4th Grade Social Studies People

Who inspired patriots from other colonies when he spoke out against the unfair British tax laws?

• George Washington
• Patrick Henry
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison

Who took on more responsibility during the Revolutionary War?

• Women
• Men
• Soldiers
• King George III

Who provided military leadership by serving as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army?

• Robert E. Lee
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Washington
• Ulysses S. Grant

Who provided political leadership by expressing the reasons for colonial independence from England in the Declaration of Independence?

• George Mason
• James Madison
• Patrick Henry
• Thomas Jefferson

What group was divided about the war? Some of these people fought for the English because they were promised freedom.

• African Americans
• Soldiers
• Women
• Dogs

Who was an enslaved African American from Virginia who served in the Continental Army and successfully requested his freedom after the war?

• John Lafayette
• James Lafayette
• James Madison
• Harriet Tubman

Who believed that their local assemblies had legal authority?

• Colonists
• British People
• Parliament
• George Washington

Who believed they had the right to tax the colonies even though they were not represented?

• Colonists
• Parliament
• Slaves
• Women

Who believed they should not be taxed because they had no representation in Parliament?

• Spanish
• Slaves
• Colonists
• Parliament

Who believed it had legal authority in the colonies, while the colonists believed their local assemblies had legal authority?

• Parliament
• Spanish
• French
• Colonists