Name: _________________________________ Test on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2016
Revolutionary War Test
Check List
Be able to explain the following causes of the
Revolutionary War:
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Stamp Act
Townshend Act
Quartering Act
Intolerable Acts
Tea Act
Reasons for British Acts
Sons of Liberty
Boston Tea Party
Militia
Minutemen
Green Mountain Boys (Ethan Allen)
Understand the following primary sources:
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Benjamin Franklin’s Join, or Die – meaning
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense-purpose
Declaration of Independence- 4 parts, Jefferson,
rights, where does government derive its power?
Thomas Paine’s The Crisis-outcome
Picture of Washington Crossing the Delaware
explain: who, what , when (season & time of day),
where, why…
Patrick Henry’s speech to the Virginia House of
Burgesses
Know the following about the War:
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American Strengths
British Strengths
Lexington and Concord
Breed’s (Bunker) Hill – explain event
Ft. Ticonderoga
Long Island
Trenton and Princeton
Saratoga – outcome for colonies
Valley Forge
Yorktown & the Surrender
Battles Map – Be able to label battle locations
Know the following people:
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Continental Army
Hessians - Mercenaries
Von Steuben- Valley Forge
Continental Congress-1st & 2nd
George Washington
Lord Cornwallis
Lord Howe
Nathan Hale
Burgoyne & Gates