Day 5 Warm-Up: American Revolution

Wealth, religion, expand empires, claim territory

• Fundamental orders of Connecticut
• Mayflower Compact
• Reasons for exploration
• Virginia House of Burgesses

Pilgrims wrote document that established self-government

• Fundamental orders of Connecticut
• Mayflower Compact
• Reasons for exploration
• Virginia House of Burgesses

First representative legislature

• Fundamental orders of Connecticut
• Mayflower Compact
• Reasons for exploration
• Virginia House of Burgesses

Allowed citizens to elect representatives

• Fundamental orders of Connecticut
• Mayflower Compact
• Reasons for exploration
• Virginia House of Burgesses

Which characteristic explains the significant role of each colonial individual?     

Groups:

(a) Mercy Otis Warren

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(b) Abigail Adams

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(c) Samuel Adams

• Wrote propaganda against the British

• Used acts of civil disobedience to protest taxation

• Wrote about the patriot cause and women’s rights

The Intolerable Acts led to the American Revolutionary War because –

• Britain declared it would use force to make colonists pay taxes
• the colonists could no longer tolerate any more laws that took away their liberties
• it authorized the arrest of Samuel Adams, a hero to the colonists
• King George III would no longer tolerate the colonists civil disobedience

The dumping of million of dollars worth of British tea into the Boston Harbor is known as -

• civil disobedience
• the Boston Tea Party
• writs of assistance
• Intolerable Acts

The Intolerable Acts consisted of King George III - select Two correct answers

• creating an alliance between British settlers and American Indians
• forcing colonists to house, or quarter, British soldiers in their homes
• closing the Boston Harbor until the colonists paid back money for the tea.
• expansion of British trade in the Americas

The factors listed below contributed most to the -

• creation of alliances between British settlers and American Indians
• election of British colonists to Parliament
• growth of representative government in the British colonies
• expansion of British trade in the Americas

From 1690 to 1760, Parliament and the king of England allowed colonists in America to exercise a great deal of control over local and regional matters. Historians have described this practice as "salutary neglect." Which of the following happened as a direct result of this policy?

• The colonies developed a strong tradition of self-government.
• Many proprietary colonies were converted to royal colonies.
• The colonies refused to participate in a system of common defense.
• Many colonies sought economic aid from other countries.