American Revolution

What angered the colonists to the point where they wanted independence from Britain?

• taxes
• Boston Tea Party
• Lexington and Concord
• Declaration of Independence

Who agreed to give the Americans their freedom after the victory at Yorktown?

• King George III
• Thomas Jefferson
• King Louis XVI
• Marquis de Lafayette 

The profitability of cash-crop agriculture led to the development of what type of trade between European countries, the Colonies, and Africa? 

• circular trade
• Triangular Trade 
• square trade
• Colonial trade 

What is the name of the acts that were passed after the Boston Tea Party? 

• Townshend Acts 
• Intolerable Acts
• Navigation Acts
• Stamp Act 

Written in the summer of 1776 by a committee chosen by the Continental Congress and independence was officially declared after it was accepted. 

• Declaration of Independence
• Mayflower Compact 
• Magna Carta
• Constitution

Who wrote a pamphlet during the Revolution that encouraged people to stay with the cause even when times were bad

• Thomas Jefferson
• Thomas Paine
• Ben Franklin
• Mercy Otis Warren 

What are the 3 unalienable rights?

• Protection of property, power and freedom

• life, liberty and power

• life, liberty and the protection of property

• freedom of religion, right to bare arms, protections of property

Who wrote about the unalienable rights?

• John Locke

• Huge Jackman

• Benjamin Franklin

• Andrew Jackson

What did Thomas Jefferson write?

• The Magna Carta

• The Mayflower Compact

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Emancipation Proclamation

Who is a French aristocrat who was leading role in the American Revolution?

• Marquis de Julien

• Louis Pierre Ancillon de la Sablonniere

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Claudius Amyand