DLM(ASCP) EXAM ACTUAL EXAM 230 REAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH
RATIONALES|AGRADE (FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT,
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT, QUALITY MANAGEMENT)
1. What role did slaves play in the American Revolution? What was the significance
of Lord Dunmore's Proclamation? - ANSWER: • Brits: Lord Dunmore, VA's last royal
governor, promised freedom to all who rallied the King.
o Many slaves escaped to serve in British or Loyalist units.
o 12,000 slaves escaped south Carolina.
• Americans:
o RI promised freedom to slaves who would enlist
o In the south slaveholders opposed recruiting slaves even though they needed
soldiers
• British and Americans kept these promises sometimes
o British evacuated NYC in 1783, sailed over 3,000 slaves to Nova Scotia
o British expelled African Americans from the fort at Yorktown, to the mercy of the
Americans camped outside.
• Dunmore's proclamation
o fed colonists' fear of armed slave insurrections.
o Virginia convention proclamation: runaways would be pardoned if they returned in
10 days, severely punished if not. Reminded the penalty of insurrections "death
without benefit of clergy".
2. Describe the conditions facing Continental Army soldiers during the American
Revolution. Why did some soldiers mutiny? According to Samuel Dewees' account,
how did the Army suppress dissention in the ranks? - ANSWER: • Conditions:
shortages of supplies, 1/8 ration of food, sometimes no clothing, paid 5 months late,
soldiers paid onlit a bit of what they were owed, hard lodging, cold weather, fatigue,
illness (pox), dirty.
• Mutiny (revolt)
o Pennsylvania line at Morristown NJ, more than 1000 "mutinied"
• Their officers were paid, clothed, and fed well
• They were marched in rags w/o shoes, paid virtually nothing if at all, abused and
beaten, wanted out of the war.
o 1500 Pennsylvanians marched to Philly to protest Congress.
• Army suppression of dissention
o Washington had 2 of the most "atrocious offenders" court martialed, sentenced to
be shot, and their fellow mutineers had to carry out the executions.
o A sergeant was tied up and lashed, committed some trivial offense.
o The soldiers were ordered to beat up the prisoners (fellow troops)
o Dewees" 6 prisoners sentenced to death. Had to shoot each other and watch.
Every man ordered to look at the bodies as they passed.
, o Soldiers were then afraid to say or do anything. The men who were killed
committed offenses that seemed so trivial.
3. How did the Revolution change the status of American women? - ANSWER: •
Revolutionary ideals led women to question the subordination
• Elite women called for improved education
• A small # of women were able to use liberal divorce statutes to free themselves
from oppressive marriages
• Little altered women's social position- didn't alter family law
• Proper role as raising and educating good republican citizens
• In NJ women who were free and proper were able to vote, abolished soon.
• Revolution gave women the idea to think it was possible to take greater control of
their circumstances
• Women participated in protest movements, formed public organizations.
• Elite discussed politics within the home
4. "The Revolution raised more questions about equality and human rights than it
answered," Who Built America, p. 232. Discuss this point. - ANSWER: • The question
of slavery
o Colonists claimed they were enslaved by British but then they enslaved Africans.
Hypocritical.
o Many people in the North became opposed to slavery
• Alexander Hamilton released slaves.
• MA. Ruled that slavery went against constitution's "all men were created equal"
and abolished slavery
• The question of women.
5. What was the significance of Shay's rebellion? What were the political and
economic divisions between Massachusetts farmers and urban artisans and
merchants? - ANSWER: • Shay's Rebellion: Daniel Shays and other Massachusetts
farmers took arms and marched on the state gov't in Boston 1786.
• The farmers wanted debt and tax relief because the war disrupted the markets for
their products. Many sold their goods to the army for money (paper) which was
worthless at the time.
• The wealthier artisans and merchants crafted a gov't policy of hard currency, "free"
trade, and no tax/debt relief
• Gov't sent the MA militia to crush the rebels. Shays fled in exile. Other leaders of
the rebellion were executed for treason.
• The old notion that small communities could defend themselves against outsiders
no longer applied when the govt itself was theoretically of the ppl. To overturn
policies, ppl would have to organize and formally enter the political arena.
