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AMERICAN REVOLUTION VIRTUAL TOUR
You are going to be visiting various sites that played an important part in the beginning of the American Revolution. You will click on the number on the maps to visit the sites. Save this worksheet as a word document in your S drive, and then type your answers directly on the worksheet. File name for the document should be your last name.
Do NOT copy and paste the answers; put the answers in your own
words.
Directions for saving your finished worksheet in BuPublic, so it can be graded, are at the end of this worksheet.
You will NOT save in BuPublic until the end of Day 2.
VISIT THE SITES IN
NUMERICAL ORDER
Site
1 First stop
is the OLD STATE HOUSE in Boston
1.
What different
uses/purposes did this building have ?
2.
Name some famous
people who debated in this building:
a.
Why were these debates important? 
3.
What historic
events took place here? History happened
here, says the webpage.
Site 2a The
second stop on your tour is the OLD
SOUTH MEETING HOUSE in Boston
1.
How would you
describe the role of the Old South Meeting House in leading to the American
Revolution?
2.
On November 29, 1773
what resolution was made by the colonists regarding the tea that Britain wanted
to tax?
3.
In a letter to
Mercy O. Warren, how did Abigail Adams describe the feeling of the citizens who
opposed the tax on tea?
Site 2b
Continuing in Boston, your next stop is the BOSTON TEA PARTY SHIP. Go to Tea Party FAQ’s (bottom of page) and answer these
questions: 
1.
How many British
ships were carrying tea?
2.
How much would
the tea that was dumped be worth today?
3.
Were the ships
damaged during this “tea party”? Explain
4.
Go to the top of
the web page and click on Boston Tea
Party Facts, then click on The
Aftermath/. What did Britain do in
response to the tea party?
Site
2c You are going to read an eyewitness account by an actual participant in
the Boston Tea Party. 
Skim
through this account of what happened the night of the tea party.
1.
The colonists
were surrounded by British armed ships when they boarded the boats to dump the
tea. Why do you think the British
soldiers didn’t do anything when all of the tea was being dumped into the
water? 
2.
Why would the
colonists not want any of the townspeople or “Indians” to carry off the
tea?
Site
3a CARPENTER’S
HALL, PHILADELPHIA
1.
What is the historical significance of the hall?
2.
What group of delegates met at this hall on September 5, 1774?
3.
For what purpose did they meet?
Site 3b Continue your tour at CARPENTER’S HALL in Philadelphia, PA.
1. The colonies represented at the First Continental
Congress didn’t agree about how to resolve the problems with England. What did
they all agree to?
Site 4 Your tour continues
in Philadelphia at INDEPENDENCE
HALL 
1.
Independence Hall is considered the birthplace of the U.S. List two things important to U.S. history that
happened there:
2.
Scroll down to the picture of the President’s Chair. At the Constitutional Convention, why would
Ben Franklin have said that he now knew the carving on the chair was “…a
rising, and not a setting sun?”
Site 5 Next stop is Boston and the OLD
NORTH CHURCH 
1.
Read paragraphs 4 & 5 that describe the events leading up to Paul
Revere’s ride. Continue reading
paragraphs 7, 8 & 9.
What was the backup signal to warn the patriots the
British were heading their way?
2.
What was significant, or irony, about this happening in the Old North
Church?
3.
What date did this occur?
4.
What part did Paul Revere play in this event?
Site 6 Still
in Boston, you are going to the PAUL
REVERE HOUSE 
1.
What was Paul Revere’s occupation?
2.
List 2 of his political activities leading up to the Revolutionary war.
3.
He is most known for his Midnight Ride.
a.
What was the purpose of the ride?
b. Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow immortalized that ride in a poem.
What are the first 3 lines of the poem?
Site 7 The next stop is the green in LEXINGTON, Massachusetts 
1.
What happened in this first
skirmish between the patriots and the British?
2.
What did Samuel Adams say to John Hancock after the skirmish?
3.
The minutemen lost more people, and had more wounded that the
British. Why would Adams say what he
did?
Site 8 You are moving down the road a short distance to the village
of CONCORD, Massachusetts. 
1.
What did the British general Thomas Gage want to seize in Concord?
2.
Were the British successful in this operation?
Site 9 Now you’re heading to FORT
TICONDEROGA ,
New York which was held by the British. 
Scroll down
to The American Revolution.
1.
What happened on May 10, 1775?
2.
What did the Americans do with the cannons after the captured Fort
Ticonderoga?
Site 10 Next stop on your tour is back in Boston at BUNKER HILL, the first major battle of
the 
American Revolution.
1.
What was critical to the British in order to occupy Boston?
2.
Paragraph 4 says the colonial troops, rather than digging in at Bunker
Hill, chose to dig in at Breed’s Hill, and build an earthen redoubt.
What is a redoubt?
Site 11 Last stop on your tour is the
LIBERTY BELL in Philadelphia.
The bell is an important part
of our history. The bell we can see
today arrived in Philadelphia in
1754. Look
at the Liberty Bell Timeline and write down for what reason the bell was
rung on these specific dates:
1.
Sept. 1764
2.
Oct. 1765
3.
April, 1768
4.
Feb. 1771
5.
June, 1774
6. April,
1775
Saving Work into the Student Dropbox
- Save your work first to your S:
drive. Follow your teacher's directions on what the file
should be named. (Usually
last name)
- Open up My Computer, open
up your S: drive and find the file you wish to place into
the dropbox
- Single-click the file name
(highlight, don’t open). Since you don't have right-click
capabilities here, go to Edit / Copy or Control C
- Go to bupublic, Student
Dropbox, and open the folder for your teacher. If the teacher
has made other folders for periods, open yours.
- Once the folder is open, go to edit
/ paste or Control V
- Check to see that the file went into the correct folder (if it shows 0 KB of information in the column under Size, something wasn’t done correctly- ask for help)