American Revolution

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Test resources Steps Leading to American Revolution

 

Helpful Links

  1. American Dream- A website of Patriotic Interviews of the founding fathers.  Each interview uses quotes from one of the founding fathers and has other information about the founding father.

  2. Stamp Act Congress- Primary document of stamp act congress of 1765
  3. Images of the American Revolution- NARA archives of the American Revolution
  4. The Price of Freedom- Information on the battles of the American Revolution, along with all American War.  Created by Smithsonian.
  5. Women of the American Revolution- Helpful information of all the women in the American Revolution.   Biographies of American Revolutions

Conversation-  Using the sites above you and your partner will create a conversation between two Patriots of the Revolution.  The conversation should do the following:

  1. Explain why the two people were important.
  2. Explain who the two people were.
  3. Describe a major event of one of the people.
  4. When the event took place.
  5. Show what the point of view of the character would have been relating to the event that took place. 
  6. Have some sort of entertainment value.  \

Grading Rubric



Battles of Revolution

People

  1. Betsy Ross

  2. Paul Revere

  3. Henry Knox

  4. General Cornwallis

  5. Benedict Arnold

  6. Thomas Paine

  7. Nathan Hale

  8. John Burgoyne

  9. Marquis de Lafayette

  10. Thaddeus Kosciusko

  11. Fredrick von Steuben

  12. George Rogers Clark

  13. John Paul Jones

  14. George Washington

  15. Molly Pitcher

  16. Peter Salem

  17. Nathaniel Greene

  18. Francis Marion

  19. Ethan Allen

  20. Samuel Adams

  21. Ben Franklin

  22. Deborah Sampson

  23. Phillis Wheatley

  24. Margaret Corbin

  25. Mercy Otis Warren

  26. Hannah Arnett

  27. Betty Zane

  28. Kate Berry

  29. Martha Washington

  30. Nancy Hart

  31. Grace or Rachel Martin

  32. Prudence Wright

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