chapter 6 section 4 - Declaring Independence

1.In May 1775, the Green Mountain Boys led by ______________ captured a British fort on Lake Champlain in New York.

• Samuel Prescott

• George Washington

• Ethan Allen

• Benedict Arnold

The artillery that the Green Mountain Boys seized from Fort Ticonderoga was later used by Patriots to drive the British from

• Dorchester Heights

• Boston

• Bunker Hill

• Lexington

_______________, an officer who played a key role in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, later helped lead the Patriot's invasion of Canada.

• Ethan Allen

• Samuel Prescott

• George Washington

• Benedict Arnold

The ___________________ began to act as a government for the colonies by forming an army and authorizing the printing of paper money to pay the troops.

• House of Burgesses

• militia

• minutemen

• Second Continental Congress

In the Declaration of Independence is based on the idea hat people have certain _____________, which the government cannot take away.

• trading rights

• inalienable rights

• government rights

• land rights

In the Declaration of Independence, ________________ wrote that people had a right to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness".

• Thomas Paine

• John Hancock

• Thomas Jefferson

• Samuel Adams

During the Revolutionary War, people who sided with the rebels were called

• patriots

• loyalists

• minutemen

• militia

Who was the author of Common Sense?

• Phyllis Wheatley

• Benedict Arnold

• Thomas Paine

• Thomas Jefferson

Which of the members of The Second Continental Congress was also the commanding general of the Continental Army?

• George Washington

• John Hancock

• Patrick Henry

• Ethan Allen

Thomas Paine published a pamphlet called Common Sense in order to do what?

• to recognize all the people who played a role in the fight for independence

• to list the grievances that Parliament had done to the colonists

• to convince the Americans that a compete break with Britain was necessary

• to convince the British Parliament that the Revolutionary War was useless