let’s take a minute to review…

Today we will review our knowledge and readiness for testing

over the era of the American Revolution using writing kernels, a classification activity, games, and

practice STAAR questions.

Let’s take a minute to review…

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Writing for Understanding• Read

“Important Ideas about the American Revolution

• Complete the sentence kernels on the right on your paper.

• Be ready to share with class.

1. After the French & Indian War …2. Colonists objected to …3. The British …4. The colonists …5. The Declaration of Independence …6. American troops …7. The war …

Who’s Who in the American Revolution

• Look at the 3 classifications of people on the paper DELEGATES ORDINARY SOLDIERS PEOPLE• Organize the people on the cards according to their

role in the American Revolution• Now exchange cards and repeat the process.• (George Washington can fit in two places )

Who Did What in

American History?

A: B:Benedict Arnold Thomas Jefferson

#1Commander of the Continental Army and

1st US President?

C: D: George WashingtonBenjamin Franklin

D: George

Washington

A: B:Quartering Act Proclamation Act of 1763

#2Law that banned colonists from moving west

Of the Appalachians?

C: D:Intolerable Acts Treaty of Paris of 1763

B: The Proclamation

of 1763

A: B:George Washington & John Adams

Ben Franklin & Thomas Jefferson

#3Delegates to 2nd Continental Congress, DeclarationCommittee members, Treaty of Paris delegates?

C: D:John Adams & Ben Franklin

Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry

C: John Adams & Ben Franklin

A: B:Abigail Adams Phillis Wheatley

#4Wrote plays in support of independence

C: D:Thomas Paine Mercy Otis Warren

D: Mercy Otis Warren

A: B:Lord North The Marquis de Lafayette

#5Helper in American Revolution!

C: D:Nat Turner Henry Clay

B: The Marquis de Layfayette

A: B:Crispus Attucks James Armistead

#6One of five to die in the Boston Massacre

C: D:Haym Salomon Wentworth Cheswell

A: Crispus Attucks

A: B: Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine

#7Wrote Common Sense and an American Crisis?

C: D:Mercy Otis WarrenJohn Adams

B: Thomas Paine

A: B:Haym Salomon & James Armistead

James Armistead &

Wentworth Cheswell

#8Both spies, one financed the Continental Congress,

The other helped bring about victory at Yorktown

C: D:Benedict Arnold & Haym Salomon

Benedict Arnold & Lafayette

A: Haym Salomon &

James Armistead

A: B:Lexington & Concord Antietam

#9Turning point battle of the Revolution

C: D:Saratoga Gettysburg

C: Saratoga

A: B:Marquis de Lafayette Bernardo de Galvez

#10Governor of New Spain who sent food,

Guns, uniforms, and supplies to Continental Army.

C: D:Santa Anna Aaron Burr

B: Bernardo de Galvez

A: B:John Adams George Washington

#11Father of the US Navy, attacked British mainland,

Said, “I have not yet begun to fight.”

C: D:Wentworth Cheswell John Paul Jones

D: John Paul Jones

A: B:African American Patriots

Abolitionists during the Revolution

#12James Armistead

Wentworth CheswellCrispus AttucksPhillis Wheatley

C: D:American Loyalists Soldiers in the Continental Army

A: African American Patriots

A: B:Members of the Continental Army

Delegates to the 2nd Continental Congress

#13Thomas JeffersonBenjamin Franklin

John Adams

C: D:Presidents of the USA Writers of the US Constitution

B: Delegates to the 2nd

Continental Congress

A: B:Abigail Adams Mercy Otis Warren

#14One of the first supporters of equal rights forWomen that we have record of – in letters to Her husband during 2nd Continental Congress

C: D:Martha Jefferson Elizabeth Cady Stanton

D: Abigail Adams

A: B:Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln

#15Who wrote the words… “We hold these truths to be

Self evident, that all men are created equal, that they areEndowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights,

That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuitOf happiness.”

C: D:Thomas Paine Henry David Thoreau

A: Thomas Jefferson

So Who Did You Know?

Shine on the STAAR

Practice STAAR QuestionsExit Ticket

•Which result of the French and Indian War contributed to the American Revolution?A.    The British lost control of Montreal and all of Canada.B.    The British decided to make the colonists help repay their war debt.C.    Native American Indians were sold lands east of the Appalachian Mountains.D.    French colonies expanded along the Atlantic seacoast.

 •What was the British government’s aim in passing the Stamp Act of 1765?  to unite the colonists against the SpanishB.    to lower the cost of tea in the British coloniesC.    to raise money to help pay the cost of British troops in North AmericaD.    to reduce conflicts between the colonists and American Indians

 •Which statement is most consistent with the views of Samuel Adams?A.    Taxation without representation is tyranny.B.    Colonists should remain loyal to Great Britain.C.    King George III may be a tyrant, but the British Parliament is fair.Americans should protest but not declare independence.

•Which event demonstrated that citizens sometimes disobey government policies when they feel they are being treated unfairly?Boston Tea PartyB.    Ratification of the ConstitutionC.    Boston MassacreD.    Valley Forge

“I long to hear that you have declared an independency; and by the way in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.”

•Whose views are represented in the passage? A.    Phillis WheatlyB.    Mercy Otis WarrenC.    Elizabeth Cady StantonAbigail Adams