Chapter 5 - The American Revolution

Thomas Jefferson

________, for example, came to view the Native Americans as "noble savages "uncivilized in their present state but redeemable if they were willing to adapt to the norms of white society.

Jefferson

________ gave the theory a more idealistic tone by replacing "property "with "the pursuit of happiness ..

George Washington

________ along with Count Jean Baptiste de Rochambeau and Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse set out to trap Cornwallis at Yorktown.

Africans

________ had constituted over 60 percent of the population in 1770; by 1790, that figure had declined to about 44 percent.

1784

The postwar depression, which lasted from ________ to 1787, increased the perennial American problem of an inadequate money supply, a problem that weighed particularly heavily on debtors.

Cornwalliss defeat

________ provoked outcries in England against continuing the war.

Jean Baptiste Rochambeau

Count ________: commander of the French expeditionary force in America.

1776

During the summer of ________, in the weeks immediately following the Declaration of Independence, the waters around New York City grew crowded with the most formidable military force Great Britain had ever sent abroad.

long Revolutionary War

The ________, which touched the lives of people in almost every region, naturally had a significant effect on American women.

American patriots

The triumph of the ________ in the Revolution contributed to the ultimate defeat of the Indian tribes.

Shays

________ issued a set of demands that included paper money, tax relief, a moratorium on debts, the relocation of the state capital from Boston to the interior, and the abolition of imprisonment for debt.

Revolutionary War

The Confederation itself had an enormous outstanding debt that it had accumulated at home and abroad during the ________.

Iroquois Confederacy

The ________ had declared itself neutral in the war in 1776, but not all its members were content to remain passive in the northern campaign.

Thomas Jefferson

The Ordinance of 1784, based on a proposal by ________, divided the western territory into ten self- governing districts, each of which could petition Congress for statehood when its population equaled the number of free inhabitants of the smallest existing state Indians and the Western Lands.

1776

On March 17, ________ (date still celebrated in Boston as Evacuation Day), the British departed Boston for Halifax in Nova Scotia with hundreds of Loyalist refugees.

Thomas Jefferson

________, a thirty- three- year- old delegate from Virginia, wrote most of the Declaration, with help from Benjamin Franklin and John Adams.