History Warm-Ups Week # 8Dates : Oct. 14-18Monday:1.2. (Count down 5 lines and draw a line)_______________________________________________________________________________Tuesday:

3.4. (Count down 5 lines and draw a line)_______________________________________________________________________________Wednesday:

5.6. (Count down 5 lines and draw a line)_______________________________________________________________________________Thursday:

7.8. (Count down 5 lines and draw a line)_______________________________________________________________________________Friday:

9.10. (Count down 5 lines and draw a line)

Warm-Ups # 8

Monday: HOLIDAY

Tuesday:

1. Paul Revere is to drawing the Boston Massacre sketch as Thomas Paine is to _______________?

A. Writing the Olive Branch PetitionB. Writing ‘Common Sense’C. Drawing the ‘Join or Die’ pictureD. Drafting the Declaration of Independence

 2. At the Second Continental Congress, George Washington was asked to –

A. Run the new postal systemB. Write the Declaration of IndependenceC. Command the Continental ArmyD. Be the King of the United States

Wednesday:

3. The Declaration of Independence states that all people have rights that cannot be taken away, what are these rights called?

A. intolerableB. undeniableC. unalienableD. unpredictable

4. An important effect of Common Sense was that it persuaded many –A. ordinary people to support independence from Great BritainB. rich merchants to leave the coloniesC. loyalists to support the kingD. loyalists and patriots to unite against Great Britain

My motive and object in all my political works, beginning with Common Sense, the first work I ever published, have been to rescue man from tyranny and false systems… of government, and enable him to be free… -- Thomas Paine, 1806

Thursday:

5. The “shot heard ‘round the world” at Lexington and Concord may have started the American Revolution, but what was the first true battle?

A. YorktownB. SaratogaC. Bunker HillD. Philadelphia

6.“No taxation without representation” was the response of many colonists to the –

A. Sharing of tax revenues with Native AmericansB. Provision of the Treaty of Paris of 1783C. Calling of the First Continental CongressD. British policies in the colonies after 1763

Friday:

7.Based on this excerpt, a reader can conclude that Patrick Henry believed –

A. the colonists would be labeled traitorsB. negotiating with Great Britain was necessaryC. freedom was worth dying forD. loyalists would join the patriot cause

8. Which item would best complete the list?A. Fighting on home groundB. Relied on mercenariesC. Greater PopulationD. Fighting for a cause

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? . . . I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! — Patrick Henry, 1775

Advantages of the British During the America Revolution

*Greater Wealth *Experienced Army *???

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9. Which event in U.S. history would best complete the box above?A. Nullification CrisisB. American Revolution beginsC. Purchase of the Louisiana TerritoryD. Completion of the Erie Canal

 10. During the American Revolution, Patriot troops had a geographic advantage over the British because --A. They had control of the Atlantic coastline and forced the British navy to retreat.B. They had secure supply routes and a greater amount of supplies.C. The distance from Great Britain made it difficult for the British to replace troops.D. The British Redcoats surrendered after only one year of fighting.

French & Indian War

1754

Stamp Act

1765 ? U. S. Constitution

written

1787