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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does General Washington respond to families, such as the Van Hornes, who pledge allegiance to the king?
2. What is the overall goal of the British in America?
3. The American troops are given how many days' advance notice to get supplies and weaponry together to create the element of surprise in their attack on Trenton?
4. What is the title of Thomas Paine's second pamphlet?
5. An illness tears through the troops that fight against the Americans during the summer of what year in the latter half of the 1770s?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who are the British military's Howe brothers?
2. From what source do the Hessians draw their troops?
3. As the winter of 1776 approaches, what view do the British develop regarding the American Revolution?
4. How does the British military approach training?
5. What does Thomas Paine seek to change with his second pamphlet, entitled "The American Crisis," in November 1776?
6. How does George Washington fare in Manhattan in 1776?
7. Why is it in this chapter, "The Crisis," that the author mentions that some people refer to George Washington as a dictator?
8. What is General William Howe's view regarding the British chances of defeating the American rebels following the Battle of Bunker Hill?
9. What does General Cornwallis instruct his troops to do in New Jersey?
10. How does the British pacification policy run into problems arising from problems of supply?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How do American rebel forces behave as they retreat across New Jersey? In what type of confrontations do they engage their enemy? Against what odds are the Americans fighting? What is the British impression of this?
Essay Topic 2
How does the British pacification policy fare in the Colonies? What types of problems are encountered? From where do these problems originate? How do the British troops remedy these problems? How common is it for the British troops to forage for supplies? How big does the problem become? How successful are the Howe brothers in deterring their troops and gaining compliance with the rules?
Essay Topic 3
How do the Americans prevail at Princeton? Of what do they maintain control that keeps the British from fleeing and reinforcements from arriving? How difficult is the battle? Where do the Americans stand following the battles at Trenton and Princeton?
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