Module 4 Study Guide

American colonists who remained loyal to Britain

• loyalists

• Patriots
• Whigs
• Federalists

the name of the Colonial Military force created to fight the British

• Continental Army
• Patriot Army
• Colonial Brigade
• Rebel Force

How did Mercy Otis Warren support opposition to the Stamp Act?

• She led a violent protest against the Stamp Act
• She served as a British spy
• She wrote a book in support of the Stamp Act
• She wrote plays and poems that criticized the Stamp Act

What was Patrick Henry's role leading up the American Revolution?

• leader of the Boston Tea Party

• warned the Patriots at Lexington and Concord

• was an early supporter of American independence

• led efforts to draft the Declaration of Independence

the first two battles of the American Revolution are

• Battle of Lexington and Concord
• Battle of Gettysburg and Antietam
• Battle of Bull Run and Shiloh
• Battle of Bunker Hill and Saratoga

who was chosen by the 2nd Continental Congress to lead

the Continental Army

• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin
• John Adams

In the pamphlet titled ___________ published in January 1776, ___________ argued

against having a monarchy and in for favor for independence

• Common Sense and

  Thomas Jefferson

• Common Sense and Thomas Paine

• American Crisis and Thomas Jefferson

• American Crisis and Thomas Paine

the main author of the Declaration of Independence

• George Washington
• Abraham Lincoln
• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin

Which was NOT one of the points made in the

Declaration of Independence

• King George III passed unfair laws

• King George III broke the Social Contract

• All people have unalienable rights

• Enslaved people had the right to be free

this person brought his own soldiers, boat, and money and volunteered to

fight without pay to help the Continental Army

• George Washington
• Benjamin Franklin
• Marquis de Lafayette
• Thomas Jefferson