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Directions use ANYTHING in your folder to help you answer the following questions. I wrote in italics where the question was pulled from.
Columbus to the Colonies I-Civics reading and worksheets 1. What are the three reasons people colonized North America?
Colonial Influences I-Civics reading and foldable 2. Explain the Magna Carta.
3. Which document created a government that would provide order and protect the colonists who settled Massachusetts?
Brainpop: Causes of the American Revolution, Notes or definition sheet. As well as the foldable we created 4. What does it mean when you refuse to buy something?
Brainpop: Causes of the American Revolution, Notes or definition sheet 5. What act taxed sugar, molasses and other imports?
6. What act taxed almost all printed material in the colonies?
7. Explain “No taxation without representation”
8. What was the Boston Tea Party?
9. What was the Quartering Act?
1 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE Declaration of Independence foldable, Brian pop and worksheets 10. The United States declared its independence from England in what year?
11. The man who wrote the Declaration of Independence was?
12. The introduction to the Declaration of Independence is sometimes called?
13. The phrase “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,’ as found in the declaration of Independence, refers to?
14. In the American Revolution, George Washington led which army?
15. The American Revolution was a war between?
Readworks- Intro. To the Revolutionary Way 16. During which event did the first fighting between redcoats and minutemen occur?
17. The shot heard “round the world” refers to the actions of the minutemen at?
Short Constructed Response Question. Read over the following text. Underline or highlight TWO reasons the colonists wanted to be independent from England. After you underlined the reasons on the lines under the text explain the reasons. Use details from the text in your answer.
Causes of the American Revolution
Nobody Likes Taxes
Great Britain needed money. It passed the Stamp Act. This meant that any paper with writing on it must have a stamp. Each stamp cost a few cents. A stamp was needed on
2 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE each newspaper. Even playing cards had to have a stamp. This made the colonists mad. They would not pay. Mobs yelled at the men who came to sell the stamps.
The British were shocked. They saw that the tax would not work. So it was repealed. Repealed means it was stopped. Yet, Great Britain still needed money. So, it passed the Townshend (TOWNS-end) Acts. These acts taxed glass, paint, paper, lead, and tea. No one in Great Britain had to pay these taxes. The colonists did not want to pay. People gave speeches to protest. People in the colonies stopped buying British goods.
Things Go Too Far
Then, Great Britain sent 4,000 troops to Boston. On March 5, 1770, a colonist got into a fight with a British soldier. More people came. The colonists threw rocks and ice. Soon, eight more soldiers came. Someone yelled, “Fire!” The troops shot into the crowd. Five people died. The people called this the Boston Massacre. A massacre is when many people die.
Next came the Tea Act. Great Britain let just a few shops in the colonies sell tea. Samuel Adams gave a speech. He told people to fight back. In December 1773, some men dressed like Indians. These men went onto British ships at night. They opened 342 boxes of tea. They threw the tea into the water. The people called this the “Boston Tea Party.”
The Boston Tea Party made King George III mad. He made strong new laws. The people called them the Intolerable (in-TOL-uhr-uh-buhl) Acts. The word intolerable means too hard to live with. One of these acts shut down Boston Harbor. No one could fish. This put half of the men in that town out of work. Another law let British troops live in people’s homes!
Most colonists did not want to fight. But, the king had made a mistake. These laws made the colonists really dislike the king. They wanted to be free.
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