The American Revolution

The American Revolution

Let Freedom Ring

Multiple Choice

What does tabula rasa mean?

• clean slate

• dirty slate

• bad slate

• good slate

Multiple Choice

John Locke belongs to a group of writers who are known as what?

• Enlightenment thinkers

• Great Thinkers

• Philosophers Extraordinaire

• Revolutionary Men

Multiple Choice

What is the social contract?

• You give up some of your natural rights for protection

• You give up some of your protections to protect you natural rights

• There is no such thing

• You give up your natural rights and your protections

Multiple Choice

Which region would have been most uncomfortable with the Great Awakening?

• the New England colonies

• the Middle colonies

• the Southern colonies

• All of the colonies

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Who is the French and Indian War between?

Open Ended

Why did the British and the colonies reject Ben Franklin's plan?

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Who wins the French and Indian War?

Open Ended

Why would the colonists by unhappy about the Proclamation of 1763?

Open Ended

Do you agree or disagree with the speech in the video that you just watched? Why or why not?

Open Ended

What caused the colonies to revolt against Great Britain? Give at least 3 reasons.

Multiple Choice

Which of these was not an act included in the Coercive Acts?

• the Sugar Act

• the Quartering Act

• the Boston Port Act

• Administration of Justice Act

Multiple Choice

Which colony does not participate in the First Continental Congress?

• South Carolina

• Rhode Island

• Georgia

• New York

Open Ended

Would you have been a Patriot or a Loyalist? Why?

Multiple Choice

Who wrote the pamphlet "Common Sense"?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Paine

• James Madison

• Patrick Henry

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Based on the advantages and disadvantages, who was most likely to win the Revolutionary War?

Open Ended

Would you have survived at Valley Forge? Why or why not?

Open Ended

Why is the Virginia Declaration of Rights important?