Question 1

To deal with a wartime economic crisis in 1779, Congress urged states to:

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A)  allow the free market to operate without regulation. 
B)  adopt measures to fix wages and prices. 
C)  establish food banks to distribute food to the needy. 
D)  raise taxes on the wealthy. 
A)  allow the free market to operate without regulation. 
B)  adopt measures to fix wages and prices. 
C)  establish food banks to distribute food to the needy. 
D)  raise taxes on the wealthy.

Question 2

The notion that women should receive a formal education is most consistent with

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A)  the democratic ideas of the revolutionary era that encouraged individualism. 
B)  practical economic concerns of families in the new republic requiring two earners. 
C)  the disruptions of the war for independence that displaced women from their jobs. 
D)  an increasing appreciation for the humanities in the life of the republic. 
A)  the democratic ideas of the revolutionary era that encouraged individualism. 
B)  practical economic concerns of families in the new republic requiring two earners. 
C)  the disruptions of the war for independence that displaced women from their jobs. 
D)  an increasing appreciation for the humanities in the life of the republic.

Question 3

An example of anti-Catholicism during the 1770s was the:

Accepted Answer

A)  barring of Catholics from southern state militias. 
B)  Second Continental Congress's refusal to accept aid from Catholic France. 
C)  First Continental Congress's denunciation of the Quebec Act. 
D)  famous attack on a Boston convent by Massachusetts minutemen. 
A)  barring of Catholics from southern state militias. 
B)  Second Continental Congress's refusal to accept aid from Catholic France. 
C)  First Continental Congress's denunciation of the Quebec Act. 
D)  famous attack on a Boston convent by Massachusetts minutemen.

Question 4

If Thomas Jefferson lived in the seventeenth century, what would he have feared most?

Accepted Answer

A)  Scientific discoveries that helped lead to the Enlightenment. 
B)  Wars and corruption caused by organized religion. 
C)  Native American techniques with farming. 
D)  Parliament gaining more rights after the Glorious Revolution. 
A)  Scientific discoveries that helped lead to the Enlightenment. 
B)  Wars and corruption caused by organized religion. 
C)  Native American techniques with farming. 
D)  Parliament gaining more rights after the Glorious Revolution.

Question 5

Why did apprenticeship and indentured servitude decline after the Revolution?

Accepted Answer

A)  King George III had supported them, and anything associated with the king was unpopular in the United States. 
B)  Many apprentices and indentures had refused to fight in the Revolution, and their bosses, resenting them for it, got rid of them. 
C)  Thomas Paine's criticism of them in Common Sense greatly influenced the many who had read his pamphlet. 
D)  The lack of freedom inherent in apprenticeship and indentured servitude struck growing numbers of Americans as incompatible with republican citizenship. 
A)  King George III had supported them, and anything associated with the king was unpopular in the United States. 
B)  Many apprentices and indentures had refused to fight in the Revolution, and their bosses, resenting them for it, got rid of them. 
C)  Thomas Paine's criticism of them in Common Sense greatly influenced the many who had read his pamphlet. 
D)  The lack of freedom inherent in apprenticeship and indentured servitude struck growing numbers of Americans as incompatible with republican citizenship.

Question 6

Thoughts Upon Female Education (1787)
Benjamin Rush
There are several circumstances in the situation, employments, and duties of women in America which require a peculiar mode of education.
I. The early marriages of our women . . . renders it necessary to contract its plan and to confine it chiefly to the more useful branches of literature.
II. The state of property in America renders it necessary for the greatest part of our citizens to employ themselves in different occupations for the advancement of their fortunes. This cannot be done without the assistance of the female members of the community. They must be the stewards and guardians of their husbands' property. That education, therefore, will be most proper for our women which teaches them to discharge the duties of those offices with the most success and reputation.
III. From the numerous avocations to which a professional life exposes gentlemen in America from their families, a principal share of the instruction of children naturally devolves upon the women. It becomes us therefore to prepare them, by a suitable education, for the discharge of this most important duty of mothers.
IV. The equal share that every citizen has in the liberty and the possible share he may have in the government of our country make it necessary that our ladies should be qualified to a certain degree . . . suitable education, to concur in instructing their sons in the principles of liberty and government.
-Benjamin Rush's ideas about the education of women best exemplify the intellectual influences of

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A)  Deism. 
B)  the French Revolution. 
C)  the Enlightenment. 
D)  the First Great Awakening. 
A)  Deism. 
B)  the French Revolution. 
C)  the Enlightenment. 
D)  the First Great Awakening.

Question 7

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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A)  The Protestant Church. 
B)  The lower house of the state legislatures. 
C)  The taverns. 
D)  The militia. 
A)  The Protestant Church. 
B)  The lower house of the state legislatures. 
C)  The taverns. 
D)  The militia.

