Chapter 6 Review

Freedom from another country's rule

• Independence
• Tyranny
• Common Sense

A document written to DECLARE that the American colonies are an INDEPENDENT nation, free from the British rule.

• Common Sense
• Olive Branch Petition
• The Declaration of Independence

At first, the colonists tried to write a formal _____ requesting peace (Olive Branch).

• Natural Rights
• Petition
• Declaration

Rights that are common to everyone, you are born with them.

• Natural Rights
• Independent rights
• Common Sense

He said, "Give me Liberty, or Give me Death!" and he was a Patriot!

• William Howe
• Patrick Henry
• John Adams

The British general at Bunker Hill

• Henry Knox
• William Prescott
• William Howe

He helped the militia by pulling cannons and lead on sleds from fort Ticonderoga, NY to Boston.

• Henry Knox
• Johnny Knoxville
• William Penn

Soldiers from all of the colonies banned together to form this army:

• The British Army
• The Continental Army
• The Hessians

This passage was removed from the Declaration of Independence because many of the colonies were just not ready for it yet:

• The slavery passage
• The Transcontinental Railroad passage
• The technology passage

Jefferson believed that the power to rule comes from _________________

• Him
• The king
• The people