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The men who led the Revolution from start to finish were, by and large, members of the American elite.

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Part of the philosophy of the Revolution was embracing the principle of hereditary aristocracy.

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MATCHING -freedom petitions


A) raised funds to assist American soldiers
B) working for wages, or owning a farm or shop
C) an offensive term for the rituals of the Catholic Church
D) "School of political democracy"
E) retained their allegiance to the crown
F) fighting for the American cause
G) Revolution undermined church authority among this group
H) responsible for raising the next generation of leaders
I) the right to vote
J) action slaves took for their immediate release
K) ability to sacrifice self-interest for the public good
L) settlement in Africa for freed slaves

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MATCHING -Virtue


A) raised funds to assist American soldiers
B) working for wages, or owning a farm or shop
C) an offensive term for the rituals of the Catholic Church
D) "School of political democracy"
E) retained their allegiance to the crown
F) fighting for the American cause
G) Revolution undermined church authority among this group
H) responsible for raising the next generation of leaders
I) the right to vote
J) action slaves took for their immediate release
K) ability to sacrifice self-interest for the public good
L) settlement in Africa for freed slaves

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The men who served in the Revolution through militias were empowered and demanded certain rights, thereby establishing the tradition that service in the army enabled excluded groups to stake a claim to full citizenship.

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -freedom petitions

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


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.
E) allowing women who owned a certain amount of property to vote, but preventing them from holding political office.

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MATCHING -Robert Morris


A) black poet
B) Pennsylvania radical
C) Thoughts on Government author
D) burned forty Indian towns
E) America's first Roman Catholic bishop
F) director of congressional fiscal policy
G) The Selling of Joseph author
H) wrote of universal freedom, even for blacks
I) drafted Virginia's Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom
J) "Remember the ladies"
K) The Wealth of Nations author
L) Mohawk Indian

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How did women react to the language of freedom and liberty? Be sure to include in your response Abigail Adams's opinions that appear in "Voices of Freedom."

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The new state constitutions created during the Revolutionary War:


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.
E) all retained tax-supported churches as a way of ensuring a virtuous citizenry.

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


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

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General John Sullivan:


A) led pro-American Cherokee troops in campaigns against Lord Cornwallis in North Carolina.
B) surrendered his forces to the Stockbridge Indians in a humiliating defeat.
C) destroyed forty Indian towns in a campaign against the Iroquois.
D) encouraged American forces to treat Indians and their lands "truly well and gently."
E) was a British spy whom pro-American Creek Indians unmasked.

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MATCHING -Ladies' Association


A) raised funds to assist American soldiers
B) working for wages, or owning a farm or shop
C) an offensive term for the rituals of the Catholic Church
D) "School of political democracy"
E) retained their allegiance to the crown
F) fighting for the American cause
G) Revolution undermined church authority among this group
H) responsible for raising the next generation of leaders
I) the right to vote
J) action slaves took for their immediate release
K) ability to sacrifice self-interest for the public good
L) settlement in Africa for freed slaves

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Treaty of Paris

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Which of the following was NOT an example of Loyalists being deprived of their freedom by patriots?


A) New state governments suppressed newspapers thought to be loyal to Britain.
B) Pennsylvania's government seized property from members of pacifist religious groups.
C) Many states required oaths of allegiance to the new nation.
D) Several states denied Loyalists the right to vote and forced them into exile.
E) The New England states forced Loyalists into militias against their will.

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Joseph Brant, a young Mohawk:


A) wanted to create an Indian confederacy between Canada and the United States.
B) allied with the Continental Congress and led troops against the British in the Great Lakes region.
C) represented Indian interests at the negotiations of the Treaty of Paris.
D) urged all Indians to move west of the Mississippi River to preserve their cultures from "contamination" by whites.
E) was appointed first Governor-General of Upper Canada in 1781.

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


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.
E) Deists and evangelicals fought with one another over whether church and state should be separate.

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Which statement about Revolutionary Pennsylvania is FALSE?


A) Nearly all of its prewar elites opposed independence.
B) The radical leadership that emerged included Thomas Paine and Benjamin Rush.
C) The radical leadership attacked property qualifications for voting.
D) The state's new constitution gave only limited power to the state's governor.
E) Its new constitution centralized political power in a one-house legislature.

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Freedom and an individual's right to vote had become interchangeable by the war's end.

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The irony that America cried for liberty while enslaving Africans was not lost on some British observers like Dr. Samuel Johnson.

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