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Call to Freedom
Chapter 7 Stack #176909
| Question | Answer | 2nd Answer | 3rd Answer | 4th Answer | 5th Answer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Why was Common Sense popular? | Common Sense is popular because of both its message and its style. | Paine wrote as a common man to a common people. | Reached a wider audience than most other pamphlet writers of his day. | ||
| How many copies of Common Sense was bought? | Colonists bought around 120,000 copies within three months. | Sales throughout the colonies and Europe eventually reached some 500,000 copies. | |||
| Who was the wealthy person from France that allied with the Patriots during the Revolution? | The Marquis de Lafayette | ||||
| What was the advantages of British at the beginning of the war? | Has a great financial resources. | Maintained a large mighty military force. | Soldiers were mostly well-trained professionals. | Had "the most powerful navy in the history of the world." | |
| What was the Colonists' navy like? | No navy | No organized army. | Only had poorly trained local militias. | ||
| What was the advantages of the Colonists? | Most of the civilian population supported the Revolution throughout the war, even when enduring great hardship. | Citizens were mostly hostile to its presence. | British had to ship supplies across the Atlantic Ocean, which slowed down their war effort. | ||
| What is mercenaries? | Hired foreign soldiers. | ||||
| What was Washington's first job? | To raise troops. | ||||
| What was the colonists' policy about slaves being in the army? | Southerners opposed using black soldiers in the army, though they relied heavily on slave labor to fund the war. | Prohibited African Americans from serving in the Continental Army. | |||
| What did Washington do in response to Lord Dunmore's Proclamation? | Allowed free African Americans to enlist. | ||||
| Who is more successful in convincing the Native Americans to join their troops? | British | ||||
| Who is one of the most important allies for the British? | Thayendanegea (aka Joseph Brant) | ||||
| What did the women do to help the Patriots' troops? | Running farms and businesses while men were off fighting. | Help cook, clean, and, sew for the army. | Served as nurses, spies, or messengers. | Disguised themselves as men to fight in the war. | Raised money for supplies and organized sewing groups to make clothing. |
| What was an advantage of the long rifle? | A bullet from Long Rifle travel farther and with greater accuracy than a shot fire from a regular musket. | ||||
| Who always use the long rifle? | Riflemen | ||||
| Why did some Patriots want to fight a defensive war? | The army was short on supplies. | ||||
| What did some Patriots want to make Canada into? | The "14th colony." | ||||
| Who was the Hessians? | Mercenaries from the German state of Hesse hired to fight for the British. | ||||
| Who developed an alliance with the Patriots? | French | ||||
| What are three provisions of the Treaty of Paris of 1783? | Established British's recognition of the United States. | Laid out the new nation's borders: the Great Lakes to the north, the Mississippi River to the west, and 31° north latitude to the south. | British formally accepted American rights to settle and trade west of the original thirteen colonies. | ||
| What three things did the First Continental Congress accomplished? | Colonists continue to boycott British goods. | Warn their militias to be prepared in case violence did break out. | Assembled a carefully worded list of 10 resolutions, also known as the Declaration of Resolves, to present to King George III. | ||
| What three things did the Second Continental Congress accomplished? | Organize and fund a Continental Army to defend the colonies. | Delegates signed the Olive Branch Petition, a peace request named for the olive branch, a traditional symbol of peace, and deliver the petition to King George III. | Appointed a five-person committee to write the Declaration of Independence. | ||
| Who are the five person appointed to write the Declaration of Independence? | John Adams | Thomas Jefferson | Benjamin Franklin | Roger Sherman | Robert R. Livingston |
| Who wrote Common Sense? | Thomas Paine |
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