STAAR Quiz #4 2018

Wrote the pamphlets like Common Sense to encourage American independence.

• Thomas Paine
• Wentworth Cheswell
• John Adams

African American patriot during the American Revolution, made a midnight run to New Hampshire to warn of a British invasion and fought with Continental Army at Saratoga.

• Wentworth Cheswell
• Thomas Paine
• Crispus Attucks

American patriot, wife of John Adams, and early supporter of women's rights.

• Abigail Adams
• Clara Barton
• Mercy Otis Warren

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.

The decisive victory and turning point for the Americans during the Revolution.  Also caused the French to help the Patriots.

• Battle of Saratoga
• Battle of Yorktown
• Battle of Lexington

What was the battle in Virginia that caused the British to surrender and end the American  Revolutionary War?

• Battle of Yorktown
• Battle of Saratoga
• Battle of Lexington

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 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