American Revolution – Final Examination

Monday, May 11th, 8pm-11pm

Part I: You will be given eight of the following terms and asked to identify five of your choice. Note: words primarily defined in the Whiskey Rebellion book are noted (WR); in the constitutional debates (CD), in Wood on the American Revolution (AR), and in All Souls’ Rising (ASR). Remember the Afro-American lecture is on-line, and most of these words were covered in lecture. You will do this part of the exam first and without any books.

Iroquois Peoples (Native American lecture)

Stockbridge Indians (Native American lecture)

Sullivan’s Raid (Native American lecture)

Joseph Brant (Native American lecture)

Horatio Gates

Nathanael Greene

Battle of Saratoga (War in the North lecture)

Philadelphia Campaign (War in the North lecture)

Banastre Tarleton (War in the South lecture)

Cowpens (War in the South lecture)

Camden (War in the South lecture)

Yorktown (War in the South lecture)

Marion and Sumter (War in South, AR, Devil)

Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation (Afro-Am Lecture)

Boston King (Afro-Am Lecture)

Black troops (Afro-Am Lecture)

Articles of Confederation (AR)

Virginia Plan

New Jersey Plan (AR)

Shay’s Rebellion (AR)

James Madison (AR/CD)

Abolition (AR/lecture)

Sovereignty (AR/lecture)

Republicanism/virtue/equality (AR)

Whiskey Rebellion (WR)

Franklin (state of) (WR)

Paxton Boys (WR)

Hugh Henry Brackenridge (WR)

Alexander Hamilton (WR,CD)

John Neville (WR)

Saint Dominque (ASR/lecture)

Toussaint Louverture (ASR/lecture)

Société des Amis des Noirs (ASR/lecture)

Part II: you will have your choice of writing about either Madison Smartt Bell’s All Souls’ Rising or Thomas Slaughter's Whiskey Rebellion. I will pick one question from each pair and you can write on the one you wish (thus you do not have to read both books to address this part of the exam). You may use your books (including Stamp Act Crisis, if that question is selected) during this part of the examination.

II-A: All Souls' Rising -- one of the following two questions will be on the examination.

1. Explain who Riau, Choufleur, and Claudine Arnaud are. How does Smartt use his treatment of each of these character to represent a distinctive aspect of the conflicted situation in Saint Domingue in the early 1790s. OR:

2. How does African religion figure in the revolts? How does Christianity figure in the revolts? How do French ideological notions (“the rights of man”) figure in the revolt? Which of the three was most important?

II-B: Whiskey Rebellion -- one of the following two questions will be on the examination.

1. Compare and contrast the Whiskey Rebellion and protest against the Stamp Act -- you can use both books to do this part of the exam. OR:

2. Slaughter emphasizes the way in which backcountry fear of and racism toward Native Americans shaped the response to the federal excise tax. What connection do you see? Is Slaughter's presentation persuasive (do the vignettes that introduce many of his chapters help explain the politics of the protest)?

III. Using Wood and your knowledge of the Revolution from the lectures, you will have your choice of answering one of the following two questions. You may bring Wood to the exam and use it on this part of the exam.

1. Explain why the American patriots won their independence.

2. Access the cost of the American Revolution to Native Americans, African Americans, and loyalists.