1 created to efficiently communicate with other colonies how the new taxes were a violation of English civil liberties without representation in Parliament.
Question options:
Committee of Correspondence
House of Burgesses
Mayflower Compact
Treaty of Paris of 1763
2This made France surrender its claim to all the land east of the Mississippi River except New Orleans.
Question options:
Treaty of Paris 1783
Treaty of Paris 1763
Proclamation of 1763
3 Navigation Acts
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To avoid conflict with Indians, this law attempted to prevent any more American colonists from setting West of Appalachian Mountains.
Question options:
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Treaty of Paris of 1783
Proclamation of 1763
Stamp Act of 1765
4 Question
This short work was published as a rationale for independence from England.
Question options:
Common Sense
Proclamation of 1763
Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Paris 1763
Question 5
These were punishment laws for the Boston Tea Party.
Question 8 options:
Tea Act
Intolerable Acts
Proclamation of 1763
Treaty of Paris 1783
Question 6
British philosopher who believed all people are born with certain rights regardless of status.
Question 6 options:
John Locke
Baron de Montesquieu
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Thomas Jefferson
Question 7
Concept where people give the government its power and in return the government gives the people defense and protection of their natural rights.
Question 7 options:
Committee of Five
Common Sense
Great Compromise
Social Contract Theory
Question 8
He was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Question 8 options:
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Samuel Adams
Question 12 (1 point) Question 12 Unsaved
He was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Question 12 options:
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Samuel Adams
Question 13 options:
intolerable acts
natural rights
Common Sense
limited government
Question 14 (1 point) Question 14 Unsaved
What was the name of the group of the five delegates who wrote a rationale for independence?
Question 14 options:
House of Burgesses
Sons of Liberty
Committee of Correspondence
Committee of Five
Question 15 (1 point) Question 15 Unsaved
He was instrumental in gaining France as an ally for the colonies during the American Revolution.
Question 15 options:
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
George Washignton
Marquis de Lafayette
Question 16 (1 point) Question 16 Unsaved
He developed an excellent military reputation in the French and Indian War and was appointed Commander in Chief of Continental Army in 1775.
Question 16 options:
George Washington
John Adams
Baron von Steuben
Marquis de LaFayette
Question 17 (1 point) Question 17 Unsaved
He was an American ambassador who secured the formal recognition of the United States and a substantial financial loan from the Dutch.
Question 17 options:
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
John Adams
Baron von Steuben
Question 18 (1 point) Question 18 Unsaved
He was instrumental in the American Revolution for teaching close-order drill critical for the maneuver and fire tactics of eighteenth century warfare.
Question 18 options:
Marquis de Lafayette
Baron von Steuben
George Washington
John Adams
Question 19 (1 point) Question 19 Unsaved
Frenchman who believed in the American cause and volunteered to serve with Washington and helped secure French resources.
Question 19 options:
Baron von Steuben
Benjamin Franklin
Marquis de Lafayette
John Adams
Question 20 (1 point) Question 20 Unsaved
This is where Washington's skill at maintaining his force under difficult conditions was best seen.
Question 20 options:
Yorktown
Trenton
Saratoga
Valley Forge
