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The British commander who sent his troops to capture Patriot supplies in Concord in April 1775 was General A) Thomas Gage. B) William Howe. C) Thomas Hutchinson. D) John Burgoyne.
E) Charles Cornwallis
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 2. The purpose of the British army's march on Concord, Massachusetts, in April 1775 was to A) train their troops for what appeared to be inevitable war. B) force Massachusetts leaders to pay for the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party. C) track down the persons responsible for burning the Gaspee. D) seize the war supplies stored there.
E) capture leading rebels such as Thomas Hutchinson.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 3. In May 1775 shortly after it convened, the Second Continental Congress A) declared independence from Great Britain because of the battles at Lexington and Concord. B) formed the Continental Army under the leadership of George Washington. C) organized the Continental Association to force England to repeal the Intolerable Acts. D) called on the states to write new constitutions.
E) refused to take any action that might be seen as disloyal to England.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 4.
According to your text, the first major battle of the Revolutionary War was the Battle of A) Concord. B) Fort Ticonderoga. C) Valley Forge. D) Lexington.
E) Bunker Hill.
Points Earned: 0.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 5. After the Battle of Bunker Hill, Congress and the bulk of the American people were A) still reluctant to declare independence. B) ready to surrender on any terms the British offered. C) convinced that the war could not be lost. D) demanding Washington's resignation.
E) forming local militias to fight the British.
Points Earned: 0.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 6. In January 1776, the British pushed the colonists toward independence by hiring ________ mercenaries. A) Hessian B) Swiss C) Prussian D) Bavarian
E) Saxon
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 7. The author of the tract, Common Sense, which boldly called for complete independence and attacked not only King George III, but also the idea of monarchy itself, was
Thomas Jefferson's general statement of the right of revolution in the Declaration of Independence A) rejected the assumptions of most 18th century liberals. B) has had little historical impact. C) was intended by Jefferson to be an expression of the American mind. D) was in the second, much longer, section of the Declaration which lists the crimes of George III.
E) was primarily intended to influence domestic opinion.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 11. An American advantage in the war for independence was A) an incompetent and unprofessional British army. B) control of the seas through a large navy. C) a strong centralized government capable of organizing the war effort. D) British reluctance to engage in full-scale war against the colonies.
E) the undivided loyalty of Americans to the patriotic cause.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 12. A major British advantage in 1776 was their A) control of both Boston and New York City. B) ability to rely on loyal Americans for supplies and troops. C) far larger population than the colonies'. D) ability to concentrate the cream of their army in America.
E) strong public support for sending their crack troops for a full-scale attack on the
colonies.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C
The best estimate of the proportion of Patriots and Tories during the war for independence is that A) most Americans were strongly opposed to independence. B) Patriots were more numerous than Tories, but large numbers of Americans were indifferent. C) Tories constituted less than one percent of the American population. D) the population was about evenly divided between the two groups.
E) Tories were more numerous than Patriots, but large numbers of Americans were
indifferent.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 14. As a group, the Tories in America A) came from every social and economic class and geographic area B) were tightly organized through a central committee of loyalists. C) refused to fight for England. D) were treated fairly and tolerantly by Patriots.
E) were actually less likely to be people who previously had close connections in
Britain.
Points Earned: 0.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 15. Battles in and around ________ in August and September of 1776 were ignominious defeats for Washington's forces and seemed to presage an easy British triumph in the war. A) Boston B) Philadelphia C) Baltimore D) Charleston
E) New York city
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E
Correct Answer(s): E 19. The United States' most valuable ally in the Revolution was A) Prussia. B) Spain. C) France. D) Holland.
E) Germany.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 20. During the winter of 1778, Washington's army endured severe shortages of food and clothing while camped at A) Valley Forge. B) Germantown. C) Trenton. D) Brandywine.
E) Princeton.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 21. In 1778, fighting in the northern states practically ceased; thereafter, most of the engagements were in the A) Ohio River Valley. B) Canadian frontier. C) Mississippi River Valley. D) South.
E) Tennessee River Valley.
Points Earned: 0.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D
The most overwhelming American defeat in the war was General Clinton's May 1780 capture of A) Boston. B) Philadelphia. C) New York city. D) Trenton.
E) Charleston.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 23. How did historians react to depiction of the Revolution in The Patriot? A) They praised the accurate historical costumes. B) They were critical of many aspects of the film, especially the totally fictionalized British incineration of an occupied church. C) They thought the Battle of Cowpens was depicted with considerable historical accuracy. D) They praised the nuanced portraits of both the British and the Patriots.
