Exam 5: The American Revolution, 1763-1783

A) It was the only document in 1776 calling for American independence.
B) It was mostly original in its ideas and concepts.
C) It wanted the United States to form a representative government.
D) It expanded the size of the public sphere, going beyond the elite.
E) It talked about how American commerce would flourish even more once it was no longer under British regulations.

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A) first significant American victory
B) beneficiary of the Tea Act
C) religious tolerance for Catholics
D) colonists who were loyal to Britain
E) black Loyalist forces
F) pamphlet that argued for American independence
G) each member of Parliament represented the entire empire
H) exchanged ideas about resistance
I) street protesters
J) wealthy South Carolina backcountry
K) refusal to buy British goods
L) viewed by colonists as a major violation of liberty

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A) from minor skirmishes of fewer than 100 men to major battles, each involving thousands of soldiers.
B) from fighting in the southern states to fighting in New York and New England.
C) to an emphasis on the Continental army's trying to capture British strongholds in the Ohio Valley.
D) to the South, where the British captured Savannah that year.
E) to emancipation, when General Washington declared that all slaves who fought for American independence should be free.

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A) Because it would aid a different part of the empire than their own, colonists felt that this was the kind of discriminatory action that violated the concept of liberty.
B) By paying it, they would be acknowledging Great Britain's right to tax the colonists.
C) It granted a monopoly, and the colonists opposed all forms of monopoly.
D) The British East India Company made inferior tea, and colonists preferred not to drink it.
E) It raised the tax on tea so much as to make tea prohibitively expensive.

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A) Both Jefferson and Paine discussed how the United States could create a navy.
B) Both showed how a king can be a tyrant.
C) Paine used many Latin phrases, which led Jefferson to do the same.
D) Paine criticized using slaves from Africa, and that same criticism appeared in the Declaration of Independence.
E) Both documents contradicted the ideas of John Locke.

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A) The peace treaty that ended the Regulator movement in North Carolina.
B) A list of demands addressed to landlords, made in 1772 by New York tenant farmers.
C) A group of anti-Tea Act petitions from Boston merchants to the Massachusetts royal governor.
D) The resolutions pledging the Continental Congress's loyalty to King George III in 1775.
E) A set of resolutions made in 1774, urging Massachusetts citizens to prepare for war.

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A) the female children of the Founding Fathers, especially the daughters of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson.
B) New England women who won voting rights in the 1770s.
C) the brave women who cared for wounded soldiers during the early battles of the Revolution.
D) women who spun and wove to create their own clothing rather than buy British goods.
E) the first national women's patriotic organization, which raised money to provide supplies for the Continental army after Saratoga.

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A) offered freedom to slaves if they fought for the British
B) American traitor in command of West Point
C) lawyer defending British soldiers at Boston Massacre
D) British chancellor of the Exchequer
E) Massachusetts lieutenant governor
F) wrote Common Sense
G) commander of the Continental army
H) author of the Declaration of Independence
I) British commander
J) sailor who died in the Boston Massacre
K) declared "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
L) leader of the Green Mountain boys

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A) first significant American victory
B) beneficiary of the Tea Act
C) religious tolerance for Catholics
D) colonists who were loyal to Britain
E) black Loyalist forces
F) pamphlet that argued for American independence
G) each member of Parliament represented the entire empire
H) exchanged ideas about resistance
I) street protesters
J) wealthy South Carolina backcountry
K) refusal to buy British goods
L) viewed by colonists as a major violation of liberty

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A) symbolized the threat to liberty for many in both Britain and America.
B) pleased most American colonists because of Wilkes's pro-Stamp Act editorials.
C) resulted from a column Wilkes wrote that was sympathetic toward those killed in the Boston Massacre.
D) came after a London jury convicted him of colluding with pro-independence colonists.
E) was reversed by the king, which led to a British constitutional crisis that diverted attention from the colonies.

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A) offered freedom to slaves if they fought for the British
B) American traitor in command of West Point
C) lawyer defending British soldiers at Boston Massacre
D) British chancellor of the Exchequer
E) Massachusetts lieutenant governor
F) wrote Common Sense
G) commander of the Continental army
H) author of the Declaration of Independence
I) British commander
J) sailor who died in the Boston Massacre
K) declared "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
L) leader of the Green Mountain boys

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A) defended in court the British soldiers who participated in the Boston Massacre.
B) organized the boycott of British imports following the Townshend Act.
C) was the first person of mixed race to serve in the Continental Congress.
D) was a man of mixed race who was killed at the Boston Massacre.
E) died bravely at the Battle of Concord.

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A) The Sugar Act financially hurt New England merchants.
B) The Stamp Act was a tax that most colonists had to pay.
C) The colonists did not like a westward barrier to settlements.
D) The colonists criticized the lack of representation in Parliament.
E) The colonists did not want the writs of assistance to be used.

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A) The elite became more aware of liberty, but the lower classes remained unconcerned, choosing instead just to follow leaders who encouraged them to riot.
B) The Stamp Act Congress insisted that the right to consent to taxation was essential to people's freedom.
C) It led the Stamp Act Congress to adopt the Declaratory Act, which defined American liberties.
D) It convinced colonists that revolting against Great Britain was the only way to secure their liberties.
E) Requiring everyone freed from jail to wear a stamp reminded colonists that they were prisoners of the British empire.

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