Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 37

Multiple Choice

Match each description with the item below.
-John Locke

• A)was a stubborn British general in the French and Indian War who viewed Native Americans with contempt
• B)was a Virginia planter chosen to lead the Continental army due to his service in the French and Indian War
• C)was a radical journalist in Philadelphia who wrote a pamphlet directly attacking the king rather than simply directing grievances at Parliament
• D)was a lawyer and one of the few Whigs who demanded freedom for African Americans and women
• E)was the Patriot who warned rebel leaders of a British military advance near Lexington
• F)was an English philosopher whose Two Treatises on Government had a large impact on political thought in the colonies
• G)was a British prime minister during the French and Indian War who adopted the military policy of treating the colonies as allies
• H)was a Patriot radical who organized the Sons of Liberty as well as the Committee of Correspondence
• I)was the British prime minister who grappled with the expenses of maintaining troops in America and proposed the Stamp Act
• J)was America's first African American poet and wrote of the "oppressive power" of white colonists

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