Revolutionary War Scavenger Hunt
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1. What
was signed in 1763? By whom was it signed?
2. What did it say? Use your own words to
explain.
3. When was the Sugar Act passed?
4. What was passed in 1765?
Name 8 items which
were taxed.
5. What happened on December
16, 1773?
6. What event happened on March
5, 1770?
Describe in your own words what happened on this day.
7. Who actually hung the two lanterns in the Old North
Church?
8. On what date did Paul Revere make his historic ride?
9. Who
went with Paul Revere on this ride?
10. Fill
in the blanks with the appropriate words:
At dawn on April 19 about 70 armed
Massachusetts militiamen stand face to face on Lexington Green with the
British advance guard. An unordered '____________________ ____________________
____________________
____________________
____________________'
begins the ____________________
____________________.
11. After Lexington, where
did the British go?
12. How far is it from Lexington, Massachusetts to
Concord, Massachusetts?
13. On what date was the battle
of Trenton, NJ fought?
14. What
was one of the most
commonly used (popular) weapons of the Revolutionary War?
15. What was the most
powerful
weapon used?
16. What young
woman posed as a man so that she could serve for the American Army
in the War for Independence?
17. Fill in the blanks to complete
this sentence from the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created ____________________,
that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that
among these are ____________________,
____________________
and
the pursuit of ____________________.