Governor's Race Study Test #6

1. Which Virginians supported the British (English) in the Revolutionary War?

Loyalists

Lyricists

Lions

2. Who was the slave that was a spy for the Continental army and earned his freedom after the war?

John Jacob Astor

James Armistead Lafayette

Jimmy Michael Washington

3. What was the first land battle, of the American Revolution, fought in Virginia?

Battle of Big Hill

Battle of Large Hole

Battle of Great Bridge

4. Which Virginians served in the Continental Army and fought for independence?

Poets

Patriots

Parrots

5. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Andrew Jackson

Thomas Jefferson

Abraham Lincoln

6. While the men were fighting the war, the women took on more responsibility at home.

True

False

7. Parliment believed it had the right to do what in the colonies?

The right to move them

The right to tax them

The right to send them to war

8. Why did the colonies believe they shouldn't be taxed by Parliment?

The colonies were not large enough

The colonies had no representation in Parliment

They felt sad about it

9. What three things did the Declaration of Independence state? (choose three answers)

Authority to govern belongs to the people

All people are created equal

Always keep your doors locked

All people have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Submit

10. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

July 4, 1776

June 13, 1975

January 10, 1823

11. Who rode on horseback through the backwoods of Virginia to Charlottesville to warn Thomas Jefferson the British were coming to arrest him?

Peter Lewis

Jack Jouett

Homer Simpson

12. The colonies and the English Parliment argued over what issue?

How the colonies should be governed

How the country should be split

How the community should be built

13. Who served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army?

Thomas Jefferson

Andrew Jackson

George Washington

14. Who provided the most military leadership to Virginia and the colonies during the Revolutionary War?

George Washington

Abraham Lincoln

John Adams

15. Who did the colonists believe had legal authority over them?

Their local assemblies (government)

Kings and Queens

No one

16. Which group fought for a better chance at freedom?

Enslaved African Americans

White Americans

Native Americans

17. The American victory at Great Bridge forced the British colonial governor to flee which city?

Newport News

Virginia Beach

Norfolk

18. Which group had many of its members to fight alongside the Virginia patriots, while other fought with the British?

American Indians

African Americans

Women

19. Which group fought for independence from Britain?

Free African Americans

African American Slaves

Native Americans

20. Who provided the most political leadership during the Revolutionary War?

George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

Abraham Lincoln

Governor's Race Study Test #6

1. Which Virginians supported the British (English) in the Revolutionary War?

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. Who was the slave that was a spy for the Continental army and earned his freedom after the war?

3. What was the first land battle, of the American Revolution, fought in Virginia?

4. Which Virginians served in the Continental Army and fought for independence?

5. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

6. While the men were fighting the war, the women took on more responsibility at home.

7. Parliment believed it had the right to do what in the colonies?

8. Why did the colonies believe they shouldn't be taxed by Parliment?

9. What three things did the Declaration of Independence state? (choose three answers)

10. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

11. Who rode on horseback through the backwoods of Virginia to Charlottesville to warn Thomas Jefferson the British were coming to arrest him?

12. The colonies and the English Parliment argued over what issue?

13. Who served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army?

14. Who provided the most military leadership to Virginia and the colonies during the Revolutionary War?

15. Who did the colonists believe had legal authority over them?

16. Which group fought for a better chance at freedom?

17. The American victory at Great Bridge forced the British colonial governor to flee which city?

18. Which group had many of its members to fight alongside the Virginia patriots, while other fought with the British?

19. Which group fought for independence from Britain?

20. Who provided the most political leadership during the Revolutionary War?