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Quiz Instructions In this reading quiz you will answer a variety of 15 short-answer questions based on chapter 5. You should do this open-book quiz while you do the readings.

7 ptsQuestion 1

Smallpox and the end of enlistments were factors in the failed American attempt to capture Quebec in the winter of 1775-76.

Nearly 5,000 African Americans fought agains the British.

Washington called his own men "nasty, dirty, and disobedient."

It was easier for the Confederation Congress to finance the army since the fighting took place in America.

They were citizen-soldiers who were mostly farmers.

Which of the following is NOT true about the Continental Army?

7 ptsQuestion 2

Washington threatened to shoot any of his men who deserted.

When the British Army and Navy arrived in New York City in the late summer of 1776, a series of battles ensued. Which of the following is NOT true about the Battles of New York City?

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The British won all the battles, took the city, but Washington succesfully capture New York City on Christmas night, 1776.

Once the British captured NYC, it became the British Headquarters, and Loyalists flocked to the city.

The British won all of them and captured the city.

After the battles, Thomas Paine wrote "These are the times that try men's souls...Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered...".

5 ptsQuestion 3

True

False

By 1777, Washington believed the only way to win the war was to attack the British Army and completely destroy it.

7 ptsQuestion 4

Most loyalists were in the countryside, and tried to avoid seaport cities.

Ben Franklin's own son was the loyalist governor of New Jersey.

One loyalist/tory declared he'd rather "be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away" rather than "3,000 tyrants 1 mile away."

The American Revolution can also be called a civil war, because American Patriots/Whigs also fought American Loyalists/Tories. Which of the following is NOT an example of this?

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Benedict Arnold began the war as a patriot, but eventually switched sides.

7 ptsQuestion 5

They were a factor in the French joining the war as an ally of the Americans in 1778.

General Burgoyne surrended to General Horation Gates.

This was George Washington's greatest victory of the war.

They were the greatest loss that the British had ever suffered in the war.

They were in upstate New York.

Which is NOT true about the Battles of Saratoga (October, 1777)?

7 ptsQuestion 6

The only battle fought in Florida.

How the British had difficulties supplying their army across the ocean.

How the Continental Congress could create an army, but not supply it.

How the Spanish and Dutch were able to help the Americans.

Why the French decided to form an alliance with the Americans.

The winter spent at Valley Forge (1777-78) was an example of....

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7 ptsQuestion 7

Kill five captured Indians.

Cut of the hands of a British soldier.

Eat animals they hunted so the starving British soldiers could see.

Do a Native American War Dance.

Fly a white flag to surrender.

Way out in the West, what did George Rogers Clark order his men ("Rangers") to do in sight of a British fort on the Mississippi River in 1778?

6 ptsQuestion 8

True

False

Despite the fact that American frontiersmen were hostile to Indians along the frontier, George Washington ordered that all Americans, including soldiers, treat the Indians fairly (i.e. in upstate New York in August, 1779). He hoped to encourage all Indians to support the patriots, and he hoped to use them against the British and loyalists.

7 ptsQuestion 9

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Surrender immediately to save civilian lives.

Attack the British before they arrived outside the city.

Evacuate the city and fight in a better location.

Spread smallpox in the British camp.

Arm slaves to help defend the city (Plantation owners refused).

What did the American commander at Charleston, S. C. (General Benjamin Lincoln) beg to have done to save the city from the British in 1780?

5 ptsQuestion 10

True

False

John Adams was a good choice to join Benjamin Franklin in negotiating the Treaty of Paris (1783), because, as Thomas Jefferson said, the friendly Adams "loved Franklin, loved John Jay, loves the French, and loves the English."

6 ptsQuestion 11

True

The Republican Ideology embraced by the American Revolutionaries was for pure democracy, like in ancient Athens.

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False

6 ptsQuestion 12

True

False

The new 13 states had state constitutions even before the U.S. Constitution was written in 1787. Most of these constitutions even included a bill of rights.

8 ptsQuestion 13

It reflected a fear of monarchies by NOT creating a president or chief executive.

The Confederation had no national court, but could tax the states.

It had full power over foreign affairs and disputes between the states.

It was first official government of the U.S.A., since the Continental Congress had exercised emergency powers without any legal or official authority.

It was ratified in 1781.

Which of the following is NOT true about the Articles of Confederation?

8 ptsQuestion 14

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Thomas Jefferson's "Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom", which declared that "all men shall be free to profess...their opinions in matters of religion."

Thomas Jeremiah, the wealthiest black man in North America, died peacefully of old age in Charleston, S.C..

The decline of the Anglican Church in America (though it continued in the US as the Episcopal Church).

"Some 2,000 freed blacks immigrated to Sierra Leone, where British abolishonists helped them create an experimental colony known as Freetown."

The departure of tens of thousands of loyalists.

Which of the following was NOT an example of the "social revolution" that resulted from the American Revolution?

7 ptsQuestion 15

George Washington allowed free blacks, but not slaves, to enlist in the Continental Army.

During this period in American history, women basically had the legal rights of children. They could not vote or hold office, and once married, they "essentially became the possession of their husband."

All Native American tribes who allied with the Patriots were allowed to keep their lands after the war. The American Revolution was a victory for them the same as it was for white Americans.

John Adams had good reason to think that July 2, NOT July 4, would be celebrated as Independence Day, since July 2 is the day Congress resolved for Independence. July 4 is simply the day Congress approved the document written by Thomas Jefferson.

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

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Robert Shurtleff, a soldier in a Massachusetts regiment from 1781-1783, was in reality a woman.

The textbook claims that for Edward Rutledge of S.C., and many other plantation owners, the Revolution was more about defending slavery than anything else.

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