It's a Revolution | ||
#1 | A young Virginian lawyer that drafts a document declaring the colonies are "free and independent states" | Thomas Jefferson |
#2 | The Age of Reason tells us that by using reason, humans could manage themselves without depending on what? | past traditions, the bible, kings or queens, God |
#3 | One of the results of the American Revolution |
Cities grow, richer cultural life, Washington elected president |
#4 | Colonists wrote these during the Revolutionary Period | pamphlets, speeches, songs, poems |
#5 | England withdrew the stamp tax of 1765 because of American demonstration and then imposed this act for fear of looking weak | Townshend Act |
By the numbers | ||
#1 | The years of the Revloutionary Period are from: | 1730-1800 |
#2 | The War of Words began in this year | 1763 |
#3 | The Boston Massacre resulted in this many deaths | 5 |
#4 | This number of crates of tea end up in the harbor during the Boston Tea Party | 342 |
#5 | What was the year of the Boston Tea Party | 1773 |
The New America | ||
#1 | The first American novel written | The Power of Sympathy |
#2 | The type of discourse that uses reason and emotional appeals to convince another person to think or act in a certain way | persuasive |
#3 | The name of the purchase that resulted in the addition of 800,000 acres | Louisiana Purchase |
#4 | The person responsible for the purchase of what would become 13 states | Thomas Jefferson |
#5 | One of the parts to the Declaration of Independence | preamble, list of complaints, declaration or foreward |
Who wrote it | ||
#1 | Speech to the Virginia Convention | Patrick Henry |
#2 | The Crisis #1 | Thomas Paine |
#3 | The Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
#4 | Letters to John Adams | Abigail Adams |
#5 | Strive Towards Freedom | Martin Luther King Jr |
The Works | ||
#1 | In "Speech to the Virginian Convention," the speaker assumes there will be this many people fighting for the holy cause of freedom | 3 million |
#2 | In the "Declaration" who is the "He"? | The king of Britain |
#3 | This person is considered the greatest orator of the period | Patrick Henry |
#4 | This person died on the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
#5 | The emphasis in Classicism was on Human ______________________ | Limitations |
Final Question | |
Patrick Henry's speech to the Virginia Convention was delivered on this date | March 23, 1775 |