USI 6 WMS Test Review

Colonists wrote a document saying they wanted freedom from Great Britain

• Approval of the Declaration of Independence

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Battle at Lexington and Concord

• Battle of Saratoga

First big organized battle with armies on both sides

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Battles of Lexington and Concord

• Battle of Saratoga

• Approval of the Declaration of Independence

First shots were fired between colonists and British soldiers using weapons on both sides.

• First Continental Congress

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Battle at Lexington and Concord

• Approval of the Declaration of Independence

Great Britain increased its control over the colonies because it wanted to...

• restore French rule

• Remain a world power

• give land to the settlers

• trade with Native Americans

Great Britain's desire to remain a world power resulted in a conflict with France over land known as the

• French and Indian War

• European War

• British and French War

• European War

What are the "certain unalienable rights" stated in the Declaration of Independence?

• Education, home ownership and taxation

• Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness

• Voting, representation and elections

• Bear arms, free speech, and trial by jury

According to the Declaration of Independence government derives (gets) its power from

• Colonial legislatures

• Colonial govenors

• The British King

• The people it governs

Key philosophies in the Declaration of Independence were based upon ideas first expressed by European philosophers such as

• Charles Townshend

• John Locke

• George Washington

• Lord Conrwallis

Who was the major author of the Declaration of Independence?

• George Washington

• Benjamin Franklin

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

What was the first Major Battle of the American Revolution?

• Saratoga

• Bunker Hill

• Lexington and Concord

• Yorktown