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Sarah Hawkins Michelle Schwartz Alysha Anderson Karelia Bello Grace Dixon

=The American Revolution- Scavenger Hunt Answer Key = Read the questions listed below about the events of the American Revolution and answer the questions by following the links to find the correct information.



=I. The Stamp Act/ The Sugar Act =

1. When was the [|stamp act] passed and who announced this new law?
 * **Answer:** March 1765. It was announced by Prime Minister George Grenville.

2. Why was the stamp act [|created]? Was it the first tax on America from Britain?
 * **Answer:** "The act was created to help cover the cost of maintaining troops in the colonies." It was the first direct tax from Britain on America.

3. What year was the [|sugar act] enacted and what items did it tax?
 * **Answer:** The sugar act was enacted in 1764. It taxed "sugar, molasses, textiles, coffee, and indigo."

4. Did Parliament [|repeal] the Stamp Act and if so, what Act was to be passed instead? If the Stamp Act was repealed, what official date was it repealed?
 * **Answer:** Parliament officially repealed the Stamp Act on March 18, 1766. It was repealed under one condition, it was under the condition that the Declaratory Act was to be passed. The Declaratory Act was passed on the same day the Stamp Act was repealed!

II The Boston Massacre


1. What were the [|causes] that led up to the Boston Massacre and when did it occur? Who was involved in the Boston Massacre?
 * **Answer: "** Taxation and other issues continued to build tension between Britain and the colonies. This tension showed between the colonists and the British soldiers posted in Boston. The townspeople resented the soldiers and treated them poorly, often harassing them verbally and physically. On the night of March 5, 1770, the tension burst."
 * Who was involved? British soldiers and townspeople

2. How did the Boston Massacre [|begin]?
 * **Answer:** "An argument broke out between the soldier and a local merchant, who was struck with the butt of a musket during the confrontation. A crowd assembled quickly and began pelting the sentry with a variety of materials — stones, oyster shells, ice, and chunks of coal. Tensions were further heightened when the bells of the city’s churches began to toll, the traditional means of summoning help in fighting fires."

3. How many people died [|during] the Boston Massacre and how many were injured?
 * **Answer:** "Finally, the squad fired into the unruly crowd, killing five men. Six more men were wounded."

4. After the Boston Massacre, [|trials] took place to determine what really happened during the mob attack. Who were some of the soldiers on trial?


 * **Answer:** Captain Thomas Preston, Corporal William Wemms, James Hartigan, William McCauley, Hugh White,Matthew Kilroy, William Warren, John Carrol, Hugh Montgomery

**III. The Boston Tea Party **


1. What did parliament excuse the [|East India Tea Company] from, and why did American merchants oppose?
 * **Answer:** “ On May 10, 1773, parliament authorized the East India Tea Co to export a half a million pounds of tea to the American colonies for the purpose of selling it without imposing upon the company the usual duties and tariffs. ” The reason that American merchants opposed this was because without the tariffs “ the company could undersell any other tea available in the colonies, including smuggled tea. ”

2. Read this eyewitness report from a colonist at the Boston Tea Party: [] What were the colonists dresses as to board the ships and what were they ordered to do on ce they were boarded?
 * **Answer:** The colonists were dressed as Indians and were ordered by their commander to open the hatches and take out all the chests of tea and throw them overboard.

3. How many crates [|crates] did the colonists dispose of that day? And how did Parliament and King George III respond to the tea party?
 * **Answer:** New England colonists dumped 342 crates into the Boston Harbor. Parliament and King George III responded by closing the city port.

4. England also responded with the [|Intolerable Acts] to retaliate against the colonists. What laws were put into place under the Intolerable or Coercive a cts?
 * ** Answer: ** The laws placed by the British government in response to the Boston Tea Party were the Quartering Act, the Boston Port Bill, the Administration of Justice Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, and the Quebec Act.

IV. The End of the American Revolution
1. In the [|Battle of Yorktown in 1781], General Washington led the Americans and Major General Lord Cornwallis led the British army. After twenty-two days of battle, what finally led to the [|surrender] of Major General Lord Cornwallis on the October 19, 1781?
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Answer**: With no sign of Clinton’s relief and with inadequate supplies of artillery ammunition and food, on 19th October 1781 Cornwallis’ army marched out of Yorktown and surrendered.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">2. What was the number of [|casualties] and wounded on both the American/French army and the British army once the Battle of Yorktown had ended?
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Answer**: The fighting at Yorktown cost the allies 72 killed and 180 wounded. British losses were higher and included 156 killed, 326 wounded.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">3. On September 3, 1783, the [|Treaty of Paris was signed] between the American colonies and Great Britain. What were [|two crucial provisions] of the treaty?
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Answer**: Two crucial provisions of the treaty were British recognition of U.S. independence and the delineation of boundaries that would allow for American western expansion.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">4. The Treaty of Paris also gave France, Spain, and Holland the freedom to navigate what river as well as gave the United States the [|right to fish] off of what country?
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Answer**: The treaty also made navigation of the Mississippi free to all signatories (which included France, Spain, and Holland) and gave the United States fishing rights off Newfoundland.

V. The Aftermath of War
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">1. During the American Revolution, the [|Articles of Confederation] were created in order to ensure what for America after the war?
 * **Answer:** The Articles of Confederation were created to form some sort of national government to help protect and defend against other foreign countries.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">2. After problems arose between state government and its people, it was clear that something had be created to unite the country under a form of government that could be enforced. As a result, state delegates met and formed the [|U.S. Constitution]. Where and in what year did this take place? How many states were needed in order to ratify it?
 * **Answer:** The Constitution was discussed and written from May to September of 1787 in Philadelphia. The Constitution required nine out of the thirteen colonies to approve it in order for it to be ratified.

3. Describe two [|changes] that came about after the Revolutionary War and one aspect that stayed the same.
 * **Answer:** Many changes resulted from the Revolutionary War. First, the idea of equality among all people of different social classes became more and more popular. Working hard started to mean more than how much wealth you had. Second, Women gained new political rights and opportunities because of the war; they gained the right to file for divorce and also began to work helping wounded soldiers. Even though these changes took place, life for slaves stayed the same. Southern colonies and states continued to use slaves as a means of labor, while Northern colonies and states did not support it.

4. During the American Revolution, many Native American tribes allied with the British while others allied with the colonists. However, after the Treaty of Paris was signed, what eventually happened to the [|Native Americans] as a result?
 * **Answer:** When colonists won America from the British**,** they not only took the remaining land that the Native Americans were living on but they also pushed them further and further west as settlers continued to expanded.