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Exercise for Revolutionary Period I Blank filling 1 The War of Independence lasted eight years till ____. (1783) 2 The United States of America was founded in ____. (1783) 3 Franklin also edited the first colonial magazine, which he called ____. (the General Magazine) 4 Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece ____. (Autobiography) 5 Thomas Paine, with his natural gift for pamphleteering and rebellion, was appropriately born into an age of ____. (Revolution) 6 On January 10, 1776, Paine’s famous pamphlet ____ appeared. (Common Sense) 7 A series of sixteen pamphlets by Paine was entitled ____. (The American Crisis) 8 Paine’s second most important work ____ was an impassioned plea against hereditary monarchy. (The Rights of Man) 9 The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was ____. (Philip Freneau) 10 Philip Freneau’s famous poem ____ was written about his imprisoned experience. (The British Prison Ship) 11 ____ was considered as the “poet of the American Revolution”. (Philip Freneau) 12 ____ has been called the “Father of American Poetry”. (Philip Freneau) 13 In 1791, probably with Jefferson’s support, ____ established in Philadelphia the National Gazette. (Philip Freneau) 14 In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of ____ and Revolution. (Reason) II Decide whether the statements are True of False. 1 The War of Independence lasted for eight years and ended in the formation of a Federative bourgeois democratic republic, that is, the United States of America. (T) 2 The War for Independence was a revolution, but it was the bourgeoisie that reaped its fruits. The rulers of the new state were hostile to the laboring people. (T) 3 At the initial period the spread of ideas of the American Enlightenment was largely due to journalism. (T) 4 Franklin seemed to represent the age of reason and revolution in his paradoxical faith in both social order and in natural rights, in love of stability and devotion to revolutionary change. (T)