American Revolution Quiz

Slogan used by American colonists explaining why they were upset with being taxed

• No taxation without representation

•  Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness

• Common Sense

• Join or Die

• Give me liberty or give me death

when British soldiers fired into a crowd and killed 5 colonists on March 5, 1770

• Boston Massacre

• Battle of Saratoga

• Boston Tea Party

• Sons of Liberty

Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness

• Natural Rights

• Common Sense

• quote from the Declaration of Independence

• George Washington quote

Describe a Loyalist (during the American Revolution)

Describe a Patriot (during the American Revolution)

Enlightenment thinker that influenced Thomas Jefferson when he wrote the Declaration of Independence

• John Locke

• Thomas Paine

• George Washington

• Samuel Adams

a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that encouraged colonists to declare independence

• Common Sense

• The Federalist Papers

• The Communist Manifesto

• The Prince

the Sons of Liberty threw chests of tea into Boston harbor in response the tax on tea

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Declaration of Independence

• Olive Branch Petition

to refuse to buy or use something as a means of protest

• Boycott

• Olive Branch

• Treaty

• Declaration

document written by Thomas Jefferson on July 4, 1776

• Declaration of Independence

• Intolerable Acts

• Olive Branch Petition

• Treaty of Paris 1783