Question 1
Which of the following complicated Washingtons efforts to defend New York City in 1776?
A) a series of slave revolts
B) the strength of Loyalist sentiment in the area
C) bad weather
D) an outbreak of smallpox among his men
Question 2
The British southern strategy rested on the assumption that __________.
A) loyalty to the crown remained strongest in the South
B) the North would offer only weak resistance
C) plantation crops were critical to the American economy
D) the Americans would engage in large-scale, traditional battles
Question 3
__________ took command of the British troops in Quebec in May 1776.
A) William Howe
B) Henry Clinton
C) Charles Cornwallis
D) John Burgoyne