Chapter 65. Reflections on Domestic Insurrections, 1774–1775, Chapter 6

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Correct. The answer is b. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that the crisis in the American colonies accelerated in 1774–1775 as New England militiamen engaged with British soldiers in Massachusetts and enslaved men and women in the South embraced the rhetoric of liberty and sought to attain it.

Incorrect. The answer is b. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that the crisis in the American colonies accelerated in 1774–1775 as New England militiamen engaged with British soldiers in Massachusetts and enslaved men and women in the South embraced the rhetoric of liberty and sought to attain it.

Correct. The answer is d. The author supports her claim that units of minutemen were prepared to respond to any threat by British troops with the example of the violence in Lexington, Massachusetts on April 18, 1775. In this case, minutemen challenged British troops who were on their way to Concord to attack an ammunition storage site and the resulting violence caused the deaths of eight Americans.

Incorrect. The answer is d. The author supports her claim that units of minutemen were prepared to respond to any threat by British troops with the example of the violence in Lexington, Massachusetts on April 18, 1775. In this case, minutemen challenged British troops who were on their way to Concord to attack an ammunition storage site and the resulting violence caused the deaths of eight Americans.

Correct. The answer is c. The author demonstrates that the rhetoric and liberty had permeated many slaves’ consciousness and culture by the mid-1770s using writing by the Massachusetts slave Phillis Wheatley, who called attention to the hypocrisy of American slave owners who called for liberty even as they depended on the labor of enslaved people.

Incorrect. The answer is c. The author demonstrates that the rhetoric and liberty had permeated many slaves’ consciousness and culture by the mid-1770s using writing by the Massachusetts slave Phillis Wheatley, who called attention to the hypocrisy of American slave owners who called for liberty even as they depended on the labor of enslaved people.

Correct. The answer is a. According to the author, British leaders’ insistence that General Gage should arrest the major troublemakers in Massachusetts led directly to the outbreak of violence in Lexington and Concord in April 1775.

Incorrect. The answer is a. According to the author, British leaders’ insistence that General Gage should arrest the major troublemakers in Massachusetts led directly to the outbreak of violence in Lexington and Concord in April 1775.

Correct. The answer is d. The author suggests that it was the deepening military and political crisis in the colonies that spurred Lord Dunmore’s proclamation that promised freedom to slaves who would join his “Ethiopian Regiment” in Virginia.

Incorrect. The answer is d. The author suggests that it was the deepening military and political crisis in the colonies that spurred Lord Dunmore’s proclamation that promised freedom to slaves who would join his “Ethiopian Regiment” in Virginia.

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