Study Guide for VS 5

"No Sugar Act", " No Tea Act", " No Stamp Act" these are all statements about?

• Sweet candy

• Taxation without representation

• New laws

• none of these

The British and the Colonists disagreed on who should have legal authority within the colonies. How were their views different?

• Women wanted Parliament to rule

• British wanted Parliament to rule

• British wanted people to rule

• none of these

The British and the Colonists disagreed on who should have legal authority within the colonies. How were their views different?

• Colonists wanted the local assemblies to rule

• Men wanted the men to rule

• wanted everyone to rule

• none of these

What were the two sides of the American Revolutionary war?

• Loyalty to the king

• should form a new nation

• men and women

• free slaves and slaves

What did the Colonists and Parliament disagree over?

• what they are having for dinner

• who should be elected

• who is right or who is wrong

• How the colonists should be governed

Why did the colonists decide to fight for independence?

• They felt they had the right to govern themselves

• They want to live in their own house

• They just don't like the rules

• None of these

Who provided leadership and expressed the reasons why the colonists wanted independence in the Declaration of Indepence?

• Mrs. Puckett

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Colonists

Which document explained the reasons for the Revolutionary War?

• The Declaration of Independence

• Virginia Studies book

• Law book

• none of these

Name of the governing body in England during the Revolutionary War?

• Parliament

• Democrats

• Republicans

• none of these

Who was an enslaved African American who spied on the British for the Continental Army?

• James Lafayette

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Lebron James

• None of these