Revolutionary War Fast and Curious

What is Parliament?

• the British government

• the European government

• the American government

• the French government

Parliament believed it had the right to...

• give money to the colonies.

• help the colonies.

• break away from the colonies.

• tax the colonists.

Colonists didn't want to be taxed without ...

• splitting from England.

• help from the government.

• representation (a say in how the money was being spent).

• running away.

Thomas Jefferson wrote the __.

• Declaration of Independence

• "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech

• Constitution

• Stamp Act

The Declaration of Independence says "all people are created equal" and have rights to ______, ______, and the _______.

• life, money, and a house

• freedom that you can die for

• liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and freedom from taxes

• life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

The Continental Army was ___.

• the British army

• the colonists' army

• the French army

• the Spanish army

What are taxes?

• money the government gives you

• money the government steals from you

• money you pay the government that they throw away

• money you pay to the government for things everyone in the community uses

George Washington was the ___ of the Continental Army.

• commander-in-chief

• president

• fighter

• helper

Who said "give me liberty or give me death!"?

• Marquis de Lafayette

• George Washington

• James Armistead Lafayette

• Patrick Henry

Who was a French nobleman who helped us win the battle of Yorktown?

• Patrick Henry

• James Lafayette

• George Washington

• Marquis de Lafayette