SSUSH 3/4 Quiz

Which Enlightenment philosopher's ideas (such as social contract) challenged empires and monarchies about natural rights and power of governments and citizens?

• John Locke

• George Washington

• George Mason

• John Hancock

Colonists were not allowed to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains due to the

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• Intolerable Act

In 1773 patriots like the Sons of Liberty dressed as Native Americans and protested British trade policies and taxes on goods through the -

• Great Colonial Boycott
• Boston Tea Party
• Boston Massacre
• Intolerable Acts

This act was a tax on a legal papers and documents in the colonies and led to mass protests and boycotts, and so was later repealed

• Townshend Act
• Stamp Act
• Intolerable Acts
• Declaratory Act

All colonies were represented at the First Continental Congress EXCEPT -

• Pennsylvania
• North Carolina
• Georgia
• South Carolina

This man led the American Army and kept them unified, utilized guerrilla tactics, and avoided direct conflicts that may have destroyed the army.

• George Washington
• Benjamin Franklin
• Alexander Hamilton
• Lord Cornwallis

One of John Locke's main ideas were people's natural and inalienable rights.  These rights were -

• The right to choose your own religion
• The right to own slaves
• The right to life, liberty, and property
• The right to life and religion

Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" influenced many Americans to call for the

• formation of Tory groups 
• creation of capitalism
• independence from the British
• attach French held territory

Colonist were especially upset with the British government because it did not allow the -

• colonial business to support royal taxes
• colonists to have representation in Parliament
• powers of colonial legislatures to increase
• laws passed by parliament to govern the colonies

This diplomatic act greatly aided the colonial effort in the war.

• Benjamin Franklin negotiated the Treaty of Alliance with France.
• George Washington's ability to keep his army together
• George Washington's guerrilla tactics
• The French Navy attack on Yorktown