American Pageant Ch 8 Lesson

Multiple Choice

When did the Second Continental Congress Meet?

• May 10, 1775

• July 3, 1776

• July 4, 1776

• April 8, 1775

Multiple Choice

Who was named as the leader of the Continental Army?

• John Adams

• Benedict Arnold

• George Washington

• Alexander Hamilton

Open Ended

Explain the Olive Branch Petition. What did it do? What did it not do?

Open Ended

The main point of the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence was to

Open Ended

According to the video, the MAIN INTENDED audience of the Declaration was______. How does Heimler prove this point?

Multiple Choice

The idea of Natural Rights came from which Enlightenment Philospher?

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Rosseau

Multiple Choice

According to the Declaration, where does the government receive its power from?

• Government

• God

• Constitution

• Citizens

Open Ended

Explain Social Contract Theory

Open Ended

What events/battles occurred after the Olive Branch Petition? Which one was most significant? Why?

Multiple Choice

Which one of our founders convinced France to help out the colonists?

• George Washington

• King Louis XVII

• Ben Franklin

• Thomas Paine

Open Ended

How did Lafyette support American colonists?

Open Ended

Why did Washington's soldiers refer to Marquis de Lafayette as "the soldiers friend"?

Multiple Choice

How does Washington "trick" Clinton's British troops into staying in New York?

• Washington burns down New York

• Washington "loses" fake plans and sets up fake camps near New York

• • The French navy blocks the harbors

  
  

Multiple Choice

Yorktown is known as a "siege" because a siege is 

• 
  

  a military strategy to surround the enemy and cut off supplies

• 
  

  a military strategy to hide and ambush using surprise attacks

• a military strategy to attack by both land and water at the same time

Multiple Choice

What cowardly thing did Cornwallis do?

• Meet with Rochambeau to determine surrender terms instead of with Washington

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  Say he was too sick to surrender in person

• 
  

  Refuse to give up his troops' swords

Multiple Choice

What document officially ends the war in 1783?

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Yorktown

• Treaty of Ghent

• Treaty of France