Was the American Revolution revolutionary?

Women

100

Name at least one outspoken woman during the Revolutionary era

Mercy Otis Warren 

Abigail Adams

Judith Sargent Murray

200

This term describes how married women had no rights outside of their husbands. Their legal and monetary stati were tied to their husbands

Coverture

300

What was John Adams response to his wife, Abigail Adams, when she pressed him to give more rights to “the ladies”?

Appalled she would even ask for more rights for women: "Depend on it, We know better than to repeal our Masculine systems."

400

What was the role/goal behind the idea of "Republican motherhood"?

To educate their sons to be good citizens

500

Who could vote in New Jersey according to their 1776 state Constitution? 

property owning men and women who have lived in the state 12+ months

Indigenous Peoples and Slaves

100

Describe the population trend of those enslaved in the United States from 1790 (right after the Revolution) to 1860. 

increased

200

Who did most Native Americans side with during the Revolutionary War?

The British

300

What was the biggest contradiction from the Declaration of Independence (something allowed in the new country)

slavery

400

What was the Gnadenhutten massacre? 

96 Native Americans were murdered

500

What was  Thomas Jefferson's solution to issues of slavery in the new United States? 

kick them out/send them back

Ideas & Rights

100

What was the philosophical movement called that spurred the ideas/rhetoric behind the American Revolution?

the Enlightenment

200

What were some of the most Democratic states in the new United States? 

Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, or New Jersey work

300

What were some the least Democratic states in the new United States? 

South Carolina and Maryland

400

Who wrote "Common Sense"? A pamphlet outlining reasons why it was "common sense" for the colonies to be independent 

Thomas Paine

500

List two of Benjamin Franklin's 13 virtues for "character development"

1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ’d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.
11. TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
12. CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dulness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.
13. HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

European Americans/Colonists

100

What type of government did the "founding fathers" create? 

a republic 

200

What did "all men" have the right to according to the Declaration of Independence? 

life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

300

Describe the backgrounds/demographics "founding fathers" and first political leaders of the United States. 

older, white men. Typically wealthy planters or businessmen of the colonies

400

Who started Shays Rebellion? 

farmers (most of them who fought in the Revolution) angry against the taxes in Mass.

500

According to the "Rule of Naturalization" in the Nationality Act of 1790, who was eligible to be a United States Citizen?

white people who lived here for at least 2 years (can include "of good character" if they want but don't have to)

Miscellaneous

100

Name one place where a Revolution spread to after the American Revolution 

too many to list.. look at map

200

Who was President under the Articles of Confederation?

nobody.

300

What was one thing that the Articles of Confederation succeeded in doing? 

Land Ordinances/creating new states

(outlawed slavery in new, Northern territories)

400

What was the line called that Great Britain said the colonists/white settlers could not cross after the French and Indian War?

Proclamation of 1763

500

What is the term for when slaveholders willingly freed their slaves during/after the Revolution?

manumissions