American Revolutionary War Study Guide Part I

Question 1

What led the English colonists to write the Declaration of Independence and launching the American Revolution?

Answer 1

The ideas of the Enlightenment and dissatisfaction.

Question 2

What led to the American Revolutionary War?

Answer 2

The chain of political, economic, and social changes that occurred during the Enlightenment.

Question 3

What were the events that led to the American Revolutionary War?

Answer 3

A. Sugar Act - a law taxing sugar and molasses.
B. Tea Act - a law meant to stop the illegal smuggling of tea into the North American British colonies.
C. Intolerable - a series of laws meant to reassert British control over the colony of Massachusetts following the Boston Tea Party.
D. Quartering Act - a law stating that colonists had to feed and house British soldiers.

Question 4

What’s the summarized outcome of the American Revolution based on Ohio’s learning standards in Social Studies?

Answer 4

National Independence from Britain and new political, social, and economic relationships for the American people.

Question 5

What’s one immediate result of the American Revolutionary War?

Answer 5

The American people found themselves having to adjust to new series of relationships. The thirteen colonies had to transition into sovereign states loosely united as a confederation.

Question 6

What an immediate set of concerns with which the new United States under the article of confederation had to grapple following the American Revolutionary War?

Answer 6

Each state had to create new governing documents, address issues such as who would become citizens and with what rights, decide whether or not there would be established churches, and decide how to deal, with the issue of slavery.