AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Reading Comprehension
What is a loyalist?
What is a Patriot?
Reading Comprehension Questions (8 min): Read page 54-55 in your Coach Book and answer the following questions.
1)The King George the III raised money to pay for the ______by taxing the American colonists, the complaint from the colonists was that this taxation occurred without ______in British government.
2)The first rounds of taxes came from the ______Act which taxed non-British sugar, coffee and textiles.
3)The ______Act of 1765 placed a tax on documents, permits, newspapers, even playing cards.
4)The Stamp Act was repealed after the colonist protested and even assembled a ______Congress in order to draft a petition and send it to the king.
5)The British soon had a new tax in the ______Act (which taxed glass, paint, oil, paper, and tea) and by 1768, colonist violent and constant boycotts of British goods resulted in another repeal.
6)By 1773, the colonists protesting the Tea Act dumped 90,000 lbs of tea in BostonHarbor in an event known as the ______.
7)The acts that followed were meant to punish the Bostonians for Boston Tea Party; these acts would be known as the ______Acts.
Reading Comprehension Questions (8 min): Read page 55-56 in your Coach Book and answer the following questions.
8)Many Georgian were hesitant about joining a revolution that would leave them defenseless against the large number of ______at our backwoods border.
9)Georgia’s division in loyalty is evident in the fact that Georgia sent no representative to the ______.
10)Even with a divided population, many ______decided to support the fight for independence from Britain.
11)As support for the Revolution grew, ______were often tarred and feathered because of their loyalty to Great Britain.
12)On July 4, 1776, The Declaration of Independence was signed at the Second Continental Congress by ______, ______, and ______from Georgia
Political cartoon (5 min): Let’s check out the image projected and answer these questions.
- What is the tea tax collector being force fed?
- What is the tea tax collector wearing?
- What is happening on the boat in the back ground?
- What symbols are in the tree in the back ground?
- Paul Revere drew this picture. Do you consider this to be realistic, historic depiction of events or propaganda?
Political Cartoon (5 min): Answer these following questions below about the political cartoon that I’ll project.
1. What does each segment of the snake represent?
2. What does the order of the segments illustrate?
3. What does the entire snake represent?
4. What does the caption mean?
5. Which statement best describes the message of the political cartoon.
a. To kill a snake, you must cut it up
b. The colonies must unite together to be strong or they will perish
c. If a snake grows back together, the colonies will be strong
Georgia’s Signers
a. Button Gwinnettb. Lyman Hallc. George Walton
_____1. Named after his godmother.
_____2. Only Georgian at the Second Continental Congress.
_____3. Parents died when he was a child.
_____4. Going to be a carpenter but became a lawyer.
_____5. Merchant that opened a store in Savannah.
_____6. Brief governor of Georgia.
_____7. Shot in the thigh and knocked off his horse.
_____8. Was a Doctor.
_____9. Pistol duel with McIntosh.
_____10. Chief Justice U.S Senate and Governor.
_____11. Home and plantation destroyed.
_____13. Autograph worth $100,000.