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*MAP LITERACY*
*KEY TERMS*
*EARLY UNREST & PROTESTS*
*THE BEGINNING OF REVOLUTION*
*MISCELLANEOUS*
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These are THREE Native American tribes that lived in British Territory in 1775.
What are Ojibwa; Winnebago; AND Illinois (AND . . . Potawatomi; Erie; Shawnee; Chickasaw; Natchez; Choctaw; Yamasee; Timucua; Calusa; Cherokee; and Iroquois) Part I, #3
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These are members of the colonial militias, who boasted that they would be ready to fight with only a minute's notice.
What are minutemen? Part II, #4
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This is why the British government issued new taxes on the colonies after the French and Indian War.
What is to pay off the large war debt they had incurred during the French and Indian War? Part III, #2
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True OR False: The first battle of the American Revolution was a clear victory for the British army?
What is False? Part III, #13
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This is how Parliament reacted to the news of the Boston Tea Party.
What is by passing the Coercive Acts, including: shutting down Boston Harbor; suspending town meetings in Boston; AND authorizing the quartering of British soldier in colonial homes? Part III, #8
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This is a special-purpose map. What specific/special information can you derive from it?
What is information about Native American tribes and where they lived in North America in 1775; where Patriot and Loyalist support was strongest throughout North America in 1775; where major protests against British policies occurred form 1764-1774; etc. Part I, #1
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This is an American colonist who favored American independence.
What is a Patriot? Part II, #5
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This was the unplanned incident that occurred outside the customs house in which 5 colonists were killed by British sentries. It was later used by the Sons of Liberty as propaganda.
What was the Boston Massacre? Part III, #4
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These are aspects of the popular legend of Paul Revere's "midnight ride" that are NOT accurate.
What is that Paul Revere was the only midnight rider; that he reached Concord and accomplished his mission; AND that he shouted "the British are coming!" as he rode through the night. Part III, #12
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This was a Patriot organization that protested British policies and that carried out the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Sons of Liberty? Part III, #6
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According to the map, these are four cities in the southern colonies that were sites of major protests against British tax laws.
What are Williamsburg; Wilmington; Charleston; AND Savannah? Part I, #7
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This is an act of open defiance against authority.
What is rebellion? Part II, #2
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These are the events that occurred in Boston on the night of December 16th, 1773.
What is: the Son of Liberty met secretly to discuss what should be done about the merchant ships anchored in Boston harbor; the Sons of Liberty boarded the ships at midnight, dressed as Mohawk Indians; AND the Sons of Liberty dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor? Part III, #7
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This is an American colonist who remained loyal to Britian and opposed the war for independence.
What is a Loyalist? Part II, #8
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True or False: The Proclamation of 1763 helped Britain control westward expansion in North America?
What is True? Part III, #1
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This is about how far apart the city of St. Louis and the border of Virginia are.
What is approximately 500 miles? Part I, #5
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These are ideas or information intentionally spread to harm or help a cause.
What is propaganda? (Part II, #3)
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Even though the Tea Act lowered the tax on tea, this is why many colonists remained angry.
What is because a tax, even a lowered one, was still a tax AND the Tea Act ensured the British East India Company's monopoly over colonial tea sales? Part III, #5
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These are the important actions taken by the Second Continental Congress.
What is creating the Continental Army; sending the Olive Branch Petition to King George III; and choosing a committee to write a declaration of independence? Part III, #14
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True or False: Most of the delegates who were sent to the First Continental Congress supported immediate military action against the British?
What is False? Part III, #9
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These are the colonies where the movement for independence was probably the strongest.
What are the New England colonies, in general, because that is where most of the major protests occurred. Any colony that is marked as an area of "strong Patriot support" may also be included. Part I, #8
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This is a formal request, like the one that the Second Continental Congress sent to King George III, asking for an end to the war.
What is a petition? Part II, #7
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These are ways that the colonists showed their opposition to the Stamp Act.
What is by boycotting British goods; burning effigies that were made to look like unpopular tax collectors; AND having the Stamp Act Congress send a letter to the king and Parliament, declaring that only colonial assemblies could tax the colonists? Part III, #3
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This is why 700 British troops were ordered to march to Concord in April 1775.
What is to seize and destroy all the artillery and ammunition that was being kept in a "secret" arsenal there? Part III, #11
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This was the purpose of the First Continental Congress.
What was to draft a resolution to King George III, asking for a repeal of the Coercive Acts AND to agree upon a boycott of ALL British goods in ALL of the colonies? Part III, #10