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30 Cards in this Set
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From 1776 to 1807 women were legally allowed to vote in New Jersey.
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True
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Many women who entered public debate felt the need to apologize for their forthrightness.
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True
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Confiscated property of Loyalists was returned to them following the Treaty of Paris.
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False
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The years following independence saw the emergence of free black communities, especially in the northern states.
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True
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Militias did much to promote the expansion of political democracy in revolutionary America.
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True
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In eighteenth century America the idea of "compassionate" marriage included the notion that men and women would marry voluntarily and live in a mutual, affectionate relationship.
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True
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While not granted to many Americans, by 1776 suffrage was often considered, in the United States, to be synonymous with freedom.
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True
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Indian tribes who stayed neutral during the Revolution ended up better off than those who took sides.
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False
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Advertisements for runaway slaves were rare in the early republic.
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False
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Initially, African-Americans saw the ideals of the Revolution as an opportunity to claim their freedom.
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True
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Some Americans employed the revolutionary language of equality on behalf of women’s rights.
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True
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Except in Vermont, property ownership was not a requirement for voting in the early Republic.
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False
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The authority of church leaders went remarkably unchallenged during the revolutionary era.
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False
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Indentured servitude went into rapid decline following national independence.
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True
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James Otis argued that black colonists were entitled to the same civil rights as any British subject.
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True
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By 1776, the year in which he wrote The Declaration of Independence with its famous phrase "all men are created equal," Thomas Jefferson owned more than 100 slaves.
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True
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Because of religious freedom an astonishing number of new religious denominations proliferated in the early republic; today more than 1,300 religions are practiced in the United States.
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True
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Evangelical Christians supported the separation of church and state following the American Revolution because they wanted to protect religion from the corrupting embrace of government.
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True
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At the end of war, as many as 100,000 Loyalists were banished from the United States or emigrated voluntarily.
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True
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Committed to freedom of conscience and thought, most patriots adopted a live-and-let-live attitude toward the Loyalists during the Revolutionary War.
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False
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Except for New York, all new states barred Jews from voting.
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True
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During the Revolution, Indians were divided in allegiance.
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True
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Few men considered women naturally submissive and irrational in Revolutionary Era America.
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False
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Deists and members of evangelical sects worked together to separate church and state.
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True
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By 1810, there were fewer free blacks than there had been in 1776.
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False
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While fighting in the American Revolution, Deborah Sampson extracted a bullet from her own leg to keep doctors from discovering her true identity.
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True
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Lucy Knox, the wife of General Henry Knox, wrote to her husband during the war that when he returned home he should not consider himself, "Commander in Chief of your own house, but be convinced that there is such a thing as equal command."
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True
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The Declaration of Independence elevated the principle of equality to a central place in the American conception of freedom.
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True
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There was a rapid rise in indentured servitude in the early republic.
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False
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Loyalists who did not leave the country were quickly integrated into American society.
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True
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