American Revolution

Question 1

What grievances did colonists have with the King of England?

Answer 1

Taxes

Question 2

Taxation without representation? Advantages colonists had that helped with the war?

Answer 2

British citizens consented to taxes through representatives in Parliament. Colonists had no representation in Parliament. They argued they couldn’t be taxes because of that. Had leadership, aid, land knowledge, and motivation.

Question 3

Boston Tea Party

Answer 3

Colonists dumped a large load of British tea into the Boston Harbor to protest the import tax on tea.

Question 4

Inalienable Rights

Answer 4

Recognition of the inherent dignity and the equal rights if all members of the human family is the foundation if freedom, justice, and peace in the world.

Question 5

France role in the Revolutionary War

Answer 5

Helped the colonists. Provided money, troops, equipment, military leadership, and naval support.

Question 6

What the colonists had to deal with after they defeated England

Answer 6

Create a gov’t

Question 7

Stamp Act

Answer 7

A law where colonists had to pay a tax to have an official stamp put on wills, deeds, newspapers, and other printed material.

Question 8

Enlightenment thinkers that influenced the Declaration of Independence and U.S Constitution

Answer 8

John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, and Jean Jacques Rousseau

Question 9

Treatment of Enslaved Africans

Answer 9

If they served in the war they would be granted freedom.

Question 10

Importance of family among slaves

Answer 10

Families torn apart. Family ties strong so when they escaped they tried to find their relatives.

Question 11

Connect scientific revolution, enlightenment, American revolution, and the Atlantic slave trade to the slave rebellion.

Answer 11

Nat Turner’s slave rebellion. Took revenge on their owners and killed them. Led slaved being killed even if they didn’t participate. The scientific revolution was a new way of thinking about the natural world. The enlightenment helped with new ideas. With the American revolution they thought they could start their own to get freed. The Atlantic slave trade was when Africans were shipped to the Americas from Europe.

Question 12

Types of people during the revolution.

Answer 12

Loyalists (supported Englands ruling), patriots (wanted freedom and rejected their ruling), neutral (didn’t participate or choose; didn’t want war)

Question 13

Dispatches

Answer 13

Messengers

Question 14

What are they arguing about at the statehouse?

Answer 14

Taxes and independence

Question 15

Militia

Answer 15

An army of non-professional soldiers from civil population

Question 16

What happened during the Battle of the Cowpens?

Answer 16

They devised a plan where the militia would be at the front of battle. They would then retreat with the British chasing after them, which would lead to another set of soldiers where the British would be forced to retreat.

Question 17

Who is Cornwallis?

Answer 17

A British general that surrendered which ended the war.