6. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 6: Loyalists in the American Revolution

**Quiz for Document 6.2: Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America Impartially Stated (1776)**

Quiz for Document 6.2: Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America Impartially Stated (1776)

Document 6.2: Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America Impartially Stated (1776)

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Question 6.4

1. Which of the following summarizes the argument Charles Inglis makes for ending the war in his refutation of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense?

The colonists should end the war because King George is their father and governor and they should honor his judgment.

King George should end the war because the colonists are his children and he should protect them from harm.

The colonists should seek reconciliation with the crown because they benefit from its economic and military strength.

Both sides should seek reconciliation to protect their reputations as lovers of representative government.

Question 6.5

2. Inglis argues that it is important for Americans to maintain easy access to British imports because

Britain was the only country with manufacturing capabilities.

British goods were of the highest quality available.

British goods were the cheapest available.

Britain had access to manufactured goods from many other countries.

Question 6.6

3. Whereas Thomas Paine had argued in Common Sense. “The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ‘Tis time to part,” Inglis suggests that “the blood of the slain” and “the weeping voice of nature” send which of the following messages?

Britain must stop killing its own citizens.

Americans must go back to complying with British policies.

Those who worship the same God are sinning by killing one another.

Both Britons and Americans should resume their former friendship.

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