AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR NOTES
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
Factual Question: Why did the Americans stand up to the British?
Debatable Question: What do you stand for?
Conceptual Question: Is it always in your best interest to stand up for what you believe?
Use this link to answer 1 - 2 about the 13 colonies. Take the quiz and write your scores down.
1. What score did you get?
2. Take the quiz a second time and write your score down.
Use the following links and charts to answer the entire chart for question 3.
Use this link to find the leaders for the British and the Americans for question 3. |
Read the chart and write the advantages and disadvantages for the British and the Americans for question 3.
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Use this link to summarize Paul Revere's Ride for question 4. Only read the "Paul Revere's Ride" section.
Use this link to answer questions 5-14 about the Battle Lexington and Concord.
5. On the map, which color are the colonists? (hint: they’re called patriot troops)
6. Which color are the British?
7. When did this battle happen?
8. Lieutenant Colonel Smith went to Concord to destroy ________________________.
9. Patriot riders went to warn the colonists. The riders were Paul Revere, Sybil Ludington, and who else?
10. How many minutemen were with Captain Parker at Lexington green?
11. Where was the first shot of the war fired?
12. True or False: The British found the colonists’ supplies in Concord.
13. How many British soldiers were killed or wounded?
14. Which side won the Battle of Concord?
Watch the movie to answer questions 15-29 about the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
15. What year was the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
16. The American militia was a "fighting force of _____________________ Americans".
17. True or False: The American militias were formed to protect themselves.
18. What month, day, year, and time did the British leave Boston?
19. How many British redcoats left Boston?
20. What were the British orders? (There are two)
21. Who was the the American leader at Lexington?
22. Why were the Americans fighting?
23. True or False: African Americans and freed slaves fought next to the Americans at Lexington.
24. Who fired the first shot at Lexington?
25. Did the Americans win or lose at Lexington?
26. Did the British take the Americans guns at Concord?
27. How many Americans gathered outside the town of Concord?
28. Did the American or British win at Concord?
29. How many British were killed at Concord?
Use Documents 1 and 2 to answer the questions 30-36 about who fired first at Lexington.
Document 1
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Document 2
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30. Who wrote Document 1?
31. Who wrote Document 2?
32. Was Barker an American or British soldier?
33. Who did Barker claim fired the first shot?
34. Was Barrett an American or British solder?
35. Who did Barrett claim fired the first shot?
36. Who do you think fired the first shot at Lexington?
Listen to your teacher blab to answer questions 37-43 about George Washington.
37. True or False: George Washington was only in the American military.
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Look at the chart below to answer questions 44-48.
44. How many American soldiers were killed and wounded at Bunker Hill?
45. How many British soldiers were killed and wounded at Bunker Hill?
46. Why didn't the Americans win the Battle of Bunker Hill?
47. What was the outcome of the Battle of Bunker Hill?
48. What does this quote mean?
“I wish we could sell them another hill at the same price we did Bunker Hill.”
General Nathanael Green -American Soldier
Use the following link to answer questions 49-54 about the Battle of New York (Long Island).
49. When did this battle happen?
50. What was the British war strategy before 1778? (Hint: Use the top map to find the answer)
51. How many soldiers did the British have?
52. Where did General Washington and his army run away to?
53. What do historians think would have happened if General Howe had pushed forward?
54. What did Washington’s army spend the rest of 1776 doing?
Choose ONE quote from Common Sense and answer the following questions 55-56.
Common Sense - Thomas Paine
Quote 1 - “The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. . . .”
Quote 2 - “The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth."
Quote 3 - "O! ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the Globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind."
55. What does the quote mean?
56. Why would this quote inspire Americans to write the Declaration of Independence and leave Britain?
Listen to your teacher blab about the Declaration of Independence to answer questions 57-61.
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