Liberty - Mrs. Cappiello's History Class



Liberty!

The American Revolution

The Reluctant Revolutionaries

Question Sheet

1. During the decade before the outbreak of war, what were the two major attitudes of the colonists toward Parliament and the British Empire?

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2. Why were they glad to be in the British Empire?

3. Describe how colonists who were leaders of the colonial opposition to Parliament’s authority might have seen themselves and/or what they believed.

4. Why would George Washington feel it more necessary to join the “other side” against the British?

5. Is it possible to separate the American Revolution (a new way of thinking about government, where power lay in the hands of the people) from the American Revolutionary War (American’s fight for independence)? Why or why not?

6. How do the views of Thomas Paine in Common Sense help to separate the idea of the war from the overall Revolution?

7. What could have prevented the colonists’ declaring independence and going to war?

8. Why did a minority of colonists continue to move toward independence and volunteer to fight for this cause?

Liberty!

The American Revolution

Blows Must Decide

Question Sheet

1. What was the reaction of Parliament to the Bostonians' dumping of the tea into their harbor?

2. State at least four major results of the fall 1774 meeting of the Continental Congress.

3. What was the attitude of King George III toward the colonists who continued to resist the authority and rule of Parliament and the royal officials in the colonies?

4. State the reasons why King George III viewed the situation in the colonies as being a rebellion.

5. What were three major consequences of the events that took place in and around Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775?

6. What were the results of the events that took place in and around Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill in mid-June 1775?

7. What were the reasons why the Continental Congress decided to form a standing army that would represent the united colonies?

8. What were the major reasons why George Washington was selected as the commanding general of the Continental army?

9. State at least three characteristics of the army that George Washington found on his arrival in Cambridge as commanding general.

10. State at least three reasons why blacks would have enlisted in the Continental army.

11. What was the "olive branch petition" and why King George III refused such a petition?

12. State at least three reasons why John Dickinson might have said that "we need Britain. We need Britain to hold ourselves together."

13. What were two reasons why John Adams believed that Americans would celebrate July 2, 1776, as their "day of deliverance?"

14. State at least three ideas that historians Gordon Wood and John Keegan had about the meaning of Congress's approval of the resolution for independence.

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