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British lawmakers are called _________________.

Parliament

What document established the United States as an independent nation and ended the American Revolution?

Declaration if Independence

Treaty of Paris

Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

Virginia Declaration of Rights

What title do we give the group of men who signed the Declaration of Independence?

Our Founding Fathers

What did George Washington do before leading the Continental Army?

He fought in the French and Indian War.

What was one of Patrick Henry's natural talents?

compromising

Fill in the blank: The British Parliament believed they had legal authority in the colonies, but the colonists believed ___________ had legal authority.

England

their local assemblies

Parliament

the President

What became the capital of Virginia in 1780?

Williamsburg

Jamestown

Richmond

Which people believed the colonists should be independent from Great Britain and supported the Revolutionary War?

patriots

The final battle of the Revolutionary War took place in ________________.

Richmond

Yorktown

Hampton

Williamsburg

When was the Battle of Yorktown?

1783

1776

1775

1781

What year was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

In April 1775, the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired at-

Boston

Yorktown

Richmond

Lexington and Concord

______________________ was elected by the committee to write the Declaration of Independence.

Thomas Jefferson

Who were allies, or supporters, of the colonies and were helping the Americans during the war?

French

______________ colonies united in 1776 to form the new country of America.

Thirteen

The colonists did not have a say in the British taxes they had to pay. This is called ____________________________________.

taxation without representation

_____________________ said "Give me liberty, or give me death!"

Patrick Henry

Money paid to the government is a _________.

Tax

The Battle of Yorktown resulted in the surrender of what country?

Spanish

British

American

French

The event in which colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor to protest the Townsend Acts is called the ____________________.

Boston Tea Party

Who rode his horse the entire night to warn Thomas Jefferson that the British were coming to arrest him?

Jack Jouett

Where were the Battles of Lexington and Concord fought?

Florida

Englan

Massachusetts

Virginia

What was the result of the American Revolution for the colonist?

They became independent

The British wanted to _________ the colonists even though they did not have representation in Parliamen

tax

True or False? Virginia patriots who did not fight in the war helped in other ways.

True

Who took detailed notes during Constitutional Convention. He believed in the importance of a U.S. Constitution and his skills at compromise helped reach agreements during the writing of the Constitution.

James Madison

True or False? During the Revolutionary War, women took on more responsibility.

True

James Armistead Lafayette was a slave who _____________________.

spied on the English army.

Who was a French nobleman who helped organize support from the French Navy, He contributed to the victory at Yorktown?

Marquis Lafayette

Thomas Jefferson wrote the ____________________________________ which laid out the complaints of the colonists toward England.

Declaration of Independence

Who said, "Give me liberty or give me death?"

Patrick Henry

True or False? James Armistead Lafayette was freed from slavery after the war.

True

Thomas Jefferson provided political leadership by ____________________.

writing the Declaration of Independence.

Who provided military leadership by serving as commander in-chief of the Continental Army. He helped develop the plan to surround the British and led American forces to Virginia?

George Washington

Two important ideas in the Declaration of Independence are that: The authority to govern lies with the _____________ and all people are created ____________ and have rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

people, equal

Which event led to the end of the American Revolution?

Treaty of Paris

Declaration of Independence

Moving the capital to Richmond

Battle of Yorktown

When the capital was moved, the population was moving for more opportunities.?

North

South

West

East

hat war had just ended in 1763 that cost Britain a lot of money?

French Revolution

Civil War

American Revolution

French and Indian

What war took place between 1775 and 1781?

The Revolutionary War

Which Virginians were loyal to King George and wanted to stay with Great Britain?

loyalists

Who spied on the English Army as a servant?

James Armistead Lafayette

Who wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?

Patrick Henry

Thomas Jefferson

George Washington

James Madison

Whose famous speeches inspired colonists to break away from England?

Patrick Henry

Patriots believed ______________ was worth fighting and dying for.

freedom

The British believed _____________________ should rule the colonies without any input from the colonists.

King George

was later elected asWho was elected the first President of the United States of America.

George Washington

Some enslaved African Americans supported the British because they were promised -

their freedom

Who was formerly an enslaved African who served as a spy in the Continental Army. He fought for and won his freedom many years after the war.

James Layfayette

During the Revolutionary War, African Americans in Virginia ______________.

were all patriots

were forced to fight in the army

were divided in their feelings about the war

were all loyalists

All the following are reasons why the capital was moved EXCEPT?

The population was moving westward

Moving increased the distance of attack by the British

The population was moving westward

Richmond was a more central location

People who supported the colonies and fought for independence from Great Britain were....

Loyalists

Angry

Nuetral

Patriots

Several ideas expressed in the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom were later included in-

The Bill of Rights

The Declaration of Independence

The Virginia State Constitution

The Virginia Charters

True or False? Lexington and Concord signed to the British that Americans would fight for their freedom.

False

George Washington provided military leadership by _________________.

commanding the Continental Army.

What document gave listed reasons why the colonies’ wanted independence from Great Britain?

Declaration of Independence

Who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights?

James Mason

Marquis de Lafayette

Thomas Jefferson

James Lafayette

Who inspired patriots when he spoke out against taxation with representation with his "Give me liberty or give me death!” speech.

Patrick Henry

ho helped James Lafayette be granted his freedom?

George Washinhton

William Armistead

Marquis de Lafayette

Patrick Henry

British Parliament raised money from the America settlers by ______________ the colonists.

taxing

The Battle of Yorktown was the ______ major battle of the American Revolution

first

fifth

third

last

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Thomas Jefferson

What did the British promise slaves during the American revolution if they chose to fight against the patriots?

their freedom

Patrick Henry was a Virginia patriot who said _________________.

"Give me liberty or give me death!"

During the Revolutionary War, the colonists were helped by the ____________.

French

Who took on more responsibilities such as farming, making clothes, and caring for wounded soldiers, during the American Revolution?

enslaved African Americans

American Indians

women

men

The first Continental Congress met in the year __________.

1774

Who was the commander of the Continental Army?

George Washington

Some Virginians did not take sides in the war. They were-

nuetral

Who provided political leadership by writing the Declaration of Independence. And believed people should be free to make the choice to worship or not, writing the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.

Thomas Jefferson