Name ___________________
Modern World History
Mr. Kraft
American Revolution
Study Guide
English Leadership:
1.
What monarchy (ruling family) was in power of England during the American Revolution? ________________
2.
What monarch (king or queen) was in power during the American Revolution? ___________________
English Laws and Taxes:
1. What is the name for a tax on an imported good? __________________
2. What agency or group is responsible for stopping smuggling? ___________________
3. What is the title of the person who oversees the American colonial economy? ________________
4. What is the name of the English courts in the American colonies that consisted of an English judge and no jury?
________________________
5. What is the law that outlawed colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains? ____________________
6. Short Answer: Explain how the Sugar Act tried to make English molasses, used to make rum, cheaper in the
American colonies.
7. Short Answer: Explain how the English tried to save money by passing the Quartering Act.
8. What law made it so that American colonials had to purchase English stamps from English stamp collectors to
be placed on all purchased paper products? _____________________
9. What law created the Board of Customs Commissions? __________ _______________________
10. What is the name of the colonial activist group who had the goal of driving the English out of the American
colonies? ___________________
11. Short Answer: What is meant by the saying “no taxation without representation” used by the American colonial
revolutionaries?
12. Where did the American colonial revolutionaries want to be represented at? ________________________
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Boston Tension: Phase # 1 (1770 – 1776)
1.
Where was the first phase of the American Revolutionary war fought? _________________
2.
His murder happened before the Boston Massacre and was the reason for the heightened tension between
the American colonials and English throughout Boston. _____________________
3.
How many American colonials were killed during the Boston Massacre? ______
4.
Who defended the English soldiers on trial for the Boston Massacre? _______________________
5.
Short Answer: Explain what propaganda is.
6.
Short Answer: Explain how Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre was used as propaganda.
7.
Short Answer: Explain why the Tea Act angered the American colonials.
8.
What group is responsible for the Boston Tea Party? _______________________________
9.
What company’s tea was dumped into the Boston Harbor? _________________________________________
10. What law came in response to the Boston Tea Party? _____________________________________
The Continental Congress: Phase # 1(1770 – 1776)
1. Which colony sent no delegates to the 1st and 2nd Continental Congress? ________
2. In what city did the 1st and 2nd Continental Congress meet? ___________________________
The Armies: Phase # 1 (1770 – 1776)
1.
What is the name of the American colonial army? ____________________________
2.
Who was the commander of the American colonial army? _____________________
3.
Who was placed in charge of the American colonial army’s artillery (cannons) division? __________________
4.
What is the name of small volunteer armies that each colony had? _____________
5.
Who was the original commander of the British army? __________________________
6.
What is the name of the paid professional soldiers from other countries who fought for England? ___________
7.
What is the name for the German mercenaries who fought for England? ____________
8.
What is the name of fighting tactic / style used by the American colonial army and the English army?
_______________________
9.
What is the name of fighting tactic / style used by the American colonial militias? _______________________
10. Short Answer: Explain the advantage of the American colonial militia’s fighting style.
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11. Where did the American colonial militias learn their fighting style? _______________________________
12. Short Answer: How did the American colonial militias and army learn the weaknesses of English Army?
Boston Conflicts: Phase # 1(1770 – 1776)
1.
Who helped Paul Revere warn the area around Boston that “the British are coming” to Concord?
_______________________ & ________________________
2.
Short Answer: Why was the English army going to Concord?
3.
What battle is known as the first battle of the American Revolutionary War (two battles)?
__________________________________________
4.
Short Answer: Explain why the American colonials were considered the winners of the first battle.
5.
Short Answer: Why did the Continentals retreat at the Battle of Bunker Hill if they were winning the battle?
6.
What “miracle” caused the English to evacuate Boston? ____________________________
7.
Short Answer: Why were both Bunker Hill and Dorchester Heights strategic positions?
Declaring Independence: Phase # 1 (1770 – 1776)
1.
What is the name of the proposed peace (truce) document sent by the 2nd Continental Congress to King
George III? ___________________________
2.
Who is the author of Common Sense? _________________________
3.
Short Answer: What is the main message that the author of Common Sense was trying to convey to the
readers?
4.
This was a list of grievances (complaints) about King George III. ___________________________________
5.
Who is the main author of the Declaration of Independence? ______________________________________
6.
What movement’s ideas are found throughout the Declaration of Independence? ______________________
7.
What is the name of the American colonials who opposed American colonial independence and remained
“loyal” to King George III? ____________________
8.
What is the name of the American colonials who supported American colonial independence?
________________________
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Northern Battles: Phase # 2 (1776 – 1778)
1. Where was the second phase of the American Revolutionary war fought? ___________________
2. Who won the Battle for New York? __________________________
3. What two battles in New Jersey raised the morale of the Continental Army? ________________________ &
____________________
4. What battle is known as the “turning point” of the American Revolutionary War? _________________________
5. Short Answer: Why is the Battle of Saratoga known as the “turning point” of the war?
6. What treaty established commerce (trade) between France and the American colonials? __________________
7. What treaty established a military alliance between France and the American colonials? __________________
8. Short Answer: Explain what Valley Forge was to the Continental army?
9. What is the name of the Prussian general who helped train the Continental army while at Valley Forge?
____________________
10. What American colonial convinced the Prussian general to come help the Continental Army? ______________
11. What is the first battle fought by the Continental army after leaving Valley Forge? ________________________
12. Short Answer: Explain the result and importance of the battle of Monmouth.
Southern Battles: Phase # 3 (1779 – 1781)
1.
Where was the third phase of the American Revolutionary war fought? ___________________
2.
In what colony did Francis Marion make his home? _____________________
3.
What was Francis Marion’s nickname? _________________________
4.
Who is responsible for giving Francis Marion his nickname? _________________________________
5.
Short Answer: What is the reasoning behind Francis Marion’s nickname?
6.
Was Francis Marion part of a militia or part of the Continental army? __________________
7.
Short Answer: Where did Cornwallis choose to “entrench” himself towards the end of the war, and why did he
choose this place?
8.
What is the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War? ______________________
9.
Short Answer: Why could the English not escape during the final battle of the American Revolutionary War?
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10. List the two terms of the Treaty of Paris 1783.
1.
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11. Short Answer: Why do historians call the American Revolution a “bad example for others to follow”?
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