Social Science Test Flashcards
1: The Continental Congress did NOT…
levi taxes
2: What was the significance of the Battle of the Combahee River?
exemplified small-scale combat after the British formally ended major offensive operations
3: Who said, “We are all republicans, We are all federalists”?
Thomas Jefferson
4: Which tribe was NOT a member of the IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY
the Wampanoag
5: Which political body seemed to parallel America’s Continental Congress?
the French National Assembly
6: True/False-
plantation owners, lawyers, merchants and farmers all supported the american patriots.
true
7: Order the following in correct chronological order-
- Stamp Act, the Boston Tea Party, the Boston Massacre, the Townshend Acts
- Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, the Boston Massacre, and the Boston Tea Party
8: Why did Hamilton include a “whisky tax” in his financial plan approved by the house of representatives?
to eliminate Revolutionary war debt
9: Meaning of secret phrase conveyed by hanging lanterns in the church’s steeple of the Old North Church “one if my land, two if by sea”
british plan of approach into Lexington and Concord to seize supplies and capture leaders.
10: Where did the first enslaved African Americans arrive in future US?
Port Comfort, Virginia
All of the following were features of Shay’s Rebellion EXCEPT it
was largely urban
Of the groups listed below, which one BEST represents the primary group at odds with British soldiers in Boston in March 1770?
young, poor, laboring men
During the Confederation Congress, the Federalists were sometimes called the
Nationalists
The Age of Revolutions witnessed a global decline in the number of
absolutist monarchies
In winter 1776, George Washington’s troops at Morristown were inoculated against
smallpox
How did Congressional delegates achieve consensus in the creation and passage of the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union?
They created a limited national government with clearly delineated powers
Who led the American delegation that negotiated the Treaty of Greenville of 1795?
Anthony Wayne
Which four diplomats represented the United States in Paris to negotiate the end of the Revolutionary War?
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and Henry Laurens
Which group in western Massachusetts was especially angered by the increase in property taxes in 1786 and modeled their revolt on the Patriot resistance to Britain’s high taxes and unresponsive government?
farmers
Which two countries signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce in 1778?
America and France
From which two groups did the Native American scouts of Anthony Wayne’s forces derive?
Miami and Choctaw
When the representatives of seven American legislatures met at the Albany Congress in 1754, their main topic of debate was….
the relations with the French and Native American tribes
For what is Richard Allen famous?
He founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church
With delegates at the Continental Congress in mind, why did John Adams select Thomas Jefferson to create the first draft of the Declaration of Independence
Adams believed delegates were more likely to unite behind a Virginian.
How did the Siege of Charleston end on May 12, 1780
in the unconditional surrender of American troops
What did Christopher Monk, James Caldwell, Samuel Gray, Crispus Attucks, and Samuel Maverick have in common?
They were killed by the British at the Boston Massacre.
Which two groups of Americans were the largest beneficiaries of the American Revolution?
yeoman farmers and urban artisans
How did women play pivotal roles during the Revolutionary War?
women prepared tea substitutes, women wove their own homespun cloth, women maintained farms, women ran businesses
Where did the first US Congress meet in March 1789?
in New York’s Federal Hall
In which area of the world was the global conflict of the Seven Years’ war NOT front?
Southern Africa
