STUDY GUIDE FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA TEST
Possible resources: your notebook, your textbook.
Helpful Hint: Print out this study guide and write the “answers” next to the words
below. And, no, you can’t bring in this study guide into the test. Sorry.
EVENTS
TERMS
French and Indian War (causes and
outcomes)
Boston Tea Party
Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)
Stamp Act
Declaration of Independence (what,
where, when, why, by whom)
Olive Branch Petition
Propaganda
Loyalist
Tory
Whig
Patriot
Redcoat
Minuteman
Parliament
Democracy
Monarchy
Continental Congress
Sons of Liberty
Proclamation of 1763
THE WAR
Would you know how to answer the
following questions?
HISTORICAL FIGURES
(Would you be able to say
something about them?)
• What caused the war?
George Washington
• Why did the Americans win?
Patrick Henry-quote
• Which battle was considered the
turning point in the war?
Thomas Paine-writings
• Terms of the Peace Treaty
• How did the French help the
Americans at the Battle of
Yorktown?
King George III
Samuel Adams
General Cornwallis (where?)
General Howe (where?)
• Who won the battles around New
York City?
DATES
French and Indian War
Revolutionary War
Treaty that ended the War
Declaration of Independence