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- 1. Multiple ChoiceDuring the initial period of fighting between April 1775 and July 1776, the colonists constantly insisted that their goal wasthe removal of all British troops from Americato restore their rights within the British Empirecomplete independence from Britainto end the arbitrary power of King George III to impose taxes on them
- 2. Multiple ChoiceGeorge Washington proved to be an especially effective commander of American forces in the Revolution becausehe was able to rally previously skeptical New Englanders to the Patriot causeof his exceptionally brilliant military mindof his eloquence in defining the political goals for which the Americans foughtof his integrity, courage and moral forcefullness
- 3. Multiple ChoiceGeorge Washington proved to be an especially effective commander of American forces in the Revolution becausehe was able to rally previously skeptical New Englanders to the Patriot causeof his exceptionally brilliant military mindof his eloquence in defining the political goals for which the Americans foughtof his integrity, courage and moral forcefullness
- 4. Multiple ChoiceThe bold American military strategy that narrowly failed in December 1775 involved a/antwo-pronged attack on British forces in New Jerseyinvasion of Canada by generals Arnold and Montgomeryattack on British forts in the Ohio countrynaval assault on British warships in Boston harbor
- 5. Multiple ChoiceMany of the German Hessian soldiers hired by King George III to fight for the Britishhated the American revolutionaries and their causewere ineffective in battle against the American militiamenhad little loyalty to the British cause and ended up desertinghelped recruit the numerous Germans in Pennsylvania to the Loyalist cause
- 6. Multiple ChoiceThomas Paine's appeal for a new republican form of government attracted many Americans becausethey believed that social class differences promoted by monarchy were wrongthey were impressed that Paine was drawing on the best classical ideas from Plato's Republicthey thy south were fearful that planters like Washington wanted to establish nobility in Americatheir own experience with local and colonial self-governance had prepared them for the idea that they did not need a monarch
- 7. Multiple ChoiceThe Declaration of Independence's proclamation that all governments everywhere should be based on universal human rights and consent of the people soon had an impact onthe movement to abolish the British monarchythe French Revolution and its Declaration of the Rights of ManThomas Jefferson's decision to emancipate his own slavesthe first attempts to create an international organization comparable to the United Nations
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following was NOT among the groups that produced large numbers of Loyalists?conservative and well-off Americansrecent immigrants from Scotland and IrelandPresbyterians and Congregationalistsmembers of the Anglican and Quaker churches
- 9. Multiple ChoiceBesides George Washington, the most militarily brilliant and effective American officer in the early campaigns of 1776 and 1777 was GeneralNathanael GreeneBenedict ArnoldWilliam HoweJohn Burgoyne
- 10. Multiple ChoiceThe Battle of Saratoga was a key turning point of the War for Independence because itprevented the British from keeping control of the key port of New York Citydemonstrated that the Americans could fight more than guerrilla warseffectively destroyed British military power in the middle coloniesfoiled the British attempt to isolate New England and it brought French assistance to the Revolutionary cause
- 11. Multiple ChoiceIn his successful negotiation of a military alliance with France, Benjamin Franklin attempted to personally representthe power of the new, continent-wide American republicthe American ideals of homespun simplicity and democratic social orderhis knowledge and status as a leading scientist on both sides of the Atlantichis skill as a political propagandist and coiner of wise, clever sayings
- 12. Multiple ChoiceThe British relied on the numerous Loyalists to aid them in fighting the Patriots especially inRhode Island and the rest of New Englandthe warfare at seathe CarolinasCanada
- 13. Multiple ChoiceMost of the Six Nations of the Iroquois under Joseph Brant fought for Britain against the American revolutionaries becausethey disagreed with the principals of the Declaration of Independencethey believe that a victorious Britain would contain westward American expansionthey were paid as mercenary soldiers by the British governmentthey hoped to drive the American colonists off the North American continent
- 14. Multiple ChoiceThe British defeat at Yorktown was brought about by George Washington's veteran Continental Army and theFrench navy under Admiral de GrasseAmerican navy under John Paul JonesAmerican militia under George Rogers Clarklocal Virginia militia
- 15. Multiple ChoiceIn the peace negotiations at Paris, the French wanted the new American republic tonegotiate a separate peace with Britainguarantee that they would not spread revolutionary ideas in Francehelp France regain Quebec from the Britishbe confined to the territory east of the Appalachian Mountains
- 16. Multiple ChoiceThe British yielded the Americans a generous peace treaty that included the western territories primarily because of thedesire of the weak Whig ministry in London for friendly future relations with the United Statesthreat of further war with Francemilitary power of the United Stateswillingness of the Americans to yield on other issues like trade and fishing rights
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