For those Loyalists who remained in the United States after the war, hostility toward them proved to be long and intense.
a. true
b. false
Ans: b. false
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In its decision in McCulloch v. Maryland, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:
a. Catholics could not be barred from political office. b. the Indians were not allowed to sue the federal government. c. the American System was unconstitutional. d. states could nullify federal laws with congressional permission. e. the Second Bank of the United States was constitutional.
Many Whigs in Britain hoped for an American victory in the War for Independence because they
a. favored French domination of North America. b. were strongly pacifist. c. feared that if George III triumphed, his rule at home might become tyrannical. d. rejected colonialism. e. opposed the mercantilist system.
On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly the same number of slaves lived in the West Indies as in the mainland southern colonies, even though five times more slaves were imported into the West Indies. Why?
A) Slaves in the West Indies ran away more often than did southern slaves. B) Fewer slaves survived the brutal working conditions in the West Indies. C) Most slaves in the West Indies were brought to the South after they reached age twenty-five. D) Fertility rates were about the same in both regions.
The Pequot War
A) found the Mohegans and the Naragansetts in alliance with the English settlers against the Pequots in New England. B) horrified the Narragansetts because of the mass annihilation practices of the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay. C) was precipitated by a Pequot Indian attack on a western Massachusetts Bay town. D) arose partly because the Massachusetts Bay Puritans never had a trading relationship with the Pequots of the Connecticut River Valley.