Blows Must Decide – Video Questions
1. Name the acts passed by Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party.
2. What meeting are delegates chosen for in response to these acts?
3. Who was the Massachusetts delegate elected to the 1st Continental Congress?
4. What did John Adams have to convince the other delegates to do at this meeting?
5. What two Virginia delegates were sent to the meeting?
6. What did the petition by the Congress ask King George III for?
7. How did the British feel about the colonies’ decision to arm themselves?
8. In April 1775, where did the colonial militia first encounter British troops in battle?
9. Who fired the first shot?
10. What problem did the British now face for the first time?
11. How many British casualties fell at Lexington and Concord?
12. How different were the attitudes of the delegates at the 2nd Continental Congress?
13. Who was selected to command the Continental Army formed by the Congress?
14. Where did the first major battle of the Revolutionary War occur?
15. Why is this considered a British victory?
16. What kind of shape did Washington find his “army” in when he arrived in Massachusetts?
17. What also shocked Washington about his army?
18. How many black soldiers fought on both sides in the American Revolution?
19. How did John Dickinson of Pennsylvania feel about the American cause for independence?
20. What did Dickinson’s Olive Branch Petition attempt to do?
21. How did King George III receive the Olive Branch Petition?
22. What pamphlet published in early 1776 changed the face of the revolution?
23. What kind of background did Thomas Paine come from?
24. What did Paine believe was not necessary to properly govern a country?
25. What did Abigail Adams ask her husband to remember as Congress shaped the new government?
26. What final step was the Congress hesitant to take?