Question 8

In regard to Loyalists during the American Revolution:

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A)  State governments encouraged free press, including opposition to American independence. 
B)  Freedom of expression was curbed during the American Revolution. 
C)  Congress discouraged the idea of oaths of allegiance. 
D)  Loyalists were sold into slavery in Canada. 
A)  State governments encouraged free press, including opposition to American independence. 
B)  Freedom of expression was curbed during the American Revolution. 
C)  Congress discouraged the idea of oaths of allegiance. 
D)  Loyalists were sold into slavery in Canada.

Question 9

How did Pennsylvania display the Revolutionary War's radical potential?

Accepted Answer

A)  Benjamin Franklin's departure for France left control of the state up for grabs, and the lower classes took over. 
B)  The prewar elite had supported independence, then tried to negotiate with Great Britain, costing themselves the respect of the lower classes, who took power from them. 
C)  Philadelphia's artisan and lower-class communities took control and put a new emphasis on freedom and on more democratic politics. 
D)  The Second Continental Congress had to take over the state when the people voted to abolish the position of governor, thereby showing how the new nation's power dynamic would differ greatly from the old system. 
A)  Benjamin Franklin's departure for France left control of the state up for grabs, and the lower classes took over. 
B)  The prewar elite had supported independence, then tried to negotiate with Great Britain, costing themselves the respect of the lower classes, who took power from them. 
C)  Philadelphia's artisan and lower-class communities took control and put a new emphasis on freedom and on more democratic politics. 
D)  The Second Continental Congress had to take over the state when the people voted to abolish the position of governor, thereby showing how the new nation's power dynamic would differ greatly from the old system.

Question 10

What was the most significant reason why Thomas Jefferson wanted public education and the creation of the University of Virginia?

Accepted Answer

A)  It would help religion flourish in America and increase toleration. 
B)  Education would spark technological development. 
C)  The size of the merchant class would increase. 
D)  It would raise up the general populace, making the people more informed voters. 
A)  It would help religion flourish in America and increase toleration. 
B)  Education would spark technological development. 
C)  The size of the merchant class would increase. 
D)  It would raise up the general populace, making the people more informed voters.

Question 11

"Republican motherhood" was an ideology that held that:

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A)  women should be granted suffrage rights. 
B)  women played an indispensable role in the new nation by training future citizens. 
C)  Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party represented maternal interests better than its opponents did. 
D)  education was wasted on women, who should worry only about having many children to populate the republic. 
A)  women should be granted suffrage rights. 
B)  women played an indispensable role in the new nation by training future citizens. 
C)  Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party represented maternal interests better than its opponents did. 
D)  education was wasted on women, who should worry only about having many children to populate the republic.

Question 12

How did John Locke influence slave holders?

Accepted Answer

A)  He promoted the concept that protecting property was a natural right. 
B)  He discussed a gradual abolition of slavery. 
C)  He condemned the slave trade as an evil practice. 
D)  He wanted to convert all slaves to Christianity. 
A)  He promoted the concept that protecting property was a natural right. 
B)  He discussed a gradual abolition of slavery. 
C)  He condemned the slave trade as an evil practice. 
D)  He wanted to convert all slaves to Christianity.

Question 13

What role did Native Americans play in the Revolutionary War?

Accepted Answer

A)  They all allied themselves with the British, who promised to protect them against American encroachment. 
B)  They all allied themselves with the Americans, since the British had failed to protect them against American encroachment. 
C)  Most tribes officially maintained neutrality but secretly aided one side or the other. 
D)  They divided their allegiance, just as white Americans did. 
A)  They all allied themselves with the British, who promised to protect them against American encroachment. 
B)  They all allied themselves with the Americans, since the British had failed to protect them against American encroachment. 
C)  Most tribes officially maintained neutrality but secretly aided one side or the other. 
D)  They divided their allegiance, just as white Americans did.

Question 14

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams (1776)
I wish you would write me a letter half as long as I write you, and tell me if you may where your fleet have gone? What sort of defense Virginia can make against our common enemy? Whether it is so situated as to make an able defense? . . . I have sometimes been ready to think that the passion for Liberty cannot be equally strong in the breasts of those who have been accustomed to deprive their fellow creatures of theirs. Of this I am certain, that it is not founded upon that generous and Christian principle of doing to others as we would that others should do unto us . . .
I long to hear that you have declared as independency, and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any such laws in which we have no voice or representation.
-The ideas espoused by Abigail Adams during the time the Constitution was crafted reveal the

Accepted Answer

A)  tensions surrounding the expanded role of the federal government. 
B)  increasing scope of rights being given to women. 
C)  growing opposition to the expansion of slavery. 
D)  struggle to define the conditions of citizenship and equality. 
A)  tensions surrounding the expanded role of the federal government. 
B)  increasing scope of rights being given to women. 
C)  growing opposition to the expansion of slavery. 
D)  struggle to define the conditions of citizenship and equality.

