Chapter 4 Self Quiz

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. The British navy made Britain's prosecution of the war __________.

rigid correct incorrect

flexible correct incorrect

limited to the northern colonies correct incorrect

slow correct incorrect

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. Which of these began to provide the U.S. with aid from 1777?

Britain and France correct incorrect

the Netherlands and France correct incorrect

Spain and Portugal correct incorrect

France and Spain correct incorrect

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. Which of these is illustrated by Burgoyne's army as it set out in June 1777?

The British were beginning to adapt to conditions in North America. correct incorrect

Burgoyne hoped to defeat the colonists on their own terms. correct incorrect

Burgoyne intended to follow British military tradition. correct incorrect

Speed would be the British strategy going forward. correct incorrect

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. Which of these were able to defeat British artillery?

riflemen correct incorrect

stockades correct incorrect

trenches correct incorrect

muskets correct incorrect

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. Saratoga was most important because it ________.

brought the French into the war on the U.S. side correct incorrect

was the first major Patriot victory correct incorrect

saw the defeat of Britain's Indian allies correct incorrect

was the end of Loyalist resistance to the Patriots' cause correct incorrect

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. How many soldiers did Washington command at Valley Forge?

100,000 correct incorrect

100 correct incorrect

1,000 correct incorrect

10,000 correct incorrect

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. The agreement to provide Continental Army officers half-pay for seven years is best seen as a ________.

victory for the officers correct incorrect

insult to the officers correct incorrect

compromise correct incorrect

defeat of the officers' goal correct incorrect

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. Which of these was the goal of the Newburgh Conspiracy?

replacing George Washington as commander of the Continental Army correct incorrect

making George Washington king of the rebels correct incorrect

passing informationto the Richard Howe and other British leaders correct incorrect

creating a Loyalist stronghold in the southern colonies correct incorrect

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. Which of these was NOT created in 1775?

the Continental Army correct incorrect

the Marine Corps correct incorrect

the First Continental Congress correct incorrect

the American navy correct incorrect

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. Which of these was made commander-in-chief of the Patriots' navy?

John Paul Jones correct incorrect

Esek Hopkins correct incorrect

Samuel Adams correct incorrect

John Sullivan correct incorrect

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. Privateers are essentially ________.

commanders of merchant fleets correct incorrect

freelance sailors correct incorrect

naval commanders correct incorrect

lawful pirates correct incorrect

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. Courted by both the British and the rebels, the ________ split.

Iroquois confederation correct incorrect

Huron tribe correct incorrect

French inhabitants of the Ohio Valley correct incorrect

Cherokee peoples correct incorrect

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. Which of these declared war on Britain in 1779?

France correct incorrect

the United States correct incorrect

the Netherlands correct incorrect

Spain correct incorrect

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. Which of these saw the worst U.S. defeat in the war and the war's largest surrender of U.S. troops?

West Point correct incorrect

Charleston correct incorrect

Saratoga correct incorrect

Yorktown correct incorrect

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. Which of these agreed to surrender West Point and George Washington to the British?

Benjamin Lincoln correct incorrect

Benedict Arnold correct incorrect

John Paul Jones correct incorrect

Philip Schuyler correct incorrect

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. At Cowpens, Daniel Morgan innovatively used ________.

muskets and rifles in tandem correct incorrect

Loyalists against Continentals correct incorrect

Continentals and militiamen together correct incorrect

French and American troops in combined columns correct incorrect

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. In 1781, the war came to focus primarily on what state?

New York` correct incorrect

Massachusetts correct incorrect

Virginia correct incorrect

South Carolina correct incorrect

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. Which of these surrendered to the Continentals at Yorktown in 1781?

Richard Howe correct incorrect

Joseph Paul de Grasse correct incorrect

William Washington correct incorrect

Charles Cornwallis correct incorrect

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. Which of these served as ambassador to France from 1777?

Thomas Jefferson correct incorrect

John Adams correct incorrect

George Washington correct incorrect

Benjamin Franklin correct incorrect

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. In what year did the U.S. gain independence from Britain?

1776 correct incorrect

1783 correct incorrect

1781 correct incorrect

1777 correct incorrect