Unit 2 People Review

Who wrote about the Social Contract Theory of Government and believed in the preservation of natural rights such as life, liberty, and property?

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Baron de Montesquieu

The former slave killed at the Boston Massacre was:

• Crispus Attucks

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

Who encouraged the Virginia House of Burgesses to support the war with his stirring speech 'Give me Liberty or Give me Death'?

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Patrick Henry

• Benjamin Franklin

Who was the writer, inventor, and diplomat that persuaded France to join the colonies in their struggle for independence and created the political cartoon 'Join or Die'?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• John Adams

• George Washington

Who defended the British soldiers at their trial after the Boston Massacre and supported the fight for independence?

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

Who organized protests against the British economic policies and was one of the founders of the Sons of Liberty and the Committee of Correspondence?

• Samuel Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• John Adams

The term used to describe a British soldier is:

• Redcoat

• Yankee

• Doughboy

• Tommy

Who warned the colonial militia that the regular army was headed out of Boston and made an engraving of the Boston Massacre used as propaganda?

• Paul Revere

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

Who supported Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty, published a series of plays and pamphlets against British policies, and wrote the first history of the American Revolution?

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Mercy Otis Warren

• Benjamin Franklin

Who was a fierce supporter of the American revolution and advocated for women's rights, hoping the new government would 'Remember the ladies'?

• Abigail Adams

• Martha Washington

• Betsy Ross

• Dolley Madison