NJ and the American Revolution
Study Guide
Use the list of terms and notes that we completed together to study.
You can also review by watching the Brainpop videos about the Revolutionary War that we watched together in class. Username: livingston. Password: student.
“Liberty Kids” videos can be found through the link on the Social Studies page on my website.
Format of quiz:
Classification of events – Events are described. You decide “who did what” - the British or the Colonials?
Multiple choice
Sequencing of a few events (2 groups of 4) leading up to the Revolution
Short, constructed response
No definitions to be either memorized or matched.
The social studies vocabulary terms were learned and used during class discussion, videos, and reading of text book. These terms are used in the questions. Students need to understand, not memorize them, in order to use them in their writing.
Sequence events leading up to the Revolution and during the war
1. French and Indian War – 1754-1763
2. Stamp Act - 1765
3. The Quartering Act – 1765
4. Townsend Acts – 1767
5. Boston Massacre – 1770
6. The Tea Act - 1773
7. Boston & NJ Tea Party – 1773
8. British Blockade of Boston Harbor
9. First Continental Congress – 1774
10. The Intolerable Acts – 1774
11. Second Continental Congress - 1775
12. Shot Heard Around the World – 1775
13. Battles of Lexington and Concord – 4/1775
14. Declaration of Independence Written – 4/1776
15. Battle of Trenton – 12/1776
16. Winter Encampment at Morristown – 1779-1780
17. Battle of Yorktown – 1781
18. Treaty of Paris signed – 1783
List reasons with details explaining why NJ was important during the war
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Classify events or actions as done by the British or by the Colonists (B or C?)
¾ Placed Taxes on the colonists
¾ Started the Sons of Liberty
¾ Refused to buy Tea if there was a tax on it.
¾ Wanted colonists to pay for the French and Indian War
¾ Dropped all taxes on tea
¾ Burned British Tea in Greenwich, NJ
¾ Made the law that taxed glass
¾ Held a meeting called the First Continental Congress
Know vocabulary – used in questions or short answer – definitions not written out.
¾ Delegates
¾ Patriots
¾ Colonists
¾ Loyalists
¾ Taxes
¾ Militia
¾ Boycott
¾ Continental Army
¾ Parliament
¾ Redcoats
¾ Hessians
Know Terms
__Sons of Liberty
¾ French Allies
¾ Shot Heard Around the World
¾ Continental Congress(es)
¾ Declaration of Independence
¾ Peace Treaty
¾ Taxation without Representation
Know Famous People – know what they are famous for
¾ George Washington
¾ Lafayette
¾ General Cornwallis
¾ Paul Revere
¾ King George III
¾ William Livingston