Unit 3 Test Version 3

“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

–Benjamin Franklin,

At the signing of the Declaration of Independence,

July 4, 1776

In the above quote, Benjamin Franklin was saying that:

• colonists must set aside their differences or the success of the Revolution would be at risk.

• the signers would be at risk if they did not appear united before the other colonists.

• he did not believe issuing the Declaration of Independence was a wise thing to do.

“Any submission to, or dependence on, Great Britain, tends directly to involve this continent in European wars and quarrels, and set us at variance [odds] with nations who would otherwise seek our friendship and against whom we have neither anger nor complaint. As Europe is our market for trade, we ought to form no partial connection with any part of it. ’Tis the true interest of America to steer clear of European contentions, which she can never do while by her dependence on Britain she is made the weight in the scale of British politics.”

— Thomas Paine,  Common Sense, 1776

What does Paine see as the problem with remaining under British rule?

Words about equality in the Declaration of Independence reflected the Enlightenment ideas of

• Benjamin Franklin.

• John Locke.

• Samuel Adams.

“Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What should they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

— Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry’s famous words:

• were spoken right before he was executed.

• inspired his countrymen to raise a militia.

• inspired Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence.

Under the __________, everyone in France was divided into one of three social classes.

The three social classes in France in 1789 were made up of what groups?

• the church, the bourgeoisie, and the peasants

• nobles, clergy, and the rest of society

• the king, the court, and the rest of society

What or whom did Parisians hope to find when they stormed the Bastille?

• bread

• weapons

• Jacques Necker

As a first step toward writing a constitution, the National Assembly issued the

• Civil Constitution of the Clergy.

• Tennis Court Oath.

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

European rulers opposed the French Revolution because:

• they were afraid that revolutionary ideas would spread to their own countries.

• it granted more power to the French Catholic Church.

• the disruptions in France threatened world trade.

The French Revolution dislodged the old social order, overthrew the monarchy, and

• brought the Church under state control.

• joined France with Spain in an alliance.

• elevated the rights of both men and women.