directions: using a scratch piece of paper, make two cards. label one card fact and the other fib....
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Fact or Fib: Revolution
Directions: Using a scratch piece of paper, make two cards. Label one
card fact and the other fib. When I put the statement on the
screen decide whether it is a fact or fib. When I say go, lay down your
card. Whoever plays the write card, gets a point!
Fact or Fib: Statement 1 The
Proclamation of 1763 banned colonial
settlement west of the
Appalachians.
FACT
Fact or Fib: Statement 2 The Sugar act
lowered the tax on molasses to stop smuggling caused by the
Navigation Acts. FA
CT
Fact or Fib: Statement 3 The Stamp
Act taxed all imported good (tea, glass) and
included the Quartering
Act.
FIBThe Townshend Acts did all this. The Stamp Act taxed all printed materials.
Fact or Fib: Statement 4 The Boston
Massacre was a Boston
protest that led to death
of colonists by British
soldiers.
FACT
Fact or Fib: Statement 5 The Tea Act of 1773 helped
protect colonial
merchants by placing a tax
on tea.
FIBThe Tea Act helped the East India Tea Company by allowing them to sell directly to colonial merchants.
Fact or Fib: Statement 6 The passing
of the Intolerable Acts caused the Boston Tea Party.
FIBActually, the Intolerable Acts were an effect of the Boston Tea Party.
Fact or Fib: Statement 7Taxation without
representation,unfair searches and seizures, and
quartering soldiers were all colonial
grievances complained about in the Declaration of Independence.
FACT
Fact or Fib: Statement 8 Samuel
Adams was a Bostonian
who warned the Patriots of
the British movements.
FIBThis describes the actions of Paul Revere. Sam Adams organized the Sons of Liberty to protest British Actions.
Fact or Fib: Statement 9
FACT
Patrick Henry was a
powerful orator and his famous words include “Give me liberty or
give me death!”
Fact or Fib: Statement 11 The First
Continental Congress began to
govern the colonies.
FIBThis actually fits the 2nd Congress. The 1st Congress called for repeal of British acts, boycott of British goods, and the raising of militias.
Fact or Fib: Statement 12
FACT
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were
the first battles of the
American Revolution.
Fact or Fib: Statement 13 The Second Continental Army picked
Benedict Arnold as commander in chief of the Continental
Army.
FIBActually, they picked George Washington.
Fact or Fib: Statement 14 The Olive Branch
Petition was written by Thomas
Jefferson to declare
independence.
FIBThe petition was the colonies’ last attempt to declare loyalty to Britain and ask for cancellation of all acts.
Fact or Fib: Statement 15
FACT
The Declaration of Independence
stated that everyone had
the right to life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness.
Fact or Fib: Statement 16 The
Declaration had 5 parts
and was officially
adopted on July 4, 1776.
FIBThe date is correct, but it only had 4 parts. A preamble, declaration of rights, grievances, and declaration of independence.
Fact or Fib: Statement 17Nathan Hale was an army general who switched to the British side during the war.
FIBThis describes Benedict Arnold. Nathan Hale was a patriot spy who was hung by the British. His famous last words – “I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Fact or Fib: Statement 19
FACT
John Paul Jones was an
American Naval officer who refused
to surrender. Said,” I have not yet begun
to fight.”
Fact or Fib: Statement 20
FACT
Benjamin Franklin and
Thomas Jefferson were in France during the war
trying to get the French to
support the American cause.
Fact or Fib: Statement 21The Marquis de Lafayette was a
Prussian military officer
who helped trained the Continental
Army at Valley Forge.
FIBThis describes Frederich von Steuben. Lafayette was a French aristocrat who served as Washinton’s aide during most of the war.
Fact or Fib: Statement 22
FACT
Loyalist or tories were
colonists who were loyal to Britain and opposed the
war for Independence.
Fact or Fib: Statement 23
FACT
At the Battle of Bunker Hill in June of 1775,
the British realized that
defeating Americans would be difficult.
Fact or Fib: Statement 24
FACT
The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the
war and convinced the
French to support the Americans.
Fact or Fib: Statement 25Valley Forge
was the battle where
Benedict Arnold first met up with
the army after betraying the
Patriots.
FIBValley Forge is where the colonists spent the winter of 1777-78 and endured many hardships. The rest I made up. ;-)
Fact or Fib: Statement 26George
Washington lost at the battle of
Trenton when the Hessians did a surprise
attack on Christmas day.
FIBWell, actually Washington won because he and his troops surprised the Hessians on Christmas Day.
Fact or Fib: Statement 27
FACT
The Battle of Yorktown
marked the end of the war when
Cornwallis surrendered after he was
surrounded by the Continental
Army and French.