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Study Guide

Road to
Independence
Sleepy Eye – 8th Grade History

The following list is made up of concepts, people, terms and vocabulary you will need to know for the Chapter
5 Test. Most of the questions on the test will come from the items on this page. A great study strategy for the
test is to go back through your notes and highlight or make note of the material on this list to help focus your
study time. If the items are not listed in your notes, refer to your textbook.

Proclamation Line of 1763 The Boston Massacre Paul Revere

Sugar Act John Adams Loyalists

Townshend Acts What was the outcome of the Patriots


Boston Massacre trial?

Stamp Act Committees of Battle of Bunker Hill


Correspondence

Patrick Henry Boston Tea Party 2nd Continental Congress

Sons of Liberty Tea Tax George Washington

Boycott Militia Olive Branch Petition

Writ of Assistance Minutemen Thomas Paine/Common Sense

Daughters of Liberty King’s reaction to Boston Tea Declaration of Independence


Party (purpose, rights listed,
grievances etc.)
Crispus Attucks 1st Continental Congress
Thomas Jefferson

Why were the colonists so Battle of Lexington & Concord Extra Credit: Memorize the
upset with the “We hold these truths…”
Stamp/Sugar/Townshend
Possible Essays: paragraph of the Declaration.
acts? Coercive Acts
- What do you think was the main cause of the American Revolution?
- Why is the Declaration of Independence still important today?

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