Everyday Life
Music, dances, and traditional games such as stick and hoop.
What is entertainment during the revolution?
One of the most patriotic songs of this period, which the Americans forced the British prisoners to dance to at the end of the war.
What is Yankee Doodle?
The main focus of art in this time period.
What is capturing historical figures and events?
The author of Poor Richard’s Almanac, published in 1732
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Means “apartness," was present in South Africa
What is apartheid?
Surviving on low supply of food and materials.
What is the focus of most Americans?
A derogatory term attached to New Englanders
What is Yankee?
The way artists rose to fame
What is painting portraits of leaders such as George Washington?
The main topics of American Colonial writing.
Science, nature, innovation, and freedom
What are science, nature, innovation, and freedom?
Russians who supported Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
What is the Red Army?
The punishment for anyone colluding with the other military.
What is burning one’s house down?
A foppish or effeminate hairstyle of this time period (not the noodle).
What is macaroni?
The reason some artists came to America during the revolution.
What is to depict the war?
A forceful political publication from the 1760s by James Otis
What is the Rights of English Colonies Asserted and Proved
The idea of a government by the people
What is republicanism?