Enlightenment Ideas
Which Enlightenment Figure influenced several Founding Fathers during the Revolutionary Period?
Who is John Locke?
Who is considered the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What British tax was placed on anything made up of paper?
What is the Stamp Act?
The battle where first fighting between British soldiers and Colonial Minutemen took place.
What is Lexington and Concord?
The leader of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
Where did the Enlightenment begin?
What is Europe?
“We hold these truths to be _________”
What is self-evident?
Conflict started when British soldiers fired into a crowd of angry Boston colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The battle where where British Troops invaded colonial defenses overlooking Boston on hills.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
The author of the pamphlet Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine.
All people who are born are entitled to these and cannot/should not be taken away by the government.
What are natural rights?
Who was the Declaration of Independence written for?
Who is King George?
When Boston colonists protested against the new tea tax.
What is the Boston Tea Part?
The battle where Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River on Christmas.
What is the Battle of Trenton?
The person who created the first American Flag.
Who is Betsy Ross?
What can people do if a government doesn’t protect natural rights?
What is change it or get rid of it?
What is the longest part of the Declaration of Independence?
What is the grievances?
The acts passed to punish colonists in Boston for dumping tea into the Boston Harbor.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
The battle that ended the war when the British surrendered.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The person who is said to have been the first to be killed in the American Revolution. He was also African American.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
What were Enlightenment ideas based on?
What is reason/logic/science?
People have what three “unalienable rights" according to the Declaration of Independence?
What are Life, liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
Why did the British demand new taxes?
What is to pay for the French and Indian War?
The battle that was the turning point that gave the Continental Army hope they could win the war after experiencing several losses to the British.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The infamous traitor of the Continental Army and spy who leaked information to the British because he did not get promoted as he wanted.
Who is Benedict Arnold?