Road to War

Use a cause and effect graphic organizer.

Person 1
1. What are taxes?
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2. Why did British leaders decide to tax the colonists?________________________
3. What argument did the colonists use as a basis to protest the Stamp Act?
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4. What was repealed in 1766? __________________________________________
5. What did the repeal mean? __________________________________________
6. What law was passed in 1767? What did the act say?
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Person 2
7. What does boycott mean?____________________________________________
8. Who are the Sons of Liberty? __________________________________________
9. What caused the British to send warships to Boston?
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10. What happened in 1770 with the Boston Massacre?
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11. What caused British soldiers to fire at the colonists?
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Person 3
12. What is the Committee of Correspondence and who formed the Committee?
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13. What is the purpose of the Committee of Correspondence?
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14. Who were the leaders of the Boston Tea Party?
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15. What were the causes and effects of the Boston Tea Party?
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Person 4
16. What are the main actions of the Intolerable Acts? ________________________
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17. How did the Intolerable Acts affect the colonists?
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18. What is the Continental Congress? _____________________________________
19. What decisions did Patriot leaders make at the First Continental Congress?
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20. Why did Patrick Henry believe Virginias militias should be prepared?
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Perspectives of the American Revolution

Use a Venn diagram as your graphic organizer.
Person 1
1. Who are the Patriots? _________________________________________
2. What did they believe in?______________________________________
3. Who are Loyalists? ____________________________________________
4. What do they believe in? _______________________________________
Person 2
5. Who are the British? __________________________________________
6. What is their roll in the war? ____________________________________
7. Who are the minutemen? ______________________________________
8. What is their role in the war? ___________________________________
Person 3
9. Who are the Redcoats? ________________________________________
10. What is their role in the war? ___________________________________
11. Who are considered traitors? ___________________________________
12. Who is a famous American traitor and what did that person do?
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Heroes the American Revolution

Use a character analysis graphic organizer.
Directions: Each group member will pick one hero from the list and answer the
following questions.
Samuels Adams
Nathaniel Greene
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
Marquis de Lafayette
Patrick Henry
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4.
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Which side of the war was this person on? _______________________________

Describe the hero. __________________________________________________
Why do we consider this person a hero? _________________________________
What event were they involved in? ____________________________________
How did they contribute to the war? ___________________________________
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6. List 3 character traits and provide proof for each.
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Women of the American Revolution

Use a character analysis graphic organizer.
Directions: Choose from the list of women to research.
Deborah Sampson
Molly Pitcher
Abigail Adams
Martha Ball Washington
Margaret Cochran Corbin
Elizabeth Griscom
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2.
3.
4.
5.

Which side of the war was this person on? _______________________________

Describe the hero. __________________________________________________
What made them a hero? ____________________________________________
What event were they involved in? ____________________________________
How did they contribute to the war? ___________________________________
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6. List 3 character traits and provide proof for each.
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Lifestyle and Culture

Directions: Each group member will select a category to research.
1. Music:
A. Listen to 3 songs, list the songs, and who they were by.
1) ____________________________________________________________
2) ____________________________________________________________
3) ____________________________________________________________
B. Think of a popular American Tune (For example, Yankee Doodle) and write new
lyrics to song.
C. Use a description wheel as your graphic organizer
2. Recreation
A. List 3 things that people did for recreation. Find proof of your discovery.
1) _______________________________________________________________
2) _______________________________________________________________
3) _______________________________________________________________
B. Come up with your own games 2 children your age might have played. Write the
directions and act it out.
C. Use a description wheel as your graphic organizer.
3. Religion
1) Who performed all of the public services at the church?
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2) Who performs all of those services now? __________________________
3) What other uses did the church have?
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4) Use a compare and contrast graphic organizer to examine similarities and
differences of a colonial church and a modern church.
4. Professions
A. List 5 jobs and the duties of each job.
1) ____________________________________________________________
2) ____________________________________________________________
3) ____________________________________________________________
B. Use a compare and contrast graphic organizer to examine similarities and
differences of 2 of the jobs you researched.

Major American Revolution Battles

Use a sequencing graphic organizer and a map to when and where the battles occurred.
Directions: For each battle below answer the following questions.
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle of Trenton
Battle of Cowpens
Battle of Yorktown
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2.
3.
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Where and when did the battle occur? __________________________________

Who were the American heroes of the battle? ____________________________
Who won the battle? ________________________________________________
What are 3 facts about this battle?
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5. Use a cause and effects of the battle.

Declaration of Independence
Use Cornell notes to list important ideas then summarize the Declaration of
Independence.
Answer the questions below.
Person 1
1. What is the purpose of the Second Continental Congress?
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2. What was one of the first things the Second Continental Congress decided to do?
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3. Who wrote Common Sense and what is it about?
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4. Why do you think Congress wanted to ensure that every colony supported the
break with Great Britain? _____________________________________________
Person 2
5. Who was chosen to write the Declaration of Independence and why?
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6. What is the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
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7. What is the importance of the Declaration of Independence?
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Person 3
8. There are 3 quotes on page 299 of your text book, read each quote and write
what it means in your own words.
Person 4
9. What are unalienable rights? ________________________________________
10. Who are they talking about when they say, all men are created equal?
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11. Why was signing the Declaration of Independence a dangerous act?
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