Introduction
This is a Webquest about the American Revolution. Before we get started here is what caused the revolution to start. THIS IS A PARAGRAPH FROM http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/american-revolution-history
For more than a decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, tensions had been building between colonists and the British authorities. Attempts by the British government to raise revenue by taxing the colonies (notably the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Tariffs of 1767 and the Tea Actof 1773) met with heated protest among many colonists, who resented their lack of representation in Parliament and demanded the same rights as other British subjects. Colonial resistance led to violence in 1770, when British soldiers opened fire on a mob of colonists, killing five men in what was known as the Boston Massacre. After December 1773, when a band of Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor, an outraged Parliament passed a series of measures (known as the Intolerable, or Coercive Acts) designed to reassert imperial authority in Massachusetts.
Did You Know?
Now most famous as a traitor to the American cause, General Benedict Arnold began the Revolutionary War as one of its earliest heroes, helping lead rebel forces in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775.
In response, a group of colonial delegates (including George Washington of Virginia, John and Samuel Adams of Massachusetts, Patrick Henry of Virginia and John Jay of New York) met in Philadelphia in September 1774 to give voice to their grievances against the British crown. This First Continental Congress did not go so far as to demand independence from Britain, but it denounced taxation without representation, as well as the maintenance of the British army in the colonies without their consent, and issued a declaration of the rights due every citizen, including life, liberty, property, assembly and trial by jury. The Continental Congress voted to meet again in May 1775 to consider further action, but by that time violence had already broken out. On April 19, local militiamen clashed with British soldiers in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, marking the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War.
Task
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/american-revolution-history
Read the paragraph SARATOGA: THE TURING POINT OF THE WAR and answer the questions below.
1. Who won the battle of Saratoga?
2. What did the Americans gain from the victory of this battle?
3. Why do they call this the turning point of the war?
Process
Watch the video and answer the questions below.
1. Why did the British send African Americans into war?
2. Why were the British building trenches in Yorktown?
3. Why was Cornwallis waiting near Yorktown?
Evaluation
http://www.ushistory.org/us/11.asp
Read the passage and answer the questions below.
1. What are minutemen?
2. When was the battle of Lexington-Concord?
3. During Bunker Hill did the colonists have a high number of casualties or a low number?
Conclusion
http://online.infobase.com/HRC/Search/Details/201274?q=American%20Revolution
Read the passage above and answer the questions below.
1. How long did the American Revolution last?
2. What did the French do to help the Americans(what did they supply them with?)
3. What did women do to help out during the Revolution?
Credits
http://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/Valley-Forge/277537
Read the passage above about Valley Forge and answer the questions below.
1. What years was this camp used by the Continental Army?
2. Who was not able to provide the resources George Washington needed for the camp?
3. Why did they decide to put the camp in Northwest of Philadelphia?
Teacher Page
As you can see the American Revolution was a very tough time and us Americans fought for our independence and didn't stop until they got what they wanted.