American Pageant Ch 8 Lesson
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Darby Pyle
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Multiple Choice
When did the Second Continental Congress Meet?
May 10, 1775
July 3, 1776
July 4, 1776
April 8, 1775
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Multiple Choice
Who was named as the leader of the Continental Army?
John Adams
Benedict Arnold
George Washington
Alexander Hamilton
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The 13 colonies make an alliance (friendship) with another European country to help win the American Revolution. What country did the colonies team up with?
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Explain the Olive Branch Petition. What did it do? What did it not do?
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The main point of the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence was to
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According to the video, the MAIN INTENDED audience of the Declaration was______. How does Heimler prove this point?
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Multiple Choice
The idea of Natural Rights came from which Enlightenment Philospher?
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Voltaire
Rosseau
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Multiple Choice
According to the Declaration, where does the government receive its power from?
Government
God
Constitution
Citizens
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Open Ended
Explain Social Contract Theory
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What events/battles occurred after the Olive Branch Petition? Which one was most significant? Why?
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Multiple Choice
Which one of our founders convinced France to help out the colonists?
George Washington
King Louis XVII
Ben Franklin
Thomas Paine
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Open Ended
How did Lafyette support American colonists?
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Why did Washington's soldiers refer to Marquis de Lafayette as "the soldiers friend"?
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Multiple Choice
How does Washington "trick" Clinton's British troops into staying in New York?
Washington burns down New York
Washington "loses" fake plans and sets up fake camps near New York
The French navy blocks the harbors
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Multiple Choice
Yorktown is known as a "siege" because a siege is
a military strategy to surround the enemy and cut off supplies
a military strategy to hide and ambush using surprise attacks
a military strategy to attack by both land and water at the same time
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Multiple Choice
What cowardly thing did Cornwallis do?
Meet with Rochambeau to determine surrender terms instead of with Washington
Say he was too sick to surrender in person
Refuse to give up his troops' swords
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Multiple Choice
What document officially ends the war in 1783?
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Yorktown
Treaty of Ghent
Treaty of France
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