Question 1

Republican motherhood encouraged:

Accepted Answer

A)  greater educational opportunities for women. 
B)  a radical change in the patriarchal structure of the family. 
C)  women to become public speakers for various social causes in the 1780s. 
D)  widespread resentment among women.

Question 2

What key role did Loyalist exiles serve in Canada?

Accepted Answer

A)  They helped inspire future rebellions in Canada. 
B)  Most wanted to ban slavery in Canada. 
C)  They hoped to mount an attack on the United States in order to restore it as a British colony. 
D)  They pushed for an alliance with France.

Question 3

Which settlement in Africa did the British establish for former slaves from the United States?

Accepted Answer

A)  Liberia. 
B)  Sierra Leone. 
C)  Monrovia. 
D)  Ghana.

Question 4

Who benefited the most from the American Revolution and its immediate aftermath?

Accepted Answer

A)  A Native American in the Ohio River Valley. 
B)  An indentured servant in New York. 
C)  A slave in South Carolina. 
D)  A poor white farmer in Virginia.

Question 5

Who publicly referred to slavery as a "national crime" that would one day bring "national punishment"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Thomas Jefferson. 
B)  Joseph Brant. 
C)  Benjamin Rush. 
D)  George Washington.

Question 6

Which of the following is true of how the new state constitutions in the Revolutionary era dealt with the issue of religious liberty?

Accepted Answer

A)  Several states finally allowed Jews to vote and to hold public office. 
B)  States increased public funding of religion because they no longer had to win British approval to do so. 
C)  Seven state constitutions began with a declaration of rights that included a commitment to "the free exercise of religion." 
D)  Thomas Jefferson wrote a "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom" in Virginia, but the House of Burgesses never adopted it.

Question 7

Evaluate the extent to which the French and Indian War (1754-1763) helped maintain continuity and also fostered change in British North American colonies between 1754 and 1776.

Accepted Answer

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Question 8

In his Thoughts on Government (1776), John Adams advocated state constitutions that provided for:

Accepted Answer

A)  a powerful governor and a two-house legislature that reflected the division of society between wealthy and ordinary men. 
B)  a legislature elected and controlled entirely by the wealthy, with a weak governor elected by the people so that they would feel that they had a role. 
C)  voting rights for all men at least twenty-one years old. 
D)  centralizing political power in a one-house legislature and dispensing with the office of governor.

Question 9

Who might be considered an ideal woman in late-eighteenth-century America?

Accepted Answer

A)  An educated single woman. 
B)  An educated mother. 
C)  A farmer's widow. 
D)  A seamstress.

Question 10

How did the War for Independence affect anti-Catholicism in America?

Accepted Answer

A)  Anti-Catholicism increased when Quebec Catholics volunteered in large numbers for the British army. 
B)  Because Americans resented Catholic France negotiating a separate peace with Great Britain, anti-Catholicism became more prevalent. 
C)  Independence led the states to impose anti-Catholic laws that they had been unable to adopt when they were under British control. 
D)  The alliance with France, a predominantly Catholic country, helped diminish American anti-Catholicism.

Question 11

As a result of the American Revolution, Americans rejected:

Accepted Answer

A)  obedience to the male heads of household. 
B)  the principle of hereditary aristocracy. 
C)  the establishment of a republic. 
D)  the definition of liberty as a universal entitlement.

Question 12

The new state constitutions created during the Revolutionary War:

Accepted Answer

A)  completely eliminated property qualifications for voting. 
B)  became far more democratic in the southern states than in the northern states. 
C)  greatly expanded the right to vote in almost every state. 
D)  did nothing to change the composition of elite-dominated state legislatures.

Question 13

What was one factor that did not prevent a person from voting before the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

A)  Owning a business. 
B)  Paying taxes. 
C)  Owning property. 
D)  Being educated.

Question 14

The British Navigation Acts contradicted the ideas:

Accepted Answer

A)  of Abigail Adams in her letter to her husband about women's rights. 
B)  in Wealth of Nations. 
C)  in Circle of the Social and Benevolent Affections. 
D)  of the freedom petitions by slaves.

Question 15

Approximately how many free Americans remained loyal to the British during the war?

Accepted Answer

A)  5 to 10 percent. 
B)  10 to 15 percent. 
C)  20 to 25 percent. 
D)  30 to 35 percent.

Question 16

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.
-This excerpt best represents which of the following developments during the time of the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

A)  The ideal of "republican motherhood" gained popularity. 
B)  Women were able to expand their roles in the workplace. 
C)  Women advanced in the leadership of many churches. 
D)  The movement for women's suffrage gained momentum.

Question 17

The efforts to emancipate slaves in the 1770s and 1780s:

Accepted Answer

A)  occurred only in the New England states. 
B)  resulted entirely from voluntary work by slaveholders. 
C)  included all slaves north of South Carolina. 
D)  reflected the importance of property rights.

Question 18

In regard to voting for the states, what was a contentious issue?

Accepted Answer

A)  Being a Native American. 
B)  Being an Anglican. 
C)  Owning property. 
D)  Not owning slaves.

Question 19

Virtually every founding father owned at least one slave at some point in his life. Who was a notable exception?

Accepted Answer

A)  George Washington. 
B)  John Adams. 
C)  Thomas Jefferson. 
D)  Benjamin Franklin.

Question 20

Who was Phillis Wheatley?

Accepted Answer

A)  A poet who wrote about how African-Americans felt about freedom. 
B)  A fund-raiser for the Ladies' Association, whose efforts fed nearly starving men at Valley Forge. 
C)  A pamphleteer whose ringing protests reminded Bostonians that women, too, cared about liberty. 
D)  A woman who, disguised as a man, died while fighting during the Yorktown campaign.

Exam 6: The Revolution Within