American Revolution Study Guide Test November 14

American Revolution Study Guide Test November 14

Mr. White

Be able to identify the significance or importance of the following events and how they would continue to drive a wedge between the Colonies and mother Country eventually resulting in open rebellion.

·  Salutary Neglect

·  Declaratory Act

·  Boston Tea Party

·  Stamp Act and reaction of colonies, Sons of Liberty, Stamp Act Congress

·  Proclamation Line of 1763

·  Quebec Act

·  Coercive or Intolerable Acts

·  Battles of Lexington and Concord. Importance?

·  “No taxation without representation”

·  Impact of the French and Indian war and England’s indebtedness.

·  Significant actions of the 2nd Continental Congress

·  What is the Olive Branch Petition? King’s Reaction?

·  Battle of Bunker Hill. Importance?

·  What was the significance of the following battles?

o  Trenton/Princeton

o  Saratoga

o  Yorktown

·  Who were the Hessians? How did colonists respond to them?

·  What was the Treaty of Alliance?

·  Describe the British war strategy.

·  What is the Declaration of Independence and what makes it so powerful and appealing?

Dates are important, but the sequencing of events is more important.

Be able to place key events in chronological order.

Identify The Following In relation to the war.

·  Sam Adams,

·  John Hancock,

·  John Adams,

·  Thomas Jefferson,

·  George Washington

·  Benedict Arnold

·  What role did the Marquis de Lafayette play in the war?

·  Loyalists or Tories

·  Patriots

·  What were the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1783)?

·  What role did Benjamin Franklin play in the war?

·  King George III

·  Thomas Paine and Common Sense

·  General Cornwallis

·  General Burgoyne

·  General Rochambeau

·  Admiral de Grasse

·  Who are the winners and losers of the Revolution?

Open Response will deal will Paul Revere’s broadside of the Boston Massacre