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What was the main point of Common Sense?
Who wrote Common Sense?
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Who wrote Common Sense?
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
John Adams
James Madison
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What was the main point of Common Sense?
War is never the answer
Taxation is necessary
Citizens should make their own laws
The Patriots should peacefully submit to Britain
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Which side wore red coats?
British
Patriots
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The Declaration of Independence included a list of grievances against whom?
George Washington
King George III
Benedict Arnold
Parliament
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Colonists who chose to fight for independence from Great Britain were called...
Loyalists
Huguenots
Mercenaries
Patriots
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Swift hit-and-run attacks are called
Total war
Guerrilla warfare
Trench warfare
Mercenaries
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Foreign soldiers who fought not out of loyalty but for pay were called...
Loyalists
Patriots
Minutemen
Mercenaries
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Who said, "Give me liberty, or give me death"?
Thomas Jefferson
Patrick Henry
John Locke
Thomas Paine
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Whose rights were addressed in the Declaration of Independence?
White men
African Americans
White women
All of the above
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Who alerted colonists that the British had arrived in Boston?
William Tell
Paul Revere
Patrick Henry
Benedict Arnold
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Colonists who chose to side with the British were called...
Loyalists
Patriots
Huguenots
Mercenaries
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Which of the following battles was a turning point in the war because it led to foreign aid?
Trenton
Bunker Hill
Saratoga
Dorchester Heights
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Which was NOT a country that helped the patriots in the Revolutionary War?
Italy
Spain
Holland
France
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Which did NOT happen at the First Continental Congress?
Colonies declared war
Colonists agreed to continue boycotting British goods
They made a plan to ask the king to correct the problems
They drafted a declaration of rights
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What was the last major battle of the American Revolution?
Battle of Yorktown
Battle of Saratoga
Lexington and Concord
Battle of Trenton
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Loyalists were more likely to live in which part of the country?
South
Boston
Middle colonies
New England
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When was the Declaration of Independence signed?
July 1778
December 1776
July 1776
December 1778
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What was the motto created for the new country?
Out of many, one
Taxation without representation
Give me liberty, or give me death
Forward
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Who commanded the Continental Army?
Paul Revere
John Paul Jones
Marquis de Lafayette
George Washington
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Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
Benjamin Franklin
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What treaty ended the war?
Treaty of London
Treaty of Washington, D.C.
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Westphalia
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With whom did more Native Americans side?
Patriots
Britain
They were evenly split between the 2 sides
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Where did the Continental Army spend the brutal winter of 1777-78?
Savannah
New York City
Boston
Valley Forge
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Which is NOT a way women could serve in the war?
Messengers
Spies
Soldiers
Nurses
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Who was the Patriot that became a Loyalist, now famous as a traitor?
Francis Marion
Thomas Paine
Benedict Arnold
Patrick Henry