Chapter 7

Question 1

American men who fought in the revolution

Answer 1

highest causality rates
over 200,000 men fought
more died from disease than from battle wounds 
only more casualties in the civil war
many poor and disadvantaged

Question 2

Northwest Ordinance

Answer 2

Illinois
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana 
wisconsin

Question 3

Articles of Confederation

Answer 3

Armed forces
obtain loans
conduct war
Monetary system

Question 4

Treaty of Paris (2) 1783

Answer 4

Western Boundary of Mississippi River
No more British forts in American Territory
Acknowledgement of Independence
Fishing in northern waters

Question 5

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Answer 5

Governor provided
New states were equal to old
Governor chosen by congress
Slavery prohibited

Question 6

Spain

Answer 6

more land than everyone else

joined war to expand its empire(didn’t really take a side)

Question 7

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 7

wanted to do away with state church (Anglican) of Virginia

Wanted to increase a national community sentiment

Question 8

Slavery - South

Answer 8

Some freed by Revolutionary ideals

Question 9

Slavery - North

Answer 9

Abolished in most states

Question 10

Women

Answer 10

Changes in expectations

Question 11

Indians

Answer 11

another disastrous defeat

Question 12

France

Answer 12

decided to join American cause after victory at Saratoga.

Question 13

Land Ordinance of 1785

Answer 13

public education

Question 14

George Washington

Answer 14

could have created a military government with himself as leader, but didn’t (Military was not and would not be in charge).

Question 15

Economy

Answer 15

inflation

Question 16

Balanced Government

Answer 16

avoid mob rule by “unthinking.”

Question 17

What was the 14th State?

Answer 17

Vermont

Question 18

Where did George Washington’s soldiers suffer hardship during winter that eventually became a symbol for American Nationalism?

Answer 18

Valley Forge

Question 19

What were colonist who supported the British called?

Answer 19

Loyalists

Question 20

Who was a hero of the revolution, but later turned into a British Informer?

Answer 20

Benedict Arnold

Question 21

Who was a notable woman activist who turned her home into a center of the Patriot political party and published a series of satires supporting the American cause and scorning the loyalists?

Answer 21

Mercy Otis Warren

Question 22

On Christmas Night 1776 Washington led troops across where to defeat the Hessian Forces in a surprise attack?

Answer 22

Delaware

Question 23

Where did British general John Burgoyne surrendered his forces on October 19. 1777 ?

Answer 23

Saratoga

Question 24

General Cornwallis surrendered a major British Army in 1781 following the siege of?

Answer 24

York Town

Question 25

Who painted the “Surrender of Lord Cornwallis?’

Answer 25

John Trumbull

Question 26

The ratification of what in 1781 created the first national government of the United States?

Answer 26

Articles of Confederation

Question 27

The overall casualty rate during the Revolution:

Answer 27

was greater than all other US conflicts except the civil war.

Question 28

Many of those loyal to Britain:

Answer 28

Were recent immigrants
held royal offices within the colonies
and were ethnic minorities who had faced persecution or harassment in the colonies

Question 29

The largest number of loyalists who left the united states during the revolution:

Answer 29

moved to Canada

Question 30

the first nation to sigh a formal treaty of alliance with the United States was:

Answer 30

France

Question 31

During the American Revolution:

Answer 31

The Indian tribes that became involved, the majority supported great britian

Question 32

the war in the south was characterized by :

Answer 32

vicious violence between patriots and Loyalists

Question 33

Patriot victory at Yorktown resulted from:

Answer 33

the successful joint efforts of American and French forces

Question 34

The Articles of Confederation

Answer 34

established a relatively weak central government that faced numerous challenges during the war

Question 35

a serious impediment to the ratification of the articles of confederation was:

Answer 35

lingering dispute over state claims to western lands

Question 36

Under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1787

Answer 36

the United states pledged to treat loyalists fairly and the United States gained all English territory east of the Mississippi river except Florida and Canada.

Question 37

Who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights that became a precedent for the bill of rights?

Answer 37

George mason

Question 38

in the aftermath of the revolution:

Answer 38

some Americans hoped that the political changes would lead to other reforms.

Question 39

Thomas Jefferson’s Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom:

Answer 39

ended the Anglican Church’s position as the official, tax supported church of Virginia.

Question 40

During and in the years following the Revolution:

Answer 40

thousands of African Americans who fought with the British were forced to flee the country
Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Rhode Island passed gradual emancipation laws
and the free black population of Virginia grew to more than 20,000