• Do Now- Name three important people involved with the American Revolution and what were there actions • Goal- Demonstrate knowledge of the American Revolution
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• Do Now-
Name three important people involved with the American Revolution and what were there actions
• Goal- Demonstrate knowledge of the American Revolution
The first African
American to die in America’s
fight for independence
Who is Crispus Attucks?
Wrote the pamphlet Common
Sense
Who is Thomas Paine?
Opposed the War and wanted to remain
under British control
loyalists
This group was a secret organization that protested the
Tea Act by dressing as Mohawk Indians and dumping tea into the Boston
Harbor
Who are the Son’s of Liberty?
Writer of the Declaration
of Independenc
e
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Law requiring colonists to
provide food, Clothing, and
shelter to British Soldiers
What is the
Quartering Act?
Placed a fee on sugar and
molassas
Sugar Act
Stated that English settlers could not settle
west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
At this event in May of 1775, men gathered in
Philadelphia. Among their actions was a petition
proclaiming the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.
What is the second
Continental Congress?
This act stated that colonists were unable to
hold public meetings, had to close the Boston
Harbor, must quarter soldiers and no self governance of the
colonies.
What were the Intolerable
Acts?
City of the first bloodshed in the American
Revolution
Where is Boston?
Location of first battle in
the War
Where is Lexington?
French and Indian War was fought
at this location
Where is the Ohio River
Valley?
This was closed as a result of the Intolerable Acts
What is the Boston Harbor?
Name of the colony where the Boston Tea Party
occurred
Where is Massachusetts?
This is a colonial solider that had to be
ready at a minute’s
notice
What is a minuteman?
Another word for freedom
What is liberty?
Means rights one is born
with
What is inalienable
rights?
A person who supported the
American cause for independence
from England
What is a patriot?
The killing of a group of people who are unable
to defend themselves. The British
were accused of this
What is a massacre?
This event caused many of the taxes the King imposed on the colonists