What advantages did the colonists enjoy at the outset of the Revolution?
What will be an ideal response?
The British had a number of important advantages that students should address, but the Americans could rely on some as well. Among the most important would be knowledge of the territory. Students should discuss how fighting on home ground made it easier for the colonists to succeed. Students should also examine how much support the patriots had and how that varied from place to place. A good essay should also examine the population distribution of the colonies and point out how the British could not control the vast territory without an enormous army. Finally, good students should understand that General Washington did not have to win the war; he needed only to avoid losing.
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A) chief minister of Holland. B) major Protestant commander in the Thirty Years? War. C) leading Catholic general in the Thirty Years? War. D) ousted king of Bohemia. E) Austrian heir to the throne.
In the peace talks that ended World War I, Germany:
A. was forced to accept terms dictated by the victors. B. negotiated a few minor concessions. C. negotiated several major concessions. D. retained the right to station troops west of the Rhine River. E. gained about as much as it lost.
The irony of the League of Nations is that
A) although Wilson proposed it, the United States never joined. B) once Russia joined, it became a Bolshevik propaganda tool. C) although formed by Europeans, it had it greatest success in non-European areas. D) it became a military threat to member states who had supported it to promote peace. E) none of the Allied victors would join it.
To the religious tensions that contributed to the Thirty Years' War were added the factor(s) of
A) foreign intervention. B) widespread peasants' and workers' revolts. C) invasion by papal troops. D) the Turkish sieges of Vienna, Prague, and Augsburg. E) dynastic rivalries and tensions between rulers.