Early Days
Which country officially joined the American cause as an ally in 1778 after the Battle of Saratoga?
A) Spain
B) French
C) the Dutch
B) French
As the war drug on, the Americans became (more/less) unified.
Less
By 1780, the British had turned most of their military attention to _______?
A) New England
B) the South
C) the Frontier
B) the South
Which founding father is credited with writing the AOC?
A) Ben Franklin
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) Roger Sherman
D) John Dickinson
D) John Dickinson
Which city hosted the 1788 Constitutional Convention?
A) New York
B) Philadelphia
C) Boston
B) Philadelphia
Which of these did Congress NOT DO in 1778 to raise a more disciplined army and to increase elistment?
A) Increase lashes for punishment to 100
B) Promise cash bonuses for 3 year enlistees
C) Promise land grants for enlistees that lasted the whole war
D) Increased whiskey rations for each soldier
D) Increased whiskey rations for each soldier
As much as _________ of the American white population chose the British side, and another third or more remained neutral or disaffected at different junctures of the war.
A) 1/3
B) 2/5
C) 3/4
A) 1/3
Much of Clinton’s New York army (British) would sail to ________, take it, and dispatch loyalists to pacify the countryside.
A) Charleston, SC
B) Savannah, GA
A) Charleston, SC
Which year were the AOC ratified?
A) 1779
B) 1781
C) 1783
B) 1781
Which founding father was famously not present for the Constitutional Convention?
A) Ben Franklin
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) George Washington
B) Thomas Jefferson
On which holiday did GW famously cross the Delaware River to surprise the Hessians at Trenton, NJ?
A) New Year's Eve
B) Christmas
D) July 4th
B) Christmas
As the war persisted, natives also increasingly joined the ________.
A) British
B) Americans
A) British
The first major British setback in the Deep South was ________.
A) King's Mountain
B) Cowpens
C) Yorktown
A) King's Mountain
Under the AOC, each colony had _____ vote(s) in Congress.
A) 1 vote
B) the amount depended on the population of each colony
A) 1 vote
Which fraction was used to count the slave population so as to not give Southern states *too much* power in Congress?
A) 1/2
B) 3/5
C) 2/3
B) 3/5
Durin the war what did Ben Franklin wear, in Europe, to court foreign help?
A) a crown
B) fur hat
C) powdered wig
B) Fur hat
The most notorious of these war ships, the ________, exposed American prisoners to inhuman crowding, poor ventilation, and severe want of food and clothing. In total, about 18,000 men languished on British prison ships during the war, and at least 8,500 died—a nearly 50 percent mortality rate.
A) Carolina
B) Jersey
C) Plymouth
B) Jersey
Francis Marion became a heroic leader on the colonial side and was given the nickname of ________.
A) Swamp Shooter
B) Swamp Fox
C) Swamp Dog
B) Swamp Fox
In order to amend any part of the AOC, the proposed change had to have _____% support.
A) 51%
B) 75%
C) 100%
The __________ Compromise blended the VA and NJ plans, setting us up with the bicameral system we have today.
A) Massachusetts
B) Rhode Island
C) Connecticut
C) Connecticut
Which American city was the first to face a full scale invasion by the British?
New York City
Which racial term, used today and not seen as inappropriate, came from hunters, disdained by easterners as “near savages,” secured their identity as “______” (a fairly new term) by killing Indians.
Whites
The fighting essentially ended in October 1781 in which colony?
Virginia
The single greatest weakness of the AOC was....
Congress did not have the power to tax
Antifederalists (those opposed to ratifying the Constitution) mostly wanted to see ______ added before giving consent.
Bill of Rights