Revolutions Part 1

Signed in 1776 by US revolutionaries; it declared the United States as a free state.

• Common Sense

• U.S. Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

Commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

• George Washington

• Nathanael Greene

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Baron von Steuben

The Battles of ____________________ and __________________ sparked the Revolutionary War.

• Lexington; Concord

• Concord; Bunker's Hill

• Lexington; Saratoga

• Concord; Camden

Jefferson was inspired by Enlightenment thinker ___________ _____________, who believed that people have natural rights—rights that belong to them simply because they are human.

• John Locke

• Thomas Paine

• Benjamin Franklin

• John Adams

Last major battle in the American Revolution. Nathaneal Greene army came up from the south, while George Washington’s army came down from the north, and the French navy blocked the harbor by sea. In 1781, this American victory in Virginia that forced the British to surrender

• Battle of Yorktown

• Battle of Charleston

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Trenton

In 1792, the National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy and declare France

• dissolved.

• bankrupt.

• a nation.

• a republic.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man guaranteed all of the following EXCEPT

• freedom of speech

• freedom of the press

• freedom of religion

• equal rights for women

The leader of the Reign of Terror & the Committee of Public Safety was

• Marie Antoinette.

• Olympe de Gouges.

• Maximilien Robespierre.

• Dr. Joseph Guillotin.

Which document declared that all men are free and equal?

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

• The Civil Constitution of the Clergy

• The Constitution of 1791

• The Concordat of Worms