Excerpt from The American Revolution
by Jake Henderson & Robert Marshall
©2015
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Proclamation of 1763:
Guided Viewing: Fill in the blanks below to create complete sentences.
1. Lands west of the Appalachian Mountains would remain
______________________________ for the time being.
2. Clashes between colonists and Native Americans were becoming both
________________ and alarming.
3. Over a span of ___________________________, Native American
attacks on the frontier were violent and furious.
4. British general _________________________ and soldiers were sent
to meet the threat of Pontiac’s Rebellion.
5. Great Britain also sent more troops to North America and began
____________________ additional forts.
6. Great Britain’s defense of the North American colonies cost
___________________________ a year.
7. The British Parliament felt that ____________________________
should pay for the defense of the North American colonies.
8. Colonists outnumbered the ____________________ living on the
frontier 20 to 1.
9. Prior to the French and Indian War, Britain had kept no
__________________________ in the American colonies.
10. The Quartering Act of 1765 stated that colonists had to provide
______________________, food, and supplies for the British troops.
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The Albany Plan of Union and Committees of Correspondence:
Guided Viewing: Fill in the blanks below to create complete sentences.
1. One important element that led to the War for Independence was a growing
sense of _________________ among the thirteen colonies.
2. The Albany Plan of Union was a 1754 proposal aimed at building a union of the
colonies under a single _________________________.
3. The _________________________________ had just begun, and many
argued that the Albany Union was justified to coordinate an alliance of the
American colonies.
4. The meeting in Albany marked the first time in the 1700s that colonial
representatives met to discuss a plan for creating a ________________.
5. Copies of the Albany Plan were sent to colonial assemblies and the
______________________ in London.
6. The British Government was weary of their colonies’ growing
_________________________.
7. Following the French and Indian War, the relationship between Britain and its
colonies quickly _________________________.
8. The British intended to raise funds from the colonies through a new series of
_______________________________.
9. ___________________________________ were organized by colonial
leaders, and they coordinated resistance to British policies.
10. Committees of Correspondence enforced colonial _______________
against British goods and informed one another of British abuses of power.
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The Stamp Act:
Guided Viewing: Fill in the blanks below to create complete sentences.
1. The years following the conclusion of the French and Indian War were vital in
creating an ____________________ in the American colonies.
2. In 1764, Parliament passed the Sugar Act in an attempt to curb
___________________.
3. The implementation of the _______________________ marked the first
time colonists’ taxes were sent directly to the British Treasury.
4. Under the Sugar Act, judges appointed by the __________________ would
determine a person’s guilt or innocence in cases involving smuggling.
5. Under the Stamp Act, paper materials had to be produced on
_______________________ paper from Britain.
6. Most colonists opposed the Stamp Act because they sent no representatives of
their own to ______________________.
7. In _____________________, the governor became so frightened that he
turned all of the stamps over to an angry mob who burned them.
8. Life-size dummies of stamp distributors and British leaders were hung in
_____________________.
9. Lt. Governor Thomas Hutchinson, a ________________________, and
his family were evicted from their home, and most of their property was
destroyed.
10. While many colonists used violent means to protest the Stamp Act, colonial
leaders were seeking a more organized and_______________ approach.
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The Stamp Act Repealed:
Guided Viewing: Fill in the blanks below to create complete sentences.
1. The ______________________ was a tax on legal documents, magazines,
newspapers, and many other types of paper.
2. Colonial leaders took a more _________________________ approach to
protesting the Stamp Act.
3. ___________________________ openly encouraged businesses not to
buy the stamps and even resorted to intimidation to frighten tax collectors.
4. Samuel Adams and _________________________ championed the
slogan, “No taxation without representation.”
5. Colonial leaders hoped that boycotts would hurt the ________________
enough that Parliament would repeal the new taxes.
6. The Stamp Act Congress issued the _________________________,
stating that the Stamp Act violated colonists’ rights as English citizens.
7. Patrick Henry insisted that Britain’s actions with the Stamp Act were a threat
to American and British ___________________.
8. Not a single __________________________ was in business on the day
the Stamp Act was to take effect.
9. The Stamp Act was repealed in ___________________.
10. King George III and Parliament objected to acts of American
______________________.
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The Townshend Acts:
Guided Viewing: Fill in the blanks below to create complete sentences.
1. The Stamp Act was repealed due to stiff colonial resistance and the pressures of
organized ____________________________.
2. King ____________________ wanted the colonists to pay for damages
caused by rioting and the price of printing millions of now worthless stamps.
3. In 1767, Parliament passed an ambitious series of laws that became known as
the _______________________________.
4. The revenue from the Townshend Acts would go to pay the salaries of
_______________________ that the colonists were already providing
housing and supplies for.
5. __________________________________ gave British authorities the
right to search any building or vessel for any reason.
6. _________________________________ organized protests, secret
societies, and Committees of Correspondence.
7. _____________________________ held spinning bees to create
American-made clothes.
8. In response to the Liberty incident, the governor broke up the
______________________ legislature and requested troops to restore order.
9. Due to colonial resistance, most of the __________________________
were repealed.
