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The American Revolution

Roots of the Conflict
Answer: 342 crates of tea were dumped into the ocean in response to a parliamentary act which imposed restrictions on the purchase of tea in the colonies.
 * 1. What causes to impose restriction on the purchase of tea in the colonies?**

Answer: Benjamin Franklin was sent to France in December, 1776 to secure French aid for the Revolution.
 * 2. Where was Benjamin Franklin sent and why? (Hint: open link of Benjamin Franklin)**

Answer: The ,which was intended by Parliament to provide the funds necessary to keep the peace between settlers and the populations in the wilderness, was loathed throughout the colonies.While its repeal in Parliament a year later was applauded by Americans, the British Government quickly enacted other provisions designed to fulfill the same function.
 * 3. What is the 1765 Stamp Act? Do you think that the Stamp Act was successful and why?**

Everyday Life
Answer: Women had few legal rights. She could hold no property unless she was an unmarried spinster or a widow. Women could not be granted divorce and were legally beaten by their husbands for disobedience. Women indentured servants could not marry without the consent of their masters, same for slave women.
 * 1. What legal rights did women have? What rights did they //__not__// have?**

Answer: Reading, writing, simple math, poems, and prayers.
 * 2. What things did children learn in school?**

Answer: Songs were not written down, but were taught orally and passed down by word of mouth.
 * 3. How were songs passed down generations during the time of the American Revolution?**

Battles - Into the Fray
Answer: The Battles of Lexington and Concord; Massachusetts
 * 1. Which two battles marked the beginning of the Revolution? In which state did they take place?**


 * 2. Complete this sentence: “The march back to Boston...established --- -- as the colonists’ best defense strategy against the British.”**

Answer: guerilla warfare

Answer: c) Trenton and Princeton
 * 3. The Battles of --- and, which took place in December 1776, helped turn the tide of the American Revolution.**

Popular Political Figures
Answer: Benedict Arnold was an American soldier who became a well-known traitor of the American Revolutionary War.
 * 1.Who was Benedict Arnold and what was he known for during the Revolutionary War? **

Answer: He completed the Star Spangled Banner sailing to Baltimore and in the Indian Queen Hotel in September 1814.
 * 2. Where and when did Francis Scott Key complete the Star Spangled Banner? **

Answer: He was sent to tell Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British were coming by sea to arrest them.
 * 3. What message was Paul Revere to deliver? To whom was the message intended? **

The Declaration of Independence
Answer: self-evident; equal; rights; Life; Liberty; Happiness
 * 1. Fill in the blanks: "We hold these truths to be -, that all men are created ---, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable -, that among these are --, -, and the pursuit of --."**

Answer: Thomas Jefferson; Benjamin Franklin and John Adams
 * 2. Who drafted The Declaration of Independence? Who edited it?** (under section titled “The Committee of Five”)

Answer: August 2, 1776
 * 3. On what date did the delegates of Congress begin to sign the engrossed copy of The Declaration of Independence?**

**Weapons of the American Revolution**
> The ingredients are saltpeter, sulphur, and charcoal, in equal parts by weight (more saltpeter in the mixture will produce powder for muskets, even more will give you pistol powder.) > The smooth bore musket was the most common weapon of the American Revolution. > Yes; he did view the submarine attack as "ungentlemanly".
 * 1) What are the ingredients of gunpowder used in the projectile type weapons of the American Revolution?
 * 1) What was the most common weapon of the American Revolution?
 * 1) Did General George Washington loathe the submarine manner of attack as "ungentlemanly"?