Chapters 8-9 Test

Front 1

What was the principal reason that the Second Continental Congress selected George Washington to head the army in 1775?

Back 1

They wanted to squelch tensions between the colonies.

Front 2

The Olive Branch Petition was:

Back 2

a last-ditch effort by the Continental Congress to urge King George to end the hostilities.

Front 3

Why did the colonial army invade and seek to conquer Canada in late 1775?

Back 3

They hoped to add it as a fourteenth colony.

Front 4

Even as they engaged in battles in 1775 and 1776, Americans continued to resist total independence from England for many reasons EXCEPT that:

Back 4

they needed British protection from other potential invading nations.

Front 5

Who was the first person to propose that the colonies become completely independent of England?

Back 5

Thomas Paine

Front 6

In republican governments:

Back 6

power flows from the people.

Front 7

What is meant by "a natural aristocracy of talent"?

Back 7

That only the best-educated and socially situated men were qualified to lead.

Front 8

In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson listed many things for severing ties with England EXCEPT:

Back 8

granting religious tolerance to Roman Catholics and others.

Front 9

What could NOT be said about Loyalists, who did not want to break from England?

Back 9

A large majority were African American current and former slaves.

Front 10

In terms of supporting the Revolution, most colonists were initially:

Back 10

neutral.

Front 11

What is the military significance of Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas Day in 1776 and later surprising the Hessians at Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey?

Back 11

The victories proved life-saving to the colonists' cause.

Front 12

The Battle of Saratoga proved vitally important to the American cause because:

Back 12

it encouraged France to provide much-needed military aid.

Front 13

What was NOT among America's goals for revolutionizing international affairs after its battle for independence?

Back 13

Forging military alliances

Front 14

The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was:

Back 14

the first treaty between the US and an Indian nation.

Front 15

Why have women's rights activists historically regarded Abigail Adams as a heroine when there was no full-fledged women's movement in America until the 1840s?

Back 15

She urged her prominent husband, John Adams, to consider women's rights in the development of independent America.

Front 16

The revolutionary war became a global conflagration because many countries played a role EXCEPT:

Back 16

Poland.

Front 17

The American Revolution is most accurately described as:

Back 17

more of an evolution than a revolution

Front 18

The aftermath of the American Revolution triggered many social changes EXCEPT that:

Back 18

inheritance laws were restructured so that all property would go to the family's eldest son.

Front 19

What is meant by the term republican motherhood?

Back 19

Women as shapers of future citizens

Front 20

The state constitutions that were drafted beginning in 1776 had many traits in common EXCEPT:

Back 20

limited legislative powers

Front 21

Economically, most Americans after the Revolution were:

Back 21

worse off than before the war.

Front 22

What single issue nearly kept several colonies from refusing to sign the Articles of Confederation:

Back 22

Western lands

Front 23

Although a landmark in government, why were the Articles of Confederation ultimately replaced with the U.S. Constitution?

Back 23

The Articles gave Congress no power to regulate commerce or to enforce taxation.

Front 24

Passed by the Confederation Congress, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787:

Back 24

banned slavery in the Old Northwest.

Front 25

The United States faced many problems with foreign nations under the Articles of Confederation EXCEPT that:

Back 25

Latin American nations refused United States' imports.

Front 26

Which of the following best describes Shay's Rebellion?

Back 26

A protest by debt-ridden farmers who were losing their land to foreclosures

Front 27

The man nicknamed "the father of the Constitution" was

Back 27

James Madison

Front 28

What was NOT among the reasons for revising the Articles of Confederation at the 1787 meeting of state delegates in Philadelphia?

Back 28

Protecting existing institutions, including slavery

Front 29

The Constitution that was drafted in 1787 contained many compromises that secured its final passage EXCEPT

Back 29

a president elected by the people.

Front 30

True or false: Anti-federalists opposed adding a Bill of Rights into the Constitution.

Back 30

False

Front 31

The Articles of Confederation can be viewed as a reaction to life as British colonies because:

Back 31

it constructed a weak national government in response to Americans' fear of monarchy and tyranny

Front 32

The Constitution created a government unlike any in the world at the time because it:

Back 32

Combined self-rule end of self-limiting system of checks and balances allowing for liberty in order