US GOV Chapter 2 Test

Who wrote Common Sense?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Paul Revere

• Thomas Paine

• George Mason

John Locke believed people were entitled to three ideas (select all three)...

• Life

• Liberty

• Pursuit of Happiness

• Property

Who was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army?

• George Washington

• Benedict Arnold

• Charles Lee

• Horatio Gates

Which tax put a fee on legal documents, newspapers, etc.?

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Boston Harbor Act

• Sugar Act

What three unalienable rights did Thomas Jefferson write in the Declaration of Independence?

• Life

• Liberty

• Property

• Pursuit of Happiness

Colonists loyal to King George III and Great Britain were called...

• Tories

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Nationalists

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

• Thomas Paine

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Patrick Henry

Which of the following prohibited colonists from moving WEST of the Appalachian Mountains?

• Proclamation of 1763

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

Supporters of American independence were called...

• Loyalists

• Tories

• Nationalists

• Patriots

Great Britain's Parliament passed which of the following after the Boston Tea Party?

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Boston Restrictive Acts