How revolutionary was the revolution

Question 1

Small states worried about AOC

Answer 1

ML NJ D worried about whether they will be faced with an equal burden of paying for war- should they pay less?

Slow at agreement

Question 2

What did large states want

Answer 2

Proportional representation

Question 3

What did small states want

Answer 3

1 vote per state

Question 4

What did northern states want

Answer 4

To count the southern states slave population when determining the ratio for how much funding each state would provide for congress

Question 5

What is popular sovereignty

Answer 5

The idea that political power should be held by the people

Question 6

Congress central powers

Answer 6

Declare war. Raise an army. Request money from states to fund it. Settle boundary disputes. Run the post office.

Question 7

State powers

Answer 7

Make laws. Raise taxes. Regulate trade.

Question 8

Was this aim achieved?: A political system which would allow the USA to win the war

Answer 8

Yes. There are problems such as couldn’t levy taxes to wage war but they did win due to British failures

Question 9

Was this aim achieved?: popular sovereignty

Answer 9

Yes/ partial

Lower property qualifications to vote/hold office= new men. However slaves and women not considered

Question 10

Was this aim achieved?: Limit the powers of central government

Answer 10

Yes due to state powers but this is not always helpful as it dissolves unity

Question 11

Was this aim achieved?: create unity between the states

Answer 11

No- Colonies took longer to accept the terms and there is no unity between groups of people

Question 12

Was this aim achieved?: Outline the roles of Congress and the states

Answer 12

Yes- Congress can request money from the states

Question 13

Economic change after war: currency

Answer 13

States print their own money that can be spent only in that state which causes inflation and issues regarding value matching among other states. Trading problems mean USA need a new currency

Question 14

Economic change after war: loyalists

Answer 14

The Loyalists who fled to Canada and Nova Scotia or the west Indies were all rich and so the American society became more equal

Question 15

Economic change after war: HISTORIAN HOWARD ZINN

Answer 15

The Continental Congress was dominated by rich men linked together in factions and compacts by business and family connections

Question 16

When did American lieutenant from Bunkerhill

Answer 16

I offered to enlist upon having a Lieutenant’s commission which was granted. As to the dispute between Great Britain and the colonies I know nothing of it
-joined for money

Question 17

Was there social change?: yes- hereditary

Answer 17

Most Americans opposed hereditary privilege- 2 states even forbade the creation of titles of nobility

Question 18

Was there social change?: yes- new men

Answer 18

Entered legislatures and challenged supremacy of old elite

Question 19

Was there social change?: yes- army

Answer 19

Many ordinary Americans became officers in the Continental Army and militia units

Question 20

Was there social change?: yes- indentured servants

Answer 20

Almost disappeared- freedom through military service

Question 21

Was there social change?: no- loyalist

Answer 21

Only the Loyalist component of society changed old colonial aristocracy survived

Question 22

Was there social change?: no- land

Answer 22

General pattern of landholding remained unchanged

Question 23

Was there social change?: no- indentured

Answer 23

Indentured service had been declining before the war

Question 24

Was there social change?: no- left out

Answer 24

The war had a limited effect on slavery and the status of women

Question 25

Was there social change?: no- farmers

Answer 25

America remains a land of self-sufficient farmers

Question 26

Slavery in the north

Answer 26

In New England slaves make up 3% of the population

1771 Massachusetts assembly ban slave trade with Africa Rhode Island and Connecticut do the same in 1774 due to ideological principles of equality

Question 27

Slavery in the north what happened Once Cotton became profitable crop in the 1790s

Answer 27

Demand for slaves increased and more slaves were imported in the north than during any other period in colonial times

Question 28

Slavery in the south South Carolina

Answer 28

Slaves make up 42% of the population

Question 29

Slavery in the south 1783 Maryland

Answer 29

Band partition in transatlantic slave trade this was not due tomorrow as it was to maintain the value of their slaves

Question 30

Slavery in the south manumission laws 1783

Answer 30

Many slave owners only free slave children

Question 31

Slavery in the south 1782 to 1810 the number of three black people in Virginia

Answer 31

Rose from 2000 to 30,000

Question 32

Evidence that slaves got better conditions

Answer 32

Most slaves who fought against Britain were given freedom at the end of army service. More movement of antislavery

Question 33

Evidence that slave stay the same

Answer 33

Majority of slaves remain slaves. Northern movement was slow which allowed slaveholders to sell their slaves in the south

Question 34

George Washington quote on the articles of Confederation

Answer 34

Limping half starved animal

Question 35

Women and the revolution: Phillis Wheatley

Answer 35

Argued her freedom from slavery
Wrote poetry and read to George Washington
First black woman to have a book published

Question 36

Women and the revolution: mercy Otis warren

Answer 36

Political writer and propagandist

Criticising the articles of Confederation

Question 37

Women and the revolution: molly pitcher

Answer 37

Unknown if she was one woman or a representation of many women who helped during the war of independence

Question 38

Women and the revolution: Woman serving in the military forces

Answer 38

20,000 women served in the military forces but as cooks launderettes and prostitutes

Question 39

Women and the revolution: men away

Answer 39

When their husbands were away they could assert greater power but when they returned so that their behaviours and domestic roles they are not allowed to vote or hold public office

Question 40

Women and the revolution: Abigail

Answer 40

Discussion of Abigail Adams and John Adams men are tyrants

Question 41

Native Americans: Citizenship

Answer 41

When Britain left as well as losing land the natives were excluded from the rights of citizenship

Question 42

Native Americans: line

Answer 42

With the British gone the proclamation line was gone. Some tribes resisted in the north-west armed by Britain they proved an obstacle to American settlement

Question 43

Native Americans: fort stanwix NY and Hopewell SC

Answer 43

In 1784 the USA concluded treaties were it won concessions of land from the Iroquois, Choctaws, Chickasaws and Cherokees

Question 44

Religious tolerance

Answer 44

All the New England states except Rhode Island continued to require taxpayers to support public protestant worship

Question 45

After 1775 nine states prohibited what

Answer 45

Established Churches it would become a private matter

Question 46

What did the 1786 Jeffersons act for establishing religious freedom do

Answer 46

Prohibited all forms of state intervention in religious affairs