How did the Revolutionary War affect African Americans, women, and Indians?
What will be an ideal response?
Better students will see a mixture of results in each case. African Americans benefited from a trend toward emancipation in the North and private manumissions in the South. On the other hand, slavery was not abolished in the South. The ideology of republican motherhood provided women with a public role, albeit one that also reinforced their traditional role as subordinates. Indians lost a valuable British ally and clearly fared the worst of these three groups.
You might also like to view...
George Kennan’s “Mr X” article led to the US strategy of:
a) appeasement; b) containment; c) détente; d) rollback.
What did advice George Washington offer to the nation in his Farewell Address?
a. That the United States avoid permanent alliances with other nations b. That Americans jealously guard the Bill of Rights from assaults by Federalists c. That the United States revise its alliance with France to make it more equal d. That Americans avoid the formation of permanent political parties e. That future presidents retain the cabinet system
Which of the following did the Turner Thesis assert?
A) The presence of the western frontier had created obstacles to the development of democracy and capitalism. B) White Christian Americans stood at the top of civilization. C) The financial panics of the 1870s and the 1890s were the result of the underproduction of goods. D) Americans might require a new frontier in order to ensure the survival of the nation's democracy. E) Blacks needed to be separated from whites in public transport.
A common defense of the institution of slavery by slave owners was that __________.
A. slaves were treated better than northern industrial workers B. slaves were becoming Christianized and thus their souls would be saved C. slave children played with white children D. slaves lived better on southern plantations than the natives in Africa