Revolution Review

What are the unalienable rights from the Declaration of Independence?

• life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

• life, happiness and food

• citizenship, voting, liberty

• independence, good health, good looks

Why was Saratoga the turning point of the Revolutionary War?

• It convinced the French to join the Americans which ultimately helped the Americans to win the war.

• George Washington became general during that battle.

• The British began to surrender

• American Indian tribes decided to side with the Americans.

What was a grievance from the Declaration of Independence?

• Colonists were forced to quarter (shelter) soldiers in their home.

• Colonists were forced to name their first-born sons after the king.

• Colonists were forced to move past the Appalachian mountains.

• Colonists were forced to use British money.

This was a tax on all printed paper in the 13 Colonies.

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

• Townshend Act

Finish this American Colonist Motto, "No Taxation without..."

• Transportation
• Relaxation
• Representation
• Sensation

This event when a mob of American colonists ganged up on British soldiers to protest. Soldiers fired into the crowd and killed five people. Crispus Attucks was the first to be killed.

• Lexington and Concord

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Bloody Valentine

How did the colonists protest against the tea tax?

• Dressed up like Native Americans

• Creating a mob to harm British soldiers

• Dumped tea into Boston harbor

• Didn't pay the tax on the East India Tea

How did Parliament punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party?

• Passing the Intolerable or Coercive Acts

• Passing the Sugar Act

• Passing the Quartering Act

• Passing the Stamp Act

Which action by the king forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Proclamation line of 1763

• Proclamation boundary

• Manifest Destiny

• Borderlands

What does Quartering mean? (think cuarto de estar in Spanish)

• Providing food and shelter for soldiers

• Hitting someone with a quarter

• To pay soldiers in quarters

• Giving a quarter of your earnings to Britain