US I - Topic 3 - The Revolution

A declaration by the British king, ordering all colonists to remain east of the Appalachian

Mountains was known as ____________________.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Townshend Acts

• Committees of Correspondence

• Nonimportation Agreements

Trained citizens who served as soldiers during an emergency were known as

• Hessians

• Militia

• Loyalists

• Patriots

_______________ were colonists who remained loyal to Britain during the Revolutionary

War.

• Patriots

• Minutemen

• Loyalists

• Hessians

_____________ was an assembly of delegates representing every colony that met in 1775

following the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

• First Continental Congress

• Second Continental Congress

______________ was an English-American author and political thinker, the author of

Common Sense, which helped bring support to the Patriot cause.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Paine

• John Locke

_______________ represented Virginia in the Second Continental Congress, he drafted

and revised the Declaration of Independence and later served as a President.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

• John Adams

_______________ was an American printer, inventor, scientist, and diplomat. He also

served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, and to the Constitutional Convention,

and was later US Ambassador to France.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

• Thomas Paine

Marquis de Lafayette was a French aristocrat who joined the American Patriot cause and

fought under George Washington.

• True

• False

A(n) ________________ is a professional soldier who is paid to fight in a foreign army.

• Militia

• Minuteman

• Mercenary

• Loyalist

A group of delegates representing all American colonies, except Georgia, that met in 1774

was the _________.

• First Continental Congress

• Second Continental Congress