American Revolution Review (KMS)

Put these events from the American Revolution in chronological order:

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Yorktown

• Battles of Lexington and Concord

​ (a)   wrote the Declaration of Independence. In it, he said we all have ​ (b)   ​ such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of ​ (c)   .

• Thomas Jefferson
• Thomas Paine
• George Washington
• inalienable rights
• happiness
• stability
• human rights
• money

Match each grievance in the Declaration of Independence to the issue that the colonists had with the British.

• Taxation without representation

• He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people

• No freedom of assembly or petition

• He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our legislatures

• No trial by jury

• Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury

• Quartering of soldiers in their homes

• For depriving us in many cases of the benefits of Trial by Jury

Which of these was NOT an outcome of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?

• The US got land west of the Mississippi River.

• The US got independence from Great Britain.

• The British promised to close down their forts in US territory.

• The US got independence from France.

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Strengths of the British Army

,

(b) Weaknesses of the British Army

,

(c) Strengths of the Continental Army

,

(d) Weaknesses of the Continental Army

• far from home

• fighting on home territory

• fewer soldiers

• didn't use guerilla warfare

• better leader

• not as well trained

• more weapons

• more soldiers

(a)   's biggest challenge at Valley Forge was keeping his men in camp and keeping them alive as well as maintaining his soldiers' (b)   .

• Washington
• morale
• Cornwallis
• Lafayette
• training
• weapons

Mark the section of the map that was designed by the British to prevent conflicts with the Native Americans.

What was the MAIN reason the colonists didn't like all of the British taxes?

• They raised the price of all goods, making it much harder to survive.

• They were imposed without their consent and with no representation in Parliament.

• The British gave the tax money to the colonial legislatures to figure out how to spend it.

The (a)   were British laws that punished the colonists for the (b)   . These laws took away colonists' rights by closing the port at Boston, forcing colonists to let British troops quarter in their homes, and requiring that political leaders in Boston be appointed by the (c)   .

• Intolerable Acts
• Boston Tea Party
• king
• Townshend Acts
• Navigation Acts
• colonial legislatures
• Boston Massacre

Put the events in the correct order:

• Britain taxed the colonists to pay for the war debt.

• The British won the French and Indian War.

• Eventually, the colonists declared independence.

• Colonists got mad about the taxes and boycotted British goods.

• The British repealed (took away) the taxes but added more later.