Student Name: Chrystelle Angerville

The Revolutionary Americans Module Review 
DIRECTIONS: As you review the lessons in this module, answer each of these questions. 

Liberty or Death 
1. How did Patrick Henry's "Speech to the Virginia Convention" spark a revolution?
His speech sparked a revolution by urging the Virgina Convention to send troops to
aid the Continental Army in the Revolutionary by mentioning in his speech that now
was the time to act, when the British soldiers were trying to enforce their colonial
rule through the overloading of troops on American soil.

2. What was the purpose of the speech, and what did it accomplish?
The purpose of Henry's speech was to persuade the Virginia House members that
it was for the good of the American colonies to separate from the British monarch
and fight for the right of their independence. This speech accomplished convincing
the Virginia House to raise a militia and fight in the war against Britain, which
eventually led to the colonies winning the Revolutionary War and gaining American
independence.
Student Name: Chrystelle Angerville

The Revolutionaries Module Review 
   
Declaring a Nation 
1. Summarize the argument made in the Declaration of Independence. (Identify the 
document’s stated purpose, and list its main reasons.)  
 
The main purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to show the world
 (including Britain) that America was separating from British rule, as well as explain
 why they had to do so. With the document exhibiting the Enlightenment ideals of "All
 Men are created equal," "People have certain Inalienable Rights including Life,
 Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness," and "Individuals have a civic duty to defend these
 rights for themselves and others" as the main reasons behind writing the document,
 the American colonies wrote this document explaining how the British monarch
 violated these ideas, hence why they had to separate from Britain.
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

 
Student Name: Chrystelle Angerville

The Revolutionaries Module Review 
   
An Unlikely Poet 
1. What made Phillis Wheatley “an unlikely poet”?  
 Phillis Wheatley, being an African-American slave who barely knew English, was
 the first African-American, slave, and third woman to ever publish their own book of
 poems. This made her "an unlikely poet" because given the circumstances of her
identity and the restrictions of the time period she was living in, something like this
 
should've been an extremely difficult, or even an impossible, feat to accomplish.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Why was her literary career so unusual?  
 Her literary career was so unusual due to how she got to the poetic position she
 was in. Once she was shipped across the ocean and auctioned off as a slave,
 Phillis Wheatley was sold to the house of the Wheatley couple in Boston. This
 family educated her on the language of English and Latin, as well as read the Bible.
Due to this education, Phillis found herself to be talented in poetic impressions, in
 which the Wheatley family favored them. They sought out American publishers to
 publish a book of Phillis' poems under her name, yet no one in America was willing
 to do that for a slave, regardless of recognitions. So, the Countess Huntingdon
 Selina Hastings, a friend of the Wheatleys and an advocate of abolition of slavery,
aided in the publication of Phillis' poems by asking her London friends to publish it
 
in London. It was inferred that the popular sentiments of Phillis' works persuaded
 John Wheatley into giving Phillis' freedom from slavery.