7th Grade Exam Review

Since King George III rejected the Declaration of Rights, delegates met for a _______________.

• Second Continental Congress

• First Continental Congress

• Constitutional Convention

Members of the First Continental Congress stopped trade with Great Britain and gave King George III the Declaration of __________ .

• Independence

• RIghts

• Colonization

The unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence are life, liberty, and ________.

• love

• pursuit of happiness

• property

The “shot heard from round the world,” refers to the fighting between the colonists and British soldiers that broke out at __________________ which sparked the Revolutionary War .

• Yorktown

• Lexington

• Valley Forge

True or False? Minutemen were members of local armies who were ready to respond to fight at any moment’s notice.

• False

• True

This person wrote Common Sense in which he argued that citizens should make the laws instead of the king.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Paine

• George Washington

Women,enslaved Africans, and ______ were not represented in the Declaration of Independence.

• men

• Frenchman

• Native Americans

True or False? Loyalists were colonists who chose to fight for independence from Britain.

• True

• False

No battles happened at _______ but Patriot soldiers struggled through the winter here.

• Lexington

• New York

• Valley Forge

True or False? Hessian mercenaries fought for the British because they were loyal to Great Britain.

• False

• True