Potential Extended Response Questions for the American Revolution Test
You will have one of the following extended response questions on your test. You are responsible
for being prepared for each. You will not know which one you will get until the day of the test.
1. The American Colonists and Great Britain had many areas of conflict prior to the Revolutionary War.
Choose 4 points of conflict from the list below and describe in detail what the conflict was and how the
event helped lead to the American Revolutionary War.
Salutary Neglect
Proclamation of 1763
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Townshend Acts
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Coercive Acts/Intolerable Acts
“Common Sense”
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2. The American Colonists often used the phrase “no taxation without representation” to express their
criticism of how the British governed the American Colonists.
A. Explain what the American colonists meant by “no taxation without representation.”
B. Using specific examples, explain the conflicts between the American Colonists and the British
government on this issue.
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There were many conflicts that were the causes of the American Revolution. One way that artists often voice
their feelings about a subject is to use political cartoons.
A. Analyze the cartoon above and chose four (4) symbols that the artist has used to describe events about the
American Revolution.
B. Describe using historical detail what these symbols (that you chose in part A) are representing and what part
this played in the American Revolution.