American Revolution CyberHunt
Directions: Click on the
links to find the answers to the questions. Use complete sentences for
your answers and write your answers in your notebook.
The
Proclamation of 1763
1. What did the Proclamation of 1763 prohibit?
2. Why was the law put into effect?
The
Sugar Act
3. What did the Sugar Act tax?
4. Why did the colonists dislike the tax?
The
Stamp Act and Quartering Act
5. Why was the Stamp Act created?
6. What did the Stamp Act tax?
7. What principle did the colonists say this tax violated?
8. Why was the Stamp Act repealed?
9. What did the Quartering Act
require the colonists do?
10. How do you think you would have reacted to the Quartering Act?
No
Taxation without Representation
11. Why did the colonists complain, "No taxation without representation?"
The
Boston Massacre
12. How many men died during the Boston Massacre?
13. How did the battle begin?
14. What caused the soldiers to fire their guns?
Boston Massacre Image
15. View the image. This image was created by silversmith Paul Revere.
What do you think the point of the image was?
Tea
Tax
16. How did the people of Boston respond to the tax on tea?
17. What did this event become know as?
The
Intolerable Acts
18. What was the reason the Intolerable Acts were put into place?
19. What did the Intolerable Acts do?
20. How did the colonists respond?
Common Sense
21. Who wrote Common Sense?
22. What did it encourage colonists do?
Patrick
Henry
23. What is Patrick Henry’s famous quote found at the end of the speech?
Lexington
and Concord
24. Why did General Gage send the British troops to Concord?
25. Who warned the colonists that the Red Coats were coming?
The Declaration of
Independence
26. Who wrote it? What was it about? When was it
signed? Where was it signed? Why was it written?
Lexington
and Concord
27. Who were the Loyalists?
28. Why do you think many of them went to Canada during the war?
The
Continental Army
29. Who was asked to command the Continental Army?
30. What problems existed at Valley Forge?
The bravery of women in the American revolution
31. Name 5 women who played a
vital role in the success of the American Revolution. Write 1 fact about
each.
The
Battle of Saratoga
32. Why is the Battle of Saratoga considered the turning point of the war?
Yorktown
33. What happened at Yorktown?
Treaty
of Paris
34. What did the Treaty of Paris do?
America Wins
35. Why did the Americans win
the war?