6. In the years after the ratification of the constitution, the newly formed United
States was a "People's Republic." Agree or disagree. - ANSWER: • Male property
owners had the right to vote, majority of the people could not. When property was
abolished, you still had to be white
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH
RATIONALES|AGRADE (FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT,
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT, QUALITY MANAGEMENT)
1. What role did slaves play in the American Revolution? What was the significance
of Lord Dunmore's Proclamation? - ANSWER: • Brits: Lord Dunmore, VA's last royal
governor, promised freedom to all who rallied the King.
o Many slaves escaped to serve in British or Loyalist units.
o 12,000 slaves escaped south Carolina.
• Americans:
o RI promised freedom to slaves who would enlist
o In the south slaveholders opposed recruiting slaves even though they needed
soldiers
• British and Americans kept these promises sometimes
o British evacuated NYC in 1783, sailed over 3,000 slaves to Nova Scotia
o British expelled African Americans from the fort at Yorktown, to the mercy of the
Americans camped outside.
• Dunmore's proclamation
o fed colonists' fear of armed slave insurrections.
o Virginia convention proclamation: runaways would be pardoned if they returned in
10 days, severely punished if not. Reminded the penalty of insurrections "death
without benefit of clergy".
2. Describe the conditions facing Continental Army soldiers during the American
Revolution. Why did some soldiers mutiny? According to Samuel Dewees' account,
how did the Army suppress dissention in the ranks? - ANSWER: • Conditions:
shortages of supplies, 1/8 ration of food, sometimes no clothing, paid 5 months late,
soldiers paid onlit a bit of what they were owed, hard lodging, cold weather, fatigue,
illness (pox), dirty.
• Mutiny (revolt)
o Pennsylvania line at Morristown NJ, more than 1000 "mutinied"
• Their officers were paid, clothed, and fed well
• They were marched in rags w/o shoes, paid virtually nothing if at all, abused and
beaten, wanted out of the war.
o 1500 Pennsylvanians marched to Philly to protest Congress.
• Army suppression of dissention
o Washington had 2 of the most "atrocious offenders" court martialed, sentenced to
be shot, and their fellow mutineers had to carry out the executions.
o A sergeant was tied up and lashed, committed some trivial offense.
o The soldiers were ordered to beat up the prisoners (fellow troops)
o Dewees" 6 prisoners sentenced to death. Had to shoot each other and watch.
Every man ordered to look at the bodies as they passed.
, o Soldiers were then afraid to say or do anything. The men who were killed
committed offenses that seemed so trivial.
3. How did the Revolution change the status of American women? - ANSWER: •
Revolutionary ideals led women to question the subordination
• Elite women called for improved education
• A small # of women were able to use liberal divorce statutes to free themselves
from oppressive marriages
• Little altered women's social position- didn't alter family law
• Proper role as raising and educating good republican citizens
• In NJ women who were free and proper were able to vote, abolished soon.
• Revolution gave women the idea to think it was possible to take greater control of
their circumstances
• Women participated in protest movements, formed public organizations.
• Elite discussed politics within the home
4. "The Revolution raised more questions about equality and human rights than it
answered," Who Built America, p. 232. Discuss this point. - ANSWER: • The question
of slavery
o Colonists claimed they were enslaved by British but then they enslaved Africans.
Hypocritical.
o Many people in the North became opposed to slavery
• Alexander Hamilton released slaves.
• MA. Ruled that slavery went against constitution's "all men were created equal"
and abolished slavery
• The question of women.
5. What was the significance of Shay's rebellion? What were the political and
economic divisions between Massachusetts farmers and urban artisans and
merchants? - ANSWER: • Shay's Rebellion: Daniel Shays and other Massachusetts
farmers took arms and marched on the state gov't in Boston 1786.
• The farmers wanted debt and tax relief because the war disrupted the markets for
their products. Many sold their goods to the army for money (paper) which was
worthless at the time.
• The wealthier artisans and merchants crafted a gov't policy of hard currency, "free"
trade, and no tax/debt relief
• Gov't sent the MA militia to crush the rebels. Shays fled in exile. Other leaders of
the rebellion were executed for treason.
• The old notion that small communities could defend themselves against outsiders
no longer applied when the govt itself was theoretically of the ppl. To overturn
policies, ppl would have to organize and formally enter the political arena.
6. In the years after the ratification of the constitution, the newly formed United
States was a "People's Republic." Agree or disagree. - ANSWER: • Male property
owners had the right to vote, majority of the people could not. When property was
abolished, you still had to be white
