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1) In 1750, which country posed the most serious threat to the English colonies in North America?



2) Which group of people did Samuel Adams create that helped build outrage among other colonists?



3) Why did many colonists protest the Stamp Act?



4) What reason did Parliament give for raising taxes in the colonies after 1763?



5) What is one way that Britain punished Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party?



6) What did King George’s Proclamation of 1763 do in North America?



7) What immediate action did the Second Continental Congress take as a result to the fighting at Lexington and Concord?




8) What are the three main ideas in the Declaration of Independence?




9) What is the idea of natural rights?



10) According to the Declaration of Independence, the people have the right to alter or abolish a government if that government does what?



11) Which battle became a turning point of the war because it prompted the French to join the Patriots?



12) When Richard Henry Lee said he was now “convinced of the necessity of separation,” he was describing the influence of which document that we studied?



13) Thomas Paine is known for writing which document that we studied?



14) What was a major advantage of the American side in the Revolutionary War?



15) The American victory in the Revolutionary War led to what taking place around the world?


1) You will be given a document to read and answer the question “Did the American Revolution Accomplish its Goals?”

Answer 1

1.) Britin/Spain 2.) Sons of Liberty

3.)These taxes included the Stamp Act, passed in 1765, which required the use of special paper bearing an embossed tax stamp for all legal documents. They protested, saying that these taxes violated their rights as British citizens. The colonists started to resist by boycotting, or not buying, British goods.

4.)Britain also needed money to pay for its war debts. The King and Parliament believed they had the right to tax the colonies. They decided to require several kinds of taxes from the colonists to help pay for the French and Indian War

5.)Upset by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property by American colonists, the British Parliament enacts the Coercive Acts, to the outrage of American Patriots, on March 28, 1774. The Coercive Acts were a series of four acts established by the British government.

6.)The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. Decreed on October 7, 1763, the Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War.

7.)It made George Washington commander of the American army.

8.)The Declaration of Independence included these three major ideas: People have certain Inalienable Rights including Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness. All Men are created equal. Individuals have a civic duty to defend these rights for themselves and others.

9.)Locke wrote that all individuals are equal in the sense that they are born with certain "inalienable" natural rights. That is rights that are God-given and can never be taken or even given away. Among these fundamental natural rights, Locke said, are "life, liberty, and property."

10.)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.

11.)Battle of Saratoga

12.) Common Sense

13.)Common Sense

14.) Advantages the helped the Americans win the Revolutionary War include: better leadership, foreign aid, knowledge of the land, and motivation.

15.)The Revolution opened new markets and new trade relationships. The Americans' victory also opened the western territories for invasion and settlement, which created new domestic markets. Americans began to create their own manufacturers, no longer content to reply on those in Britain.