Question 15

Despite many slaves being emancipated during and right after the American Revolution, why did the number of slaves increase by 200,000 from 1776 to 1790?

Accepted Answer

A)  As compensation for the war, the British sent many slaves from the Caribbean to the United States. 
B)  The Quakers gave up on the idea of trying to abolish slavery. 
C)  Owning slaves in the South was seen as a key ingredient to economic autonomy. 
D)  The North increased its demand for slaves and surpassed the number of slaves residing in the South. 
A)  As compensation for the war, the British sent many slaves from the Caribbean to the United States. 
B)  The Quakers gave up on the idea of trying to abolish slavery. 
C)  Owning slaves in the South was seen as a key ingredient to economic autonomy. 
D)  The North increased its demand for slaves and surpassed the number of slaves residing in the South.

Question 16

In the United States today, which would best resemble an eighteenth-century companionate marriage?

Accepted Answer

A)  An arranged marriage between immigrants. 
B)  A husband who is the primary breadwinner and has all of the assets in his name. 
C)  A spouse who makes all the decisions concerning the children's education. 
D)  A union based on love with equal say in running the household. 
A)  An arranged marriage between immigrants. 
B)  A husband who is the primary breadwinner and has all of the assets in his name. 
C)  A spouse who makes all the decisions concerning the children's education. 
D)  A union based on love with equal say in running the household.

Question 17

Why did John Adams believe that land ownership was vital to society?

Accepted Answer

A)  He opposed slavery and felt that if small farmers owned land, they would have the power to outvote slaveowners. 
B)  If more people owned land, it would be less likely that fixed and unequal social classes would emerge. 
C)  Land ownership would make people more conservative, and that would counteract any democratic impulses. 
D)  Government would have to encourage it, and Adams believed in an activist federal government. 
A)  He opposed slavery and felt that if small farmers owned land, they would have the power to outvote slaveowners. 
B)  If more people owned land, it would be less likely that fixed and unequal social classes would emerge. 
C)  Land ownership would make people more conservative, and that would counteract any democratic impulses. 
D)  Government would have to encourage it, and Adams believed in an activist federal government.

Question 18

During the 1780s, what would an American say was the best option for Native Americans in the United States?

Accepted Answer

A)  To become farmers. 
B)  To fight. 
C)  To work with American settlers. 
D)  to leave the United States. 
A)  To become farmers. 
B)  To fight. 
C)  To work with American settlers. 
D)  to leave the United States.

Question 19

Ultimately, the American Revolution did what to slavery?

Accepted Answer

A)  It began the process of ending it permanently. 
B)  It saw an actual increase of slavery by 1790. 
C)  It resulted in the British putting an immediate end to slavery throughout their empire. 
D)  It led to more Indians being enslaved than people of African heritage. 
A)  It began the process of ending it permanently. 
B)  It saw an actual increase of slavery by 1790. 
C)  It resulted in the British putting an immediate end to slavery throughout their empire. 
D)  It led to more Indians being enslaved than people of African heritage.

Question 20

From a legal perspective, the first step in ending slavery in New England resulted in:

Accepted Answer

A)  Gradual abolition. 
B)  Banning the slave trade. 
C)  Ending slave marriages. 
D)  Stopping marriages between whites and slaves. 
A)  Gradual abolition. 
B)  Banning the slave trade. 
C)  Ending slave marriages. 
D)  Stopping marriages between whites and slaves.

Exam 6: The Revolution Within

To deal with a wartime economic crisis in 1779, Congress urged states to:

The notion that women should receive a formal education is most consistent with

An example of anti-Catholicism during the 1770s was the:

If Thomas Jefferson lived in the seventeenth century, what would he have feared most?

Why did apprenticeship and indentured servitude decline after the Revolution?

What served as a sort of "school of political democracy" for the members of the "lower orders" in the colonies-turned-states?

In regard to Loyalists during the American Revolution:

How did Pennsylvania display the Revolutionary War's radical potential?

What was the most significant reason why Thomas Jefferson wanted public education and the creation of the University of Virginia?

"Republican motherhood" was an ideology that held that:

How did John Locke influence slave holders?

What role did Native Americans play in the Revolutionary War?

Despite many slaves being emancipated during and right after the American Revolution, why did the number of slaves increase by 200,000 from 1776 to 1790?

In the United States today, which would best resemble an eighteenth-century companionate marriage?

Why did John Adams believe that land ownership was vital to society?

During the 1780s, what would an American say was the best option for Native Americans in the United States?

Ultimately, the American Revolution did what to slavery?

From a legal perspective, the first step in ending slavery in New England resulted in:

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