RAMS VS.5 Revolutionary War Review

Who did the colonists believe had legal authority in the colonies?

• Parliament
• local assemblies
• the King
• George Washington

The Declaration of Independence states that all authority to govern belongs to who?

• People
• King
• Parliament
• Local Assemblies

Who served as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army?

• George Washington
• Patrick Henry
• General Cornwallis
• Thomas Jefferson

Who was forced to flee the city of Norfolk during the Battle of Great Bridge?

• Patrick Henry
• The King
• The British Governor
• George Washington

Who was a slave that served in the Continental Army and was given his freedom after the war?

• George Washington
• Patrick Henry
• American Indians
• James Lafayette

Which group of people fought alongside both the patriots and loyalists?

• Loyalists
• Patriots
• American Indians
• Women

Who rode on horseback to Charlottesville to war Thomas Jefferson that the British were coming?

• James Lafayette
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Washington
• Jack Jouett

__________ believed they had legal authority in the colonies.

• The King
• General Assembly
• Parliament
• House of Burgesses

The last major battle of the Revolutionary War was fought at _________

• The Battle of Great Bridge
• Yorktown
• Jamestown
• Richmond

The Declaration of Independence states that all people have rights to life, __________, and the pursuit of happiness.

• freedom
• independence
• liberty
• equality