Match the Person or Term with the with the Correct

question 103

Multiple Choice

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-John Sullivan

• A)black poet
• B)Pennsylvania radical
• C)Thoughts on Government author
• D)burned forty Indian towns
• E)America's first Roman Catholic bishop
• F)minister who spoke of liberty for blacks
• G)The Selling of Joseph author
• H)soldier in Continental Army
• I)drafted Virginia's "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom"
• J)"Remember the ladies"
• K)The Wealth of Nations author
• L)"asylum to the persecuted and oppressed" for religion

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