Enlightenment
Enlightenment ideas (like the thought that we are born with natural rights) can be found in what American document?
Declaration of Independence
The American Revolutionary War was fought between whom?
American Colonies and Great Britain
Leader of the Continental Army
George Washington
He was the main author of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
The DOI says that government gets their power from whom?
People or Consent of the Governed
Name the 3 unalienable (natural) rights that all people are born with.
Life, liberty, property or pursuit of happiness
State 1 advantage the Americans had going into the war.
Great motivation
Great military leader
Knew the geography of the land
A movement of the 18th century that stressed the belief that science and logic give people more knowledge and understanding than tradition and religion.
Enlightenment
He wrote the Preamble to the DOI
John Adams
On what date (month, day, year) did the colonies approve the DOI?
July 4th, 1776
This Enlightenment thinker thought people are generally evil and therefore need government to guide them.
T. Hobbes
State 1 advantage Great Britain had going into the war.
Best military in the world, well trained
Good resources; well fed, well paid,
Hired Hessians
Strong Navy
Hired German soldiers that fought for England
Hessians
American leader at Saratoga that would later become a traitor.
Benedict Arnold
He was the first delegate to sign the DOI
John Hancock
The opening of the Declaration of Independence is copying whose Enlightenment ideas?
John Locke
This committee of colonial leaders declared war on England.
Second Continental Congress
A formal agreement between two nations that usually ends a war.
Treaty
He told American's it was "common sense" to break away from Britain.
Thomas Paine
This part of the DOI lists complaints against the king.
Body
This Enlightenment thinker thought there should be a system of checks and balances or separation of powers in government
Montesquieu
How many years was the Revolutionary War fought?
7-8
A formal agreement between 2 countries to work together. A friend in times a war. France was an _______ to the colonists.
Ally or Alliance
British general who gave up at the Battle of Yorktown.
Cornwallis
Name all the different sections of the DOI
Introduction, Preamble, Body (2 sections), Conclusion