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5 Written Questions

1. concepts of English philosopher John Locke ---"life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"--- written by Thomas Jefferson
2. an anonymous 50-pg pamphlet explaining Thomas Pain's own revolt against King George III that began with Lexington and Concord
3. those who opposed independence andremained loyal to the Crown
4. rule imposed by military forces
5. site of the Continental Army's camp during the winter of 1777-1778

5 Matching Questions

1. yorktown
2. Marquis de Lafayette
3. King George III
4. Second continental congress
5. egalitarianism

1. a belief in the equality of all people
2. b brave idealistic 20 yr old french aristocrat military leader
3. c where colonial leaders convened to debate their next move towards a Revolution in May of 1775
4. d King of G. Britain
5. e where william fontaine and teh virginia militia stood with american and french armies lining a road on OCT. 19, 1781 to witness the formal britsh surrender

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. shut down Boston Harbor b/c colonists refusing to pay for damaged tea. Quartering Act; appointed Thomas Gage governor of Mass.; held Boston under martial law
   1. Intolerable Acts
   2. Loyalists
   3. Townshend Acts
   4. stamp act
2. a founder of sons of liberty and proved himself to be a powerful and influential political activist
   1. stamp act
   2. Valley forge
   3. martial law
   4. Samuel Adams
3. assemblies set up to communicate with other colonies about threats to american liberties
   1. treay of paris
   2. common sense
   3. committees of correspondence
   4. Declaration of Independence
4. selling scarce goods for a profit
   1. yorktown
   2. minutemen
   3. profiteering
   4. Trenton
5. general who saild with henry clinton
   1. charles cornwallis
   2. Samuel Adams
   3. Valley forge
   4. treay of paris

5 True/False Question

1. boston massacre → incident on which colonists dressed as indians destroyed british ships that carried tea and threw the 18,000 lbs of the East India Company's tea into the water
   

   True        False

2. stamp act → required colonists to purchase special stamped paper for every legal document, license, newspaper, pamphlet, and almanac, and imposed special "stamp duties" on pachakges of playing cards and dice
   

   True        False

3. boston tea party → where fighting b/w colonists an dpoorly paid soldiers over competition for jobs left 5 dead
   

   True        False

4. minutemen → civilian soldiers
   

   True        False

5. Townshend Acts → passed in 1767 were indirect taxies levied on imported materials
   

   True        False