Taxes and Protests
This attempt to lower taxes on British tea backfired heavily in an event known as _________________.
The Boston Tea Party
BONUS (+500): Explain why Americans were upset about lower taxes on tea!
Where is Lexington?
Who is Tom Sawyer?
What justifies a rebellion according to Thomas Jefferson?
(Mr. King--you should list these on the whiteboard and make students write them down!)
A bus arrives to campus looking for the "Tempe Prep gym" and asks you for directions. Provide accurate instructions for how to direct the bus driver. Use cardinal directions and street names.
Answers may vary.
What was the goal of the Olive Branch Petition?
The turning point of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
BONUS (+200): Why is it the turning point?
A tolerable slim old maid
Who is Miss Watson?
Who said "Give me liberty or give me death?"
Who is Patrick Henry?
Bonus (+100): Who did he say it to?
Who was the lawyer who defended the British soldiers in the trial after the Boston Massacre?
Who is John Adams?
(Bonus +200): Which president did he go on to become?
Put these events in chronological order: Declaratory Act, Boston Tea Party, Stamp Act, Boston Massacre, Proclamation of 1763, and Coercive Acts.
1. Proclamation of 1763
2. Stamp Act3. Declaratory Act
4. Boston Massacre
5. Boston Tea Party
6. Coercive Acts
Name one American general and one British general in the Revolutionary War.
Answers may vary.
The now fatherless family that the King and the Duke are trying to con and defraud.
Who is the Wilkes family?
Prove that you know what is in Thomas Paine's famous text Common Sense.
Answers may vary.
The average class size advertised by Tempe Prep's website.
BONUS (+300): The advertised student-to-teacher ratio at Tempe Prep is 13:1. What do you think Tempe High's ratio is? McClintock's?
This man put heavy taxes on glass, lead, paper, paints, and other products in 1767.
Who is Charles Townshend?
The final battle of the American Revolution was ________________.
Where was the Battle of Yorktown?
A sign "dat you's agwyne to be rich," according to Jim.
What can be found in the text we read by Charles Inglis?
What is a defense of loyalism?
(Bonus +200): How does Inglis defend the cause of loyalism in this text?
"to educate students for the lifelong pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty."
The first tax on Americans that was not about maintenance of trade but rather about raising revenue.
What is the Sugar Act (Molasses Act)?
Why didn't the Americans succeed in their invasion of Quebec (Canada) in 1775?
-British were well-defended and winter was setting in after a long march through Maine for Benedict Arnold's men
-High rate of smallpox among American troops (possibly spread through prostitutes sent by the British governor!)
-Americans were disorganized and unprepared
-Fewer French Canadians joined Americans than expected (especially when Americans stopped the French Catholics from taking mass on Christmas Eve and started taking supplies from them at bayonet point!)
He is amused by the idea of you lynching anybody.
Who is Colonel Sherburn?
Starting with "We hold these truths to be self-evident...," recite the Declaration of Independence until I say to stop.
Answers shouldn't vary.
This man helped plunge Great Britain into debt in order to win the French and Indian War. Later he supported the Americans in their call for no taxation without representation.
Who is William Pitt?