History: Chapter 5

A key consequence of the Battle of Saratoga in October 1777 was:

All of the following were advantages enjoyed by the British during the American Revolution EXCEPT:

During the Revolutionary War, tensions between backcountry farmers and wealthy planters:

The "Daughters of Liberty" was the name given to:

The Committees of Safety:

The expulsion of the journalist John Wilkes from his seat in Parliament:

The main point of The American Crisis was:

The Stamp Act created such a stir in the colonies because:

The Townshend duties did all of the following EXCEPT:

Virtual representation was the idea:

What contribution did the Stamp Act episode make to the colonists' concept of liberty?

What did Lord Dunmore do that horrified many southerners?

What major event first led the British government to seek ways to make the colonies bear part of the cost of the empire?

What were the Suffolk Resolves?

Why did colonists object to the Tea Act?

Although a few were outraged by the Stamp Act, most politically active colonists actually supported it.

American colonists widely believed that Britain had no authority to tax the colonists since the colonists had no elected representative in Parliament.

American leaders viewed the British empire as an association of equals.

Americans did not gain much more than independence from the Treaty of Paris.

Benedict Arnold almost succeeded in turning over to the British the important fort of Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain.

Blacks who fought under George Washington did so in segregated units.

British commanders were never able to consolidate their hold on the South.

Great Britain had the world's largest navy.

Homespun clothing became a symbol of American resistance during the American boycott on British goods.

James Chalmers, the Loyalist and member of Maryland's planter elite, equated independence with slavery.

John Wilkes was expelled from his seat in Parliament for his scandalous writings about the king; this caused many colonists to rally to his side with the call "Wilkes and Liberty."

Samuel Adams defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre in a court of law.

Siding with the British offered slaves far more opportunities for liberty than did siding with the pro-independence Americans.

The American victory at Trenton convinced the French to join the American cause.

The First Continental Congress raised an army and appointed George Washington as its commander.

The French played a significant role in the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.

The idea of American exceptionalism was prevalent in the Revolution.

The Sons of Liberty enforced a boycott of British goods.

The Treaty of Paris was negotiated within six months after Cornwallis's surrender.

Thomas Paine's Common Sense was written specifically for the educated elite.

Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense as a response to Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.

To resist the Intolerable Acts, a Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia.

Washington's army was demoralized by repeated failures early in the war, and many soldiers simply went home.