2.02 Lead Up To the Revolution Part II

Question 1:

What message is the cartoon trying to convey?

A. The British Empire is too big and should be cut in pieces.


B. There are too many snakes in the colonies.


C. The colonies shouldn't pay taxes.


D. The American colonies should unite.

Question 2:
Excerpt from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

As to government matters, it is not in the powers of Britain to do this continent justice: The business of it will soon be too weighty, and intricate (complicated), to be managed with any tolerable degree of convenience (easily), by a power, so distant from us, and so very ignorant of us; for if they cannot conquer us, they cannot govern us. To be always running three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition (correspondence between the colonies and Britain), waiting four or five months for an answer, which when obtained requires five or six more to explain it in, will in a few years be looked upon as folly and childishness—there was a time when it was proper, and there is a proper time for it to cease (end).

What is the argument Paine is making in this paragraph?

A. Britain is too big to effectively govern America.

B. The British are unfairly taxing the American colonies.

C. Britain is too far away and doesn't understand the American people.

D. The Americans should accept British rule for next 20 years.

Question 3:
The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription (Partial) IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

In the first paragraph, what is main point that Jefferson is making?

A. That the colonists need to make sure that they follow the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God.

B. It is important to follow the course of human events.

C. It is necessary that the colonies separate themselves politically from the British.

D. Mankind needs to separate itself from the Laws of Nature.

Question 4:

Why was the battle of Lexington considered so significant?

A. It was George Washington's first battle ever.

B. Thousands of colonists were killed.

C. The Indians finally decided to support the colonial militiamen.

D. It was the first battle between the colonists and the British troops.


Question 5:

Which of the following ideas does not appear in the Declaration of Rights section of the Declaration of Independence?

A. Governments get their power from the consent of the people they govern.

B. Women should have a voice in government.

C. People have a right to abolish a government that does not protect their rights.

D. Everybody has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.