Revolutionary War Quiz 1

_____________ _________ wrote Common Sense, a 47-page pamphlet that suggested citizens make laws, not kings or queens.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Paine

• Benjamin Franklin

• James Monroe

The First Continental Congress was a gathering of colonial leaders in ______________ in 1774.

• Richmond

• Boston

• New York City

• Philadelphia

The first battle of the Revolutionary War took place at ________________

• Lexington and Concord

• Albany and New York City

• Boston and Concord

• Lexington and Lowell

_______ ___, 1776, was the day independence was approved by the Continental Congress.

• July 1

• July 2

• July 3

• July 4

The Declaration of Independence was a document that announced the colonists wanted to separate from Great Britain, and was written by __________ _______________

• Thomas Paine

• James Monroe

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

____________ ____________ was written for common people to persuade them why they needed independence from Great Britain.

(a)  

____________ ___________ violated colonists' rights by taxing them without their consent.

(a)  

__________ ___________, a member of the Sons of Liberty, notified that the British were coming by land, along with other riders.

(a)  

Governor Gage of the royal colony of Massachusetts, wanted to seize weapons and arrest _________ _________ and _________ ____________.

(a)  

_____________ ___________spoke to Virginians in Richmond, and ended his speech with the famous phrase, "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!"

(a)