1. American Revolution
Natasha Hebert
Williamson – 6th
V.S.

2. Who was King of England during the American Revolution?
King George III

3. What colonial phrase about taxation gives the main reason why the colonists declared their independence from England?
"No Taxation
Without
No Taxation Without Representation
Representation"

4. What is the name of the pamphlet that convinced the colonists to declare independence from England?
"Common
Sense"

5. Who wrote this pamphlet?
Thomas Paine

6. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson

7. When did the colonies declare independence?
July 4th 1776
America!

8. According to Thomas Jefferson what are the rights called that the government cannot take away?
Unalienable Rights

9. Name the examples of these rights that are listed in the Declaration of Independence.
Right of Life,
Liberty
the Pursuit
And
of Happiness

10. What was the name of the peace treaty for the American Revolution?
Treaty of Paris
September 3, 1783

11. What was the main thing the colonists gained from this treaty?
Independence

12. “Give me liberty or give me death."
- Patrick Henry