American Revolution

The Battles of ____________________ and __________________ sparked the Revolutionary War.

• Lexington; Concord

• Concord; Bunker's Hill

• Lexington; Saratoga

• Concord; Camden

The Patriots knew that if they could gain control of Breed’s Hill, they could use cannons to fire down on the British in Boston. The Patriots lost the battle but successfully killed many British soldiers.

• Battle of Lexington

• Battle of Concord

• Battle of Trenton

• Battle of Bunker's Hill

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

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)

This document ends the American Revolution, and recognizes the former British colonies as an independent nation.

• Treaty of Paris (1783)

• Treaty of Paris (1763)

• Declaration of Independence

• Common Sense

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

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

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

Political authority that directed the struggle for independence beginning in 1775.

• First Continental Congress

• Second Continental Congress

• Articles of Confederation

• Committees of Correspondence

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