E) They were pleased that the main character was based on an actual person.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 24. The British defeat at Yorktown resulted largely from the A) inability of the British to persuade Tories to join them. B) French fleet winning control of Chesapeake Bay and preventing Cornwallis from escaping from the peninsula by sea. C) ability of Washington to outmaneuver Cornwallis' much larger army and force him to retreat to the peninsula. D) failure of Cornwallis to receive General Clinton's orders to withdraw.
E) unwillingness of the British to re-supply and reinforce Cornwallis.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B
E) centralized system with power vested solely in the national government.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 28. The American government raised over $200 million and much of the cost of the Revolutionary War by A) borrowing from France. B) taxing American citizens directly. C) printing paper money. D) requisitioning funds from the states.
E) borrowing from Holland.
Points Earned: 0.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 29. The wartime Superintendent of Finance who restored order and credit to the government's treasury was A) James Wilson. B) Silas Deane. C) James Madison. D) Henry Laurens.
E) Robert Morris.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 30. The most significant change in the new state governments was the A) elimination of the office of governor in most states. B) general rejection of the British system as a model. C) elimination of property qualifications for voting and office holding. D) removal of outside control, making them more responsive to public opinion.
E) abolition of the executive branch in most states.
Points Earned: 0.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D
During the Revolutionary War, the new constitution of ________ replaced the office of governor with an elected council of twelve members. A) South Carolina B) Pennsylvania C) New York D) Massachusetts
E) Virginia
Points Earned: 0.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 32. In the new state governments created during the Revolution, power was concentrated in the A) governors. B) courts. C) executive councils. D) legislatures.
E) townships or counties.
Points Earned: 0.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 33. What happened to social reform when many states wrote constitutions during the revolution? A) It was neglected because of wartime necessities. B) Many states seized the occasion to introduce important political and social reforms. C) It focused on limiting the ability of the powerful to exploit the powerless. D) It became identified with Loyalism.
E) Many states moved toward reform, but most failed to complete major changes.
Points Earned: 0.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 34. As part of the social reforms accompanying the Revolution, all states which still had them abolished A) primogeniture and entail. B) property qualifications for voters. C) public taxes to support religion. D) slavery and apprenticeship.
E) educational qualifications for voters.
The text notes that during and after the Revolution, slavery A) was immediately abolished in the northern states. B) was abolished in all British colonies. C) was outlawed by the British in areas they controlled. D) increased rapidly throughout the colonies.
E) died where it was not economically important.
Points Earned: 0.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 39. How did the Revolution affect attitudes toward the education of women? A) The British tried to undermine the Patriots by encouraging female education. B) Women were told their place was in the home, not in schools. C) The idea of female education began to be accepted as important in a republic. D) Because most states granted women the right to vote, they encouraged their education also.
E) The British prohibited any education for women in areas they controlled.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 40. Analyzing the relationship between the American Revolution and nationalism, your text concludes that a feeling of American nationalism A) provoked the movement toward American independence. B) was actually an obstacle the Patriots had to overcome. C) never developed in the period before the adoption of the Constitution in 1789. D) emerged out of the necessity to unite in order to win the war.
E) had been very strong since the founding of the colonies.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 41. A major source of the new feeling of nationalism after the Revolutionary War was the A) common sacrifice by soldiers and civilians during the war. B) inspiration from the patriotic novels of James Fenimore Cooper. C) strong central government created by the Articles of Confederation. D) expansion of American territory to include Newfoundland and Florida.
E) common dedication to freedom embodied in the attacks on slavery.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A
According to the map, "The United States Under the Articles of Confederation, 1787," one state which claimed that its western boundary extended to the Mississippi River was A) North Carolina. B) Pennsylvania. C) Florida. D) New York.
E) Maryland.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 43. The law which divided the western territories into 6-mile-square townships was the A) Northwest Ordinance of 1787. B) Homestead Law of 1793. C) Land Ordinance of 1785. D) Township Act of 1784.
E) Settlement Act of 1786.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 44. The measure which established governments for the western territories was the A) Land Ordinance of 1785. B) Treaty of Paris, 1783. C) Proclamation of 1763. D) National Territories Act of 1792.
E) Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 45. In comparing the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 with the system by which Great Britain governed her colonies, it would be most accurate to say that the British system was A) adopted in its entirety as the permanent form of government for the territories. B) rejected completely in favor of immediate statehood for the territories because of the injustices the colonies experienced. C) adopted for the intermediate stage of territorial development which would give way to statehood in the third stage. D) endorsed as philosophically desirable, but practically unworkable.
E) adopted only for the initial stage of territorial development.
Points Earned: 0.0/1.
E) Jedidiah Morse.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 50. In the opinion of your textbook, most American citizens in the 1780s gave their first loyalty to A) King George III. B) their own states. C) the new national government. D) the country from which their ancestors originally came.
E) their counties or townships.
Points Earned: 0.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B
