Study Guide for VS 5

Front

"No Sugar Act", "No Tea Act", "No Stamp Act" these are all statements about?

Back

Taxation without representation

Front

The British and the Colonists disagreed on who should have legal authority within the colonies. How were their views different? Options: Women wanted Parliament to rule, British wanted Parliament to rule, British wanted people to rule, none of these

Back

British wanted Parliament to rule

Front

The British and the Colonists disagreed on who should have legal authority within the colonies. How were their views different? Colonists wanted the local assemblies to rule.

Back

Colonists wanted the local assemblies to rule.

Front

What did the Colonists and Parliament disagree over?

Back

How the colonists should be governed

Front

Why did the colonists decide to fight for independence?

Back

They felt they had the right to govern themselves

Front

Who provided leadership and expressed the reasons why the colonists wanted independence in the Declaration of Independence?

Back

Thomas Jefferson

Front

Which document explained the reasons for the Revolutionary War? Options: The Declaration of Independence, Virginia Studies book, Law book, none of these

Back

The Declaration of Independence

Front

Name of the governing body in England during the Revolutionary War?

Back

Parliament

Front

Who was an enslaved African American who spied on the British for the Continental Army?

Back

James Lafayette

Front

He also asked for his freedom at the end of the Revolutionary War?

Back

James Lafayette