10. The first ____________________________ arrived in Boston in
October 1768.
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The Boston Massacre:
Guided Viewing: Fill in the blanks below to create complete sentences.
1. On the same day that Parliament repealed most of the
____________________________, a bloody riot exploded in Boston.
2. Clashes between Bostonians and British soldiers were both consistent
and _________________________.
3. British soldiers began viewing Bostonians as even more rebellious than
the __________________________.
4. Many British soldiers sought to take on a _____________________.
5. A British officer ordered the town magistrate to read the
__________________________, but he refused out of fear for his life.
6. Following the massacre, the city tinkered on the brink of a
__________________________.
7. Boston’s _________________________ outnumbered the British
soldiers 5 to 1.
8. British troops were _________________________ from Boston,
and those involved were put on trial for murder.
9. ______________________ defended the seven British soldiers
during the trial.
10. Two British soldiers had their __________________________
branded for killing people in the crowd “by accident”.
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The Boston Tea Party:
Guided Viewing: Fill in the blanks below to create complete sentences.
1. Prior to the Boston Tea Party, Parliament repealed most of the
_____________________________.
2. American merchants were ______________________ in most of the
tea in order to avoid paying customs duties.
3. Supporters of the Tea Act argued that less smuggling in the American
colonies would result in more ____________________ for the empire.
4. Colonists still saw the Tea Act as a direct and ________________ tax.
5. _________________________ saw the Tea Act as an opportunity to
bring English tea back into the colonies.
6. The Townshend boycotts had _________________________ the
British economy.
7. Smuggling had caused so much damage that the East India Tea Company
was in danger of ______________________________.
8. Hundreds of Bostonians gathered inside the ___________________ to
discuss what to do about the tea in Boston Harbor.
9. The Sons of Liberty seized _______________________________,
split them open, and tossed them into the harbor.
10. John Adams wrote, “The destruction of the tea is so bold, so daring, so
firm, so intrepid and inflexible, it must have important
_______________________________.”
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The Intolerable Acts:
Guided Viewing: Fill in the blanks below to create complete sentences.
1. In the spring of 1774, Parliament passed four harsh laws that colonists called
the ___________________________.
2. Massachusetts’s charter was drastically ______________________.
3. All ______________________________________ in
Massachusetts were to be disbanded.
4. The Coercive Acts dispatched four regiments of British soldiers to Boston
and authorized army officers to ______________________ the troops in
the homes of private citizens.
5. The Quebec Act shifted the western boundary of the territory to the
__________________________ River.
6. Several members of Parliament warned that the Coercive Acts would lead to
massive _____________________ throughout the colonies.
7. ______________________________ spoke out against the Coercive
Acts in the House of Lords for punishing the innocent.
8. _____________________ dismissed the arguments against the
Coercive Acts, assuring Parliament that they had nothing to worry about.
9. King George III informed Prime Minister North that the colonies would
soon _____________________ to their rule.
10. Colonial leaders had convened something called the Continental Congress
to meet in ________________________ in the fall.
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First Continental Congress:
Guided Viewing: Fill in the blanks below to create complete sentences.
1. For many colonists, the harsh reaction of Parliament to the
__________________was the final straw in a long list of abuses.
2. Patrick Henry believed that __________________ was unavoidable.
3. Many delegates from the _____________________ colonies argued that
peace with Britain should be kept at all costs.
4. The First Continental Congress agreed to continue _________________
trade with Britain until the Intolerable (Coercive Acts) were lifted.
5. Continental Congress insisted that the original settlers of the American
colonies had not _____________________________________ any of
their “rights, liberties, and immunities.”
6. The First Continental Congress did not seek ___________________ from
Great Britain.
7. Patrick Henry encouraged his fellow ______________________ to
support the Patriot cause.
8. The request to lift the ___________________ was met with more rules
and British troops being sent to the colonies.
9. As 1775 approached, many colonists were preparing for a
______________________.
10. The more radical offshoots of the colonial militia vowed to be ready to fight at
a _____________________ notice.
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Lexington & Concord:
Guided Viewing: Fill in the blanks below to create complete sentences.
1. British forces in Boston learned of a stash of weapons and ammunition
stored 18 miles away in the village of ____________________.
2. Thomas Gage issued orders to seize the __________________ and
destroy them.
3. Paul Revere supervised a network of ______________ around Boston.
4. If the British left Boston by boat, _____________________ were to
be placed in the window of the Old North Church.
5. ________________________ set out on a nighttime ride, alarming
fellow colonists that, “The Regulars are out! The Regulars are out!”
6. Colonial militia began gathering on the _______________________
near Lexington, intending to block the road to Concord.
7. The first shot fired at _____________________ became known as
the “Shot Heard Round the World.”
8. Near Concord, American forces once again battled the British on the
____________________ Bridge.
9. The British faced a _________________ retreat from Concord back
to Boston.
10. The Battle of Concord resulted in ______________ British soldiers
being killed and 174 wounded.
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