List one way Americans protested against Britain and the king before the Revolutionary War.
Question 16
16.
List one thing Americans were so mad about that they felt they needed to fight a war to gain their independence.
Question 17
17.
List one thing you remember about the battles fought in the Revolutionary War.
Question 18
18.
In one-three sentences, say what you think makes people want to revolt against authority the way Americans revolted against the British government in the 1770s.
The main author of the Declaration of Indepdence was
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Gouvernor Morris
The Declaration of Independence was adopted on
4th July 2005
2nd August 1776
4th July 1776
12th October 1492
The Declaration of Independence said, " . . . all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are _________, ____________ and ______________."
property, voting and money
privacy, speech and religion
wealth, happiness and prosperity
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
The signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged to each other their
lives, fortunes and sacred honor.
privacy, lives and ammunition.
property, wealth and liberty.
equalty, ships and honor.
When listing their reasons for separating from Britain, the colonists blamed
Louis XIV
Henry VIII
George III
Washington I
The main purpose for the Declaration of Independence was
to declare the independence of the American colonies.
to plead with King George III to forgive the colonies for rebelling against the Stamp Act.
to ask the French government to help the colonies fight the British.
to declare the loyalty of the colonies to King George III
Anti-British feelings among the colonists grew more intense because of Paul Revere's engraving of the
Boston Massacre.
Intolerable Acts.
Liberty affair.
Boston Tea Party.
Who was the author of Common Sense?
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Which colonists wanted to fight the British for American independence?
Loyalists
Patriots
Fence-sitters
Nationalists
Which colonists wanted to stay loyal to Britain?
Loyalists
Patriots
Fence-sitters
Nationalists
Due to General Washington's strategy, British General Cornwallis was defeated at the
Battle of Boston.
Battle of Chesapeake.
Battle of Yorktown.
Battle of Savannah.
The British recognized the United States as an independent nation in the
Treaty of the United States, 1776.
Treaty of Great Britain, 170.
Treaty of Paris, 1783.
Treaty of America, 1754.
Which European country gave the greatest amount of help to the United States during the Revolutionary War?