SSUSH 4 quiz (Giddens)

Authored the Declaration of Independence 

• Thomas Anderson 
• Thomas Paine 
• Thomas Jefferson 
• Benjamin Franklin 

Author of 'Common Sense'

• Thomas Jefferson 
• Thomas Paine 
• John Locke 

Ideas on Natural Rights were used in the Declaration of Independence 

• Thomas Jefferson 
• John Locke 
• Montesquieu 
• Thomas Hobbes

Date the Declaration was passed 

• July 4th 1776
• July 3rd 1776
• June 4th 1776
• June 3rd 1776 

Without the help of _________________, the Americans would have lost the war 

• British 
• Spanish 
• French 
• Italians 

Who was the commander in chief during the American Revolution and the 1st President of the United States?

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• Samuel Adams

During the Battle of _________________, Americans crossed the Delaware River and surprised Hessian troops on Christmas.

• Bunker's Hill

• Trenton

• Saratoga

• Yorktown

American intellectual, inventor, and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution.

• Benjamin Franklin

• John Adams

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

1781 American victory in Virginia that forced the British (General Cornwallis) to surrender

• Battle of Charleston

• Battle of Cowpens

• Battle of Yorktown

• Battle of Saratoga

Treaty Between England and the Colonies , formally ended the American Revolutionary War

• Treaty of Paris (1763)

• Treaty of Paris (1783)

• Olive Branch Petition

• Declaration of Independence