Which Enlightenment thinker believed in separation of powers?
Who was Baron de Montesquieu
What was the Boston TEA Party protesting?
What were British tea taxes
Which country helped the colonies after Saratoga?
Who was France
Which group supported independence?
Tom Brady
Who were the Patriots
Which Enlightenment thinker believed people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property?
Who was John Locke
What was the purpose of the Intolerable Acts?
Why was the Battle of Yorktown important?
It ended the war
Who wrote Common Sense, encouraging colonists to support independence?
Who was Thomas Paine
These were the ideas brought over to America from Britain and France that inspired the Revolution
What were the Enlightenment ideas?
What happened at the Boston Massacre?
What was British soldiers killed colonists
Which battle was a turning point that convinced France to support the colonies?
What was the battle of Saratoga?
Which act taxed printed materials like newspapers and legal documents?
What was the Stamp Act
What Enlightenment idea says government gets power from the people?
What was the Social contract
What was the Quartering Act?
What was Colonists must house soldiers
What event is known as the first battle of the American Revolution?
What was the Battle of Lexington and Concord
What did the phrase “No taxation without representation” mean?
The Colonists were not being represented for the taxes being put on the colonies I.E it was unfair
What idea from Jean-Jacques Rousseau influenced democracy?
What is the Social contract?
What was the main goal of the First Continental Congress?
To Organize colonial response to Britain
Who was the commander of the Continental Army? (First President of the Second Continental Congress)
Who was George Washington
Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Who was Thomas Jefferson