American Revolution Must-Knows Visual Review

American Revolution Must-Knows Visual Review

Clearly Great Britain (and other countries like France and Spain) believed in the idea of setting up colonies to benefit economically from them. Question #1 What is the economic idea that the more money a mother country has the more power it has?

French and Indian War Causes Question #2 - How are the two pictures connected to reasons why the colonists and French fought?

Question #3 - What should you notice?

Question #4 - What 3 steps should you take when you see a political cartoon?

Question #5 - Write a sentence to explain how the following words are connected to the political cartoon. Unite French and Indian War Ben Franklin 13 colonies Albany Plan of Union

This cartoon connects to the previous sentence? Question #6 - What is the significance of letters A, B, C, D? B A C D

Question #7 - What was the end result of the French and Indian War?

Question #8 - What officially ended the French and Indian War? Question #9 - But even though the French were gone who was still here and posed a threat to the colonies?

Question #10 - After the French and Indian War explain the connection to the following pics

Identify the following taxes

Question #11-1 st tax specifically aimed at raising revenue ($$$$$) from the colonies?

Question #12 Stamp Act required colonists to pay a tax on any????

Parliament later repealed the Stamp Act Question #13 - what does this mean? This felt like a victory for the colonists, but it was short lived, because Parliament passed the Question #14, asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies

Question #15 This act taxed the following 5 items: Lead Paper Paint Tea Glass

After thinking about all of these unfair taxes James Otis said, No Taxation Without Representation! Question #16 - What does it mean?

Question #17 - A - Group? B - Action? C - Liberty Tree? D - Background Action? E - Why Stamp Act upside down on tree? F - Leader of group?

Question #18 - Created in Massachusetts in the mid 1760 s to help towns and colonies share info about resisting the new British laws

Question #19 - Who was the founder of the Committees of Correspondence?

Question #20 - Event?

Question #21 - Boston Massacre Connect the following in a few sentences. Paul Revere Crispus Attucks Propaganda

Question #22 Event? A - Who involved? B - Protesting what? C - How did the British respond to this event? D - Your TEKS view the Boston Tea Party as civil disobedience how?

Question #23 - What connection can you make between the following actions? Refusing to pay taxes Smuggling Boycotting goods

Question #24 - Forms that allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods? Like today s search warrant

Question #25 Taken from James Otis 5 hour speech about Writs of Assistance: What s his position on the issue? Why? I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is. It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law-book Position? Why?

Question #26 - Event? AKA? Why?

Question #27 - Event? Significance? Who is person A? B? Group C? C B C A

Question #28 - What are personal liberties that the government is designed to protect called?

Question #29 - Unalienable Rights What are they?

Question #30 - What Revolutionary War Document is this? Main Author? We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Question #31 - In your own words, what is meant by the following line: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

Question # 32 - In your own words, what is meant by the following line: That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

Question #33 - In your own words, what is meant by the following line: That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government

In the Declaration of Independence the Americans list grievances A lot of grievances start with the word He. Question #34 - Who does He refer to? What idea does each grievance represent? - A = He kept among us in times of peace, standing Armies. - B = He imposed taxes on us without our Consent. - C = For cutting off trade with all parts of the world.

Question #35 - Event? Another word for these men in the boats?

Battle of Saratoga Question # 36 - Known as the. Question #37 - Why?

Question #38 - Event? Significance? Person A, B, C? A C B

Question #39 - What is the name of this source??? THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Question #40 - Even though The Crisis was read to the troops before crossing the icy Delaware River on Christmas Eve before the Battle of Trenton, how could the same ideas be connected to Valley Forge?

Question #41 - Event? Who is person A? B? A B

Question #42 - Event? Significance? Who is Person A? A

Question #43 - What connection can you make with the following? Thomas Paine s Common Sense Mercy Otis Warren s play, The Blockheads Paul Revere s Boston Massacre Engraving

Question #44 - What is propaganda?

Question #45 - The man that Patriots love to hate?

Question #46 - Who said? What is the meaning in relationship to the Revolutionary War? "Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle?... Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"

Question #47 - Who? Role played during the American Revolution?

Question #48 - Just like Paul Revere, but African American who actually got the job done!

Question #49 - Which American patriot should you think of when you think of

Question #50 - He served as a spy for the Patriots who was posing as a runaway slave. He helped provide information for the Battle of Yorktown.

Question #51 - Spaniard who helped the Patriots by allowing them to use the Spanish owned port of New Orleans as well as the Mississippi River

Question #52 - Commander of the Continental Army. Possessed character traits important for a leader, such as: honesty, courage, inspirational, and thoughtful.

Question #53 - Who Said??? Significance? Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particuliar care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment (start) a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.

Question #54 - Played a key role in the Continental Congress. Besides Jefferson and Franklin he served as 1 of 5 on the committee to write the Declaration of Independence.

Question #55 - Frenchman who was a close friend of Washington. He believed strongly in what American were fighting for so he helped the Patriots by commanding forces in the colonial army.

Question #56 - Leader of the Continental Navy and said as his ship was sinking, I have not yet begun to fight!