Revolutionary Era Review

REVIEW GAME• Each team will take turns answering a

question.• If a team answers incorrectly, the next team

will get a chance to steal that question.

1. Describe the economic theory of mercantilism and how

it connects to colonization.Mercantilism is an economic theory that a nation’s power depends on its wealth. Colonies are created to enrich the mother country by supplying raw materials and purchase finished goods from the mother country.

Revolutionary Era Review

2. Describe 2 effects of the French and Indian War.

• France is forced out of North America• Britain’s debt from the war results in taxes being imposed on the

American colonies• Proclamation Line of 1763• Colonies learned how to unite against a common foe

Revolutionary Era Review

3. I am a well-known colonist who was a printer, and inventor and a

Patriot who created the Albany Plan and served as a diplomat to France during the Revolutionary War. Who

am I?

Benjamin Franklin

Revolutionary Era Review

4. Describe the Proclamation Line of 1763 and how the American colonists

reacted to it.Britain forbade the colonists from expanding west past the Appalachian Mountains to avoid more conflicts with Native Americans. Colonists wanted to expand into the western land which they had won from France, and they resented the restriction of the Proclamation Line.

Revolutionary Era Review

5. The British imposed a tax on the colonists on legal documents,

newspapers, wills, and many other paper goods. This was called

the____

Stamp Act (1765)

Revolutionary Era Review

6. What was the most effective way for the

colonists to oppose these new taxes?

boycotts

Revolutionary Era Review

7. Describe in detail the colonists reaction to the Tea

Act of 1773.Boston Tea Party – Sons of Liberty organized a protest of the Tea Act in which colonists

Revolutionary Era Review

8. Colonists argued that these new British taxes were unfair because

the colonists had no voice in Parliament. Their rallying cry was

“________!”

“no taxation without representation”

Revolutionary Era Review

9. What was the British response to the Boston Tea

Party?The Intolerable Acts (banned town meetings, closed Boston harbor, Quartering Act)

Revolutionary Era Review

10. What were the colonists who wanted to remain a colony of Britain called?

loyalists

Revolutionary Era Review

11. What were the colonists who wanted independence

from Britain called?

patriots

Revolutionary Era Review

12. Who was the monarch of Britain during the

Revolutionary Era?

King George III

Revolutionary Era Review

13. Who was the Indian/African mixed race man who was killed at the

Boston Massacre?Crispus Attucks

Revolutionary Era Review

14. What did the Quartering Act require?

That colonists had to provide housing, food, blankets, etc. to British soldiers

Revolutionary Era Review

15. What pamphlet distributed in the American colonies

presented logical arguments for separation from Britain?

Common Sense 1776

Revolutionary Era Review

16. Who was the American colonist lawyer who

defended British soldiers after the Boston Massacre?

John Adams

Revolutionary Era Review

17. Who was the colonist patriot who said “give me liberty or give me death?”

Patrick Henry

Revolutionary Era Review

18. The first battles of the Revolutionary War took place at__________ and

__________

Lexington and Concord (1775)

Revolutionary Era Review

19. Describe the sections of the Declaration of

Independence. Preamble, Declaration of Rights, List of Grievances, Conclusion

Revolutionary Era Review

20. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote about “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” What did

he call these rights?

Unalienable rights (natural rights)

Revolutionary Era Review

20. Which Enlightenment thinker influenced Jefferson’s

ideas concerning natural rights?

John Locke

Revolutionary Era Review

21. Describe 3 actions of the 2nd Continental Congress..

Creating the Continental ArmyAppointing Washington supreme commanderOlive Branch PetitionDeclaration of Independence

Revolutionary Era Review

22. I was the Spanish governor of the territory of Louisiana who helped the colonists fight the

British during the Revolutionary War. Who am I?

Bernardo de Galvez

Revolutionary Era Review

40. Put the following events in chronological order:Battle of SaratogaDeclaration of IndependenceMayflower CompactGeorge Washington becomes 1st PresidentStamp ActLexington and Concord

Mayflower Compact, Stamp Act, Lexington and Concord, Declaration of Independence, Battle of Saratoga, Washington 1st President

Revolutionary Era Review

22. Describe the significance of Valley Forge to the Revolutionary War.

Washington and his troops survived a difficult winter at Valley Forge where soldiers suffered from hunger, lack of warm clothing, diseases, and desertion.

Revolutionary Era Review

23. Explain why the Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary

War.British strategy to separate New England from the rest of the colonies failsThis American victory convinced the French to join the war on side of the Americans

Revolutionary Era Review

24. Who was the African American patriot who spied for the Americans during the

Revolution?James Armistead

Revolutionary Era Review

25. Who was the American naval commander who won sea

battles against the British during the Revolutionary War?

John Paul Jones

Revolutionary Era Review

26. Who was the Frenchman who joined the American

cause because of his belief in liberty?

Marquis de Lafayette – trained American soldiers and was with Washington at Valley Forge

Revolutionary Era Review

27. Name the battle fought in 1781 in which Washington and his army trapped and captured

important British generals.

Battle of Yorktown (1781)

Revolutionary Era Review

28. What treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War

in 1783?

Treaty of Paris

Revolutionary Era Review

29. At the end of 1776, colonies were referred to as

states. What significant event caused this change?

1776 – Declaration of Independence

Revolutionary Era Review

30. According to the Declaration of Independence,

the main purpose of government is to _______.

Protect the rights of individuals

Revolutionary Era Review

31. ________ is the term used to describe how Britain mostly ignored the American colonies and did not enforce taxes and regulations until

the French and Indian War.

Salutary Neglect

Revolutionary Era Review

32. I wrote letters to my husband asking him to “remember the ladies”

as he worked in the Continental Congress. Who am I?

Abigail Adams

Revolutionary Era Review

33. How many colonists were killed at the Boston Massacre in 1770?

5

Revolutionary Era Review

34. Where did the 1st and 2nd Continental Congress take place?

Philadelphia

Revolutionary Era Review

35. Describe one argument Thomas Paine used to argue for separation

from Britain in Common Sense.Government should only exist to protect rightsHereditary succession is unnaturalBritain only cares about its own well-beingBritain’s debt becomes the colonists’ debt (separate for the kids)Being attached to Britain hurts American relations with EuropeAmerica, as colonies, will never have the respect of the rest of the world

Revolutionary Era Review

36. Name one act of civil disobedience by the colonists during the Revolutionary Era.

Tar and feathering tax collectorsThrowing tea into the Boston Harbor

Revolutionary Era Review

37. Explain this political cartoon.

The Albany Plan of Union

Revolutionary Era Review

38. Explain the history behind this painting.

Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas night to surprise the British (Hessian) army

Revolutionary Era Review

39. I was a Jewish merchant and banker who helped finance the

American Revolution. Who am I?

Haym Salomon

Revolutionary Era Review

40. Put the following events in chronological order:YorktownValley ForgeBoston MassacreJamestown foundedOlive Branch PetitionFrench and Indian War

Jamestown founded, French and Indian War, Boston Massacre, Olive Branch Petition, Valley Forge, Yorktown

Revolutionary Era Review