American Revolution
Must-Knows
Visual Review
Clearly Great Britain (and other
countries like France and Spain)
believed in the idea of setting up
colonies to benefit economically from
them.
Question #1
What is the economic idea that the
more money a mother country has the
more power it has? 
French and Indian War Causes –
Question #2 - How are the two
pictures connected to reasons why the
colonists and French fought?
Question #3 - What should you notice?
Question #4 - What 3 steps should you
take when you see a political cartoon?
Question #5 - Write a sentence to
explain how the following words are
connected to the political cartoon.
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Unite
French and Indian War
Ben Franklin
13 colonies
Albany Plan of Union
This cartoon connects to the previous
sentence? Question #6 - What is the
significance of letters A, B, C, D?
B
A
C
D
Question #7 - What was the end result
of the French and Indian War?
Question #8 - What officially ended the
French and Indian War?
Question #9 - But even though the French were
gone who was still here and posed a threat to the
colonies?
Question #10 - After the French and
Indian War… explain the connection to
the following pics
Identify the following taxes…
Question #11 - 1st tax specifically
aimed at raising revenue ($$$$$) from
the colonies?
Question #12 Stamp Act – required colonists to
pay a tax on any ????
Parliament later repealed the Stamp
Act… Question #13 - what does this
mean?
This felt like a victory for the colonists, but
it was short lived, because Parliament
passed the Question #14 _____________,
asserting that the British government had
free and total legislative power over the
colonies
Question #15 – This act taxed the
following 5 items:
Paper
Lead
Paint
Tea
Glass
After thinking about all of these
unfair taxes…
James Otis said, “No Taxation
Without Representation!”
Question #16 - What does it
mean?
Question #17 •
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A - Group?
B - Action?
C - Liberty Tree?
D - Background Action?
E - Why Stamp Act
upside down on tree?
• F - Leader of group?
Question #18 - Created in
Massachusetts in the mid 1760’s to
help towns and colonies share info
about resisting the new British laws…
Question #19 - Who was the founder of the
Committees of Correspondence?
Question #20 - Event?
Question #21 - Boston Massacre –
Connect the following in a few
sentences.
• Paul Revere
• Crispus Attucks
• Propaganda
Question #22 –
Event?
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A - Who involved?
B - Protesting what?
C - How did the British respond to this event?
D - Your TEKS view the Boston Tea Party as civil
disobedience – how?
Question #23 - What connection can
you make between the following
actions?
• Refusing to pay taxes
• Smuggling
• Boycotting goods
Question #24 - Forms that allowed tax
collectors to search for smuggled
goods?
• Like today’s search warrant
Question #25
Taken from James Otis’ 5 hour speech about Writs of
Assistance: What’s his position on the issue? Why?
“I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and
faculties God has given me, all such instruments of
slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this
Writ of Assistance is. It appears to me the worst
instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of
English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that
ever was found in an English law-book…”
Position ?
Why?
Question #26 - Event?
AKA? Why?
Question #27 - Event? Significance?
Who is person “A”? “B”? Group “C”?
B
C
A
C
Question #28 - What are personal
liberties that the government is
designed to protect called?
Question #29 - Unalienable
Rights…What are they?
Question #30 - What Revolutionary
War Document is this? Main Author?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure
these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed, --That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the
People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem
most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Question #31 - In your own words,
what is meant by the following line:
• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”
Question # 32 - In your own words,
what is meant by the following line:
“That to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among Men, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the governed”
Question #33 - In your own words,
what is meant by the following line:
“That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the
Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and
to institute new Government”
In the Declaration of Independence
the Americans list “grievances”
• A lot of grievances start with the word “He”.
Question #34 - Who does “He” refer to?
• What idea does each grievance represent?
- A = “He kept among us in times of peace, standing
Armies.”
- B = “He imposed taxes on us without our Consent.”
- C = “For cutting off trade with all parts of the world.”
Question #35 - Event? Another word
for these men in the boats?
Battle of Saratoga
• Question # 36 - Known as the ….
• Question #37 - Why?
Question #38 - Event? Significance? Person “A”,
“B”, “C”?
A
C
B
Question #39 - What is the name of
this source???
“THESE are the times that try men's
souls. The summer soldier and the
sunshine patriot will, in this crisis,
shrink from the service of their
country; but he that stands by it now,
deserves the love and thanks of man
and woman.”
Question #40 Even though The Crisis was read to the troops
before crossing the icy Delaware River on
Christmas Eve before the Battle of Trenton, how
could the same ideas be connected to Valley
Forge?
Question #41 - Event? Who is person
“A”? “B”?
A
B
Question #42 - Event? Significance?
Who is Person A?
A
Question #43 - What connection can
you make with the following?
• Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
• Mercy Otis Warren’s play, The Blockheads
• Paul Revere’s Boston Massacre Engraving
Question #44 - What is propaganda?
Question #45 - The man that Patriots
love to hate?
Question #46 - Who said? What is the
meaning in relationship to the
Revolutionary War?
"Our brethren are already in the field! Why
stand we here idle? ... Is life so dear, or peace so
sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains
and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not
what course others may take; but as for me, give
me liberty, or give me death!"
Question #47 - Who? Role played
during the American Revolution?
Question #48 - Just like Paul Revere,
but African American who actually got
the job done!
Question #49 - Which American
patriot should you think of when you
think of…
Question #50 - He served as a spy for
the Patriots who was posing as a
runaway slave. He helped provide
information for the Battle of Yorktown.
Question #51 - Spaniard who helped
the Patriots by allowing them to use
the Spanish owned port of New
Orleans as well as the Mississippi River
Question #52 - Commander of the
Continental Army. Possessed
character traits important for a leader,
such as: honesty, courage,
inspirational, and thoughtful.
Question #53 - Who Said???
Significance?
“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they
could. If particuliar care and attention is not
paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment
(start) a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves
bound by any Laws in which we have no voice,
or Representation.”
Question #54 - Played a key role in the
Continental Congress. Besides
Jefferson and Franklin he served as 1
of 5 on the committee to write the
Declaration of Independence.
Question #55 - Frenchman who was a
close friend of Washington. He
believed strongly in what American
were fighting for so he helped the
Patriots by commanding forces in the
colonial army.
Question #56 - Leader of the
Continental Navy and said as his ship
was sinking, “I have not yet begun to
fight!”