American Revolution

I made a midnight ride to warn the countryside of a British attack.

• Ben Franklin

• George Washington

• Paul Revere

• King George III

I was an brilliant inventor and I traveled to France and convinced them to join the war on the side of the Americans.

• George Washington

• Ben Franklin

• John Adams

• Abigail Adams

I was the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.

• Ben Franklin

• King George III

• Paul Revere

• George Washington

Which group wanted independence from England?

• Loyalist

• Patriot

Which group wanted to stay with England?

• Loyalist

• Patriot

In which battle started the American Revolution and was the known as the "shot heard round the world"?

• Trenton

• Saratoga

• Lexington and Concord

• Bunker Hill

I was asked to create a flag for America?

• Betsy Ross

• Abigail Adams

• Ben Franklin

• Mary Ludwig Hays "Molly Pitcher"

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

• George Washington

• Sam Adams

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

Which (original) Enlightenment thinker influenced the writing of the Dec of Independence?

• Carl Marx

• John Locke

• Thomas Paine

• Thomas Jefferson

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."Declaration of Independence, 1776In this passage of the Declaration, which Enlightenment philosopher's ideas are present? 

• John Locke's natural rights
• Montesquieu's separation of powers
• Thomas Hobbe's social contract theory
• Beccaria's end of cruel and unusual punishment