STAAR Quiz Week 3

American patriot woman, famous for writing anti-British Revolutionary poetry and books.   Her notes were used to write the 1st History book on the American Revolution.

• Mercy Otis Warren
• Clara Barton
• Abigail Adams

Former slave, served int he Continental Army under Marquis de Lafayette, a spy for the Americans.

• James Armistead
• Crispus Attucks
• Martin Luther King Jr.

African-American patriot shot and killed at the Boston Massacre.  1st American to be killed by the British.

• Crispus Attucks
• Haym Solomon
• James Armistead

Who was the man know as the "Great Compromiser" for his work to avoid war betwen the North and South?

• John Locke
• Henry Clay
• Thomas Hooker
• William Penn

What was the location of the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant?

• The Magna Carta
• Battle of Fort Sumter
• Appomattox Court House 
• Federalism

Who founded Pennsylvania for the Quakers, where he wrote a constitution that limited the power of government, provided a humane penal code, and guaranteed many fundamental liberties?

• William Penn
• Thomas Hooker
• John Locke
• William Blackstone

Who was a French philosopher whose ideas of separation of powers and checks and balances inspired Jefferson and Madison?

• Thomas Hooker
• William Blackstone
• William Penn
• Charles de Montesquieu

Trial by jury in civil cases.

• 3rd Amendment
• 7th Amendment
• 2nd Amendment 
• 10th Amendment

The right to a fast and public trial, right to have a lawyer.

• 6th Amendment
• 5th Amendment
• 4th Amendment
• 7th Amendment

Powers reserved to states. 

• 8th Amendment
• 9th Amendment
• 10th Amendment
• 5th Amendment