Enlightenment Ideas
Who was the most famous English Enlightenment thinker?
Who was John Locke?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What British tax was placed on colonial legal documents?
What was the Stamp Act?
What were people who favored complete independence from England called?
What is the Patriots?
Who led the American Army?
Who was George Washington?
Who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense?
Who was Thomas Paine?
“We hold these truths to be ***”
What is self-evident?
Why did the British demand new taxes?
What were people who remained loyal to England called?
What is the Loyalists?
Who lost the Battle of Yorktown?
Who was General Cornwallis?
All people had what kind of rights?
What is natural rights?
“… that all men are …”
What is created equal?
Conflict started when British soldiers fired into a crowd of angry Boston colonists?
What is the Boston Massacre?
Which side did “neutrals” favor?
What is neither, they tried to stay uninvolved.
Who was England’s king during the American Revolution?
Who was King George III?
Where did the Enlightenment begin? (Country)
What is England/Great Britain?
People have what “unalienable rights”?
What is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
How did Boston colonists protest the new tea tax?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Which group thought that British taxes were fair?
What is the Loyalists?
Who was George Washington's foreign born right hand man?
Who was Marquis de Lafayette?
What can people do if a government doesn’t protect natural rights?
What is change it/remove it/fight back?
Who violated the colonists’ rights?
Where was the first fighting between British soldiers and Colonial Minutemen?
Where is Lexington and Concord?
Who said: “Give me liberty, or give me death”?
Who was Patrick Henry?
Who negotiated a Treaty of Alliance with France?
Who was Benjamin Franklin?