republicanism did they hold?

A) They favored a republic ruled by men and women of property, with non-landowners left out of the electorate.
B) They wanted a republic ruled by a "natural aristocracy" defined by talent rather than birth.
C) They envisioned a republic where religion would strongly guide governance.
D) They considered direct democracy the best way to ensure that elites and the lower classes would share the burdens of governing.
E) They saw taxation even with representation as tyranny and wanted it abolished.

Question 74

Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense

A) was published before any fighting took place between the colonists and the British.
B) focused on the legal case against British taxation.
C) stirred Americans to acknowledge their disloyalty to the British king.
D) called on the British people to overthrow the monarch.
E) led to Paine's arrest.

Question 75

The Declaration of Independence did NOT

A) invoke the natural rights of humankind to justify revolt.
B) provide a long list of allegedly tyrannical actions by King George III.
C) explain the reasons for revolt to "a candid world."
D) blame the British Parliament and public for oppressing Americans.
E) charge the king with inciting Indian hostility.

Question 76

Americans who opposed independence for the colonies were labeled ____ or ____,while the independence-seeking Patriots were also known as ____.

A) Tories; Whigs; Loyalists
B) Loyalists; Tories; Whigs
C) Whigs; Tories; Loyalists
D) Loyalists; Whigs; Tories
E) Sons of Liberty; Tories; Whigs

Question 77

The colonies had been fighting with the British for a full fourteen months before declaring independence.What was NOT one of the reasons?

A) Continued belief that America was part of the transatlantic British community
B) Support for the tradition of loyalty to the empire
C) The realization that the colonies were not united
D) Fear of harsh British reprisals against rebels
E) Desire to trade with the British colony of India

Question 78

More conservative Americans worried that a democratic republic would produce

A) constant revolutions.
B) atheistic doctrines and an attack on the churches.
C) too much equality and a lack of social order.
D) a potential military dictatorship.
E) an inadequate guarantee of individual rights.

Question 79

Several factors prepared Americans to favor a republican form of government.What was NOT one of them?

A) The experience in self-government provided by New England´s democratic town meetings
B) The example of republican government provided by the Committees of Correspondence
C) The absence of a hereditary aristocracy
D) The relative equality of landowning farmers
E) The broadly shared experience of militia service

Question 80

After the Battle of Bunker Hill,the French foreign minister remarked that if the British had two more such victories,

A) France could easily retake Canada.
B) the war would be won by Britain.
C) Britain would have no army left in America.
D) Parliament would be bankrupt.
E) Britain´s army would be just as envied as its navy.