HW:Ch8 Test practice

Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, spoke about the colonies becoming independent from Great Britain.

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

• Olive Branch Petition

• Treaty of Paris (1783)

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

Jefferson's political ideas were influenced by the ______________________, a movement that emphasized science and reason as guides to help see the world more clearly.

• Enlightenment

• Scientific Revolution

• Great Awakening

• French Revolution

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

Basic rights of the people that may not be taken away.

• Unalienable Rights

• Human Rights

• Natural Rights

• Bill of Rights

According to Copernicus, the sun  

• Revolved around the earth
• Was the center of the Universe
• Was the biggest star
•  Had many moons

The idea that the sun is the center of the universe is the ____________ theory.

• geocentric
• heliocentric
• solar
• sunny

What did the geocentric theory state?

• The sun was at the center of the universe
• The earth was at the center of the universe