REVOLUTION

Unit Question: What is worth fighting for?
Area of Interaction: Community and Service

The 13 Colonies:
Link #1 - Click here to get to Link #1. Answer questions 1 - 3
1. What colonies made up the New England Colonies?
2. What was the main religion in the New England Colonies?
3. What was their economy based on?

Video #1 - Click hereto watch Video #1. Answer questions 4 - 10
4. What is the difference between a Pilgrim and a Puritan?
5. Where did the Pilgrims land?
6. Where did the Puritans land?
7. How did the New England Colonies create their borders?
8. Who came up with the idea that people should be able to decide their own religion?
9. What colony did Roger Williams start?
10, What colony started religious freedom?

Link #1 again - Click hereto get to Link #1. Answer questions 11 - 15
11. What colonies made up the Middle Colonies?
12. What was the main religion in the Middle Colonies?
13. What was their economy based on?
14. What colonies made up the Southern Colonies?
15. What was the main religion in the Southern Colonies?

Link #2 - Click hereto get Link #2.Answer questions 16 - 30
16. Why was the Virginia Colony started?
17. The Virginia Colony didn't find gold, but what made the colony rich? (It was on your last test)
18. Why did the Pilgrims start the colony of Plymouth?
19. Who started the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
20.Why did they start the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
21. Who founded Rhode Island and why did he start the colony?
22. Who started the colony of Connecticut and why did he start the colony?
23. Who started the colony of New Hampshire and why did he start the colony?
24. Who started the colony of New York and why did they start the colony?
25. Why was New Jersey colonized?
26. Who started the Maryland Colony and why did he start the colony?
27. Who started the Pennsylvania Colony and why did he start the colony?
28. When was Delaware started?
29. Why were the Carolina colonies started?
30. Who started the Georgia Colony and why did he start the colony?

Video #2 - Watch the video below. Answer questions 31 - 35


31. Who came to the 13 colonies?
32. Why did these people risk everything to go to the colonies?
33. How much taller were the colonists than people in Europe?
34. Were Europeans or Colonists more healthy?
35. How much richer were the Colonists than people that lived in England?

Link #3 - Click here to get Link #3. Answer question 36.
36. Label the following colonies on the map. When we are in the classroom, color code the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies:
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Virgina
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia

The French and Indian War or Seven Years War
Link #4 - Click here to get to Link #4. Answer questions 37 - 42.
37. What is another name for the French and Indian War?
38. What area of land were the French trying to take?
39. What year did the British formally declare war on the French?
40. Who became the British General in 1757?
41. What European country joined France in the war?
42. What two areas of land did Britain receive from the peace treaty in 1763?

Link #5 - Click here to get to Link #5. Answer question 43.
43. Look on the chart near the bottom of the page, and find the French and Indian War. Write down the "victor" and the "opposing" side:

Video #3 - Watch as a class, so Bradfield can explain it to you! Bradfield will help you answer 44 - 50.

44. What did George Washington learn from this defeat?

The Causes of the American Revolution
Get the following information from Bradfield:
45. After the French and Indian War, what did the colonies want Britain to do?
46. What did the British want the colonies to do?
47. What was the Proclamation of 1763?
48. Why did Great Britain want this Proclamation?
49. Why did the colonists not like it?
50. What did the colonists do about it?

Link #6 - Click here to get to Link #6. Answer questions 51 - 54.
51. What was the Writ of Assistance?
52. What were the Intolerable Acts?
53. Why were the Intolerable Acts passed by Britain?
54. What was the Quebec Act?

Link #7 - Click here to get to Link #7. Answer questions 55 - 62.
55. What was the Sugar Act?
56. What was the Stamp Act?
57. What was the Townshend Acts?
58. What was the Quartering Act?
59. What was the Tea Act?
60. What was the Committee of Correspondence?
61. Who were the Sons and Daughters of Liberty?
62. What was the Boston Tea Party?

Link #8 - Click here - Scroll down to the third paragraph and answer #63.
63. What was the Declaratory Act?