American Revolution Unit Review

What are the big 3 unalienable rights?

• life, property, and liberty

• time, money, and power

• life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness

"Unalienable rights" are similar to which of the following ideas?

• right to rebel

• natural rights

• popular sovereignty

The ______________ had the British recognize the US as an independent nation after General Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown.

• Treaty of Paris
• Declaration of Independence
• Proclamation of 1763
• Crisis

Why is the Battle of Saratoga called the turning point of the Revolutionary War?

• The Spanish decide to become American allies
• British General Cornwallis surrender at this battle
• the French decide to become American allies

Why did Britain seek to tax the colonists in the 1760s?

• The colonists were wealthier than most British citizens.
• Britain needed money to pay for the French and Indian War.
• The British wanted to punish the colonists for rebelling against the Proclamation.
• Britain needed money to protect the colonists from the French.

Why did the Britain begin to tax the colonists?

• They wanted more money to make Britain look better

• They needed money to pay off war debts from the French and Indian War

• They needed money to pay for Boston soldiers

• They hated the colonists' guts

Common Sense was a pamphlet Thomas Paine published to distribute in the colonies to...

• explain to Britain why they should end the quartering act

• influence more people to join the independence movement.

• to join the Loyalist party

• abide by the Intolerable acts

After all of the Acts that were passed in 1774, American colonists responded by meeting at the _________ to send a list of grievances to King George III.

• The First Continental Congress

• The House of Burgesses

• The Sons of Liberty

• The Boston Tea Party

Who was the opponent at Valley Forge?

• Winter, starvation, disease
• British
• French
• Indians

"Starve, dissolve, or disperse...rest assured Sir this is not an exaggerated picture..." George Washington describes the events of when

• his men have just been attacked at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
• his men are starving and dying from smallpox at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania