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Name: ______________________________SOL Review: Revolution
PART A: COLONIAL DISSATISFACTION
Read these main ideas and use the information to answer the questionsbelow:
Why 
did England want to keep strict control over the Americancolonies?
o
England wanted to stay as powerful as other European countries.
o
England wanted to use the colonies to become wealthy.
o
England had to protect the colonies from other countries andfrom Native Americans.
How
did England control the American colonies?
o
 The king chose governors for each colony.
o
England controlled the colonial legislatures.
o
England taxed the colonies. (To pay for troops and the Frenchand Indian War)Examples: Tea Act, Stamp Act
o
 The Proclamation of 1763 stopped the colonists from movingwest of the Appalachians.1. You are an American colonist who is dissatisfied with English control.Which English action has made you the unhappiest? ________________________________ Explain why you think this action is wrong: __________________________________________  _____________________________________________________________________________  _ 2. You are King George III.Which English form of control do you think is the most important? _____________________________________________________________________________  _ Explain why. _____________________________________________________________________________  _ 
 
PART B: IDEAS OF THE REVOLUTION: JOHN LOCKEand the DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE
1. The colonists became more and more unhappy with English rule. Theywere especially angry that they were being taxed even though they did nothave any representatives in Parliament.Many colonists cried “No __________________ without _____________________!”2. At the same time, people had some new ideas about government. Somepeople now believed that having a king with all of the power may not be thebest (or most fair) kind of government.
 John Locke
was one of these important thinkers. His idea was that all people have _______________ rights to __________, ________________, and __________________.3.
 John Locke
also said that government is created to protect the rights of the people. Government only has the powers that the _________________ agree to give it. (This is very different from having a king! Where does aking get his power? _______________________ )4.
Thomas Paine
agreed with these new ideas. He wanted everyone in thecolonies to understand them, so he wrote a pamphlet that anyone couldunderstand, called ___________________________.4. When ___________________________________ wrote the
Declaration of Independence
he used a lot of John Locke’s ideas.
 
5. The
Declaration of Independence
states that people have unalienable _______________ to life, liberty, and ______________________________________________. “Unalienable” means thatthese rights cannot be taken away. Everyone has them.6. The
Declaration of Independence
also says that government getspower from the people. If the government is not protecting people’s rights,they have a right and a duty to __________ it.7. What is the date of the approval of the Declaration of Independence? _______________ 
PART C: THE COLONISTS REBELWord Bank:
First Continental CongressBoston MassacreSaratogaDeclaration of IndependenceBoston HarborConcord Treaty of ParisMassachusetts YorktownIndependenceTea ActFranceSpain1. Colonists in Boston were shot for taunting British soldiers during the _________________________________________.2. Sam Adams and Paul Revere led the patriots to throw tea into the _________________________________ to protest the __________________.3. Delegates from all of the colonies met to discuss the problems they werehaving with England. This meeting is called the _______________________________________________.4. The colonists began to gather weapons in case they needed to fight. TheBritish heard about some weapons stored at Lexington and ________________,
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