Unit 2: The American Revolution Review

  1. Who wrote Common Sense and what was its intended message?
  2. What was taxed under the Stamp Act?
  3. What does “No taxation without representation” mean?
  4. Why would Samuel Adams print the headline “Boston Massacre” after only five colonists were killed?
  5. Which act was meant to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party?
  6. Which act allowed the king to continue to station his soldiers in the colonies?
  7. What new controls/punishments were enacted under the Intolerable Acts?
  8. What did the “Join or Die” cartoon urge colonists to do?

(DC only) What was the message of the “Horse bucking its master” cartoon?

  1. What did the delegates agree to do at the First Continental Congress?
  2. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
  3. In the Declaration of Independence, what is the preamble?
  4. In the Declaration of Independence, what are the grievances?
  5. According the authors of the Declaration of Independence, from what source does government get its power to govern?
  6. What are the “unalienable rights” listed in the Declaration of Independence? 
  7. When was the Declaration of Independence signed?
  8. Adams and Jefferson’s paths crossed many times in their lives.  What did they have in common?  What was their biggest difference?
  9. What is another name of the colonists determined to fight the British for independence?
  10. What kind of soldiers were the minutemen?
  11. Who was commander of the American forces during the war?
  12. Who warned that the British were coming and before which battle?
  13. At which battle did the American general order, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes”?
  14. What happened at Valley Forge?
  15. Who surrendered the British forces and after which battle?
  16. What document officially ended the Revolutionary War?
  17. What did we borrow from the Judeo-Christian societies, Greco-Roman society, Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, and English Parliament?