November+9,+2009

Name: Per.#
REVOLUTIONARY WAR INTERNET SCAVENGER HUNT

==Click on the highlighted word in each question to travel to the site on which you will find the answers. If there is no highlighted word, then stay on the page you are presently viewing and search for the answer there. You may have to choose different links within a site to find the answers. Remember you will be using YOUR OWN paper to record your answers - You WILL need to keep up with this paper until you finish this Webquest!!==


=== 3. When was the Sugar Act passed? (Be sure to use the link highlighted in this question to find the answer, as it provides the answer to numbers 4-7 as well) ===


=== 8. Who actually hung the two lanterns in the Old North Church on April 18, 1775? ===


=== 11. On what date did Paul Revere make his historic ride? ===


=== 13. On what night of the week did Revere make this ride? (the site asks for a birthdate, but you can put any date in and get a correct day of the week returned) ===


=== "Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war,let it begin here." ===


=== __ "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country". __ ===


=== Go to History Place and fill in the blanks with the appropriate words: ===


===<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 15. At dawn on April 19 about 70 armed Massachusetts militiamen stand face to face on Lexington Green with the British advance guard. An unordered ' _ _ _ _ _ ' begins the _ _. ===

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===<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 18. What were the British and American losses (dead and wounded) at Bunker Hill? ===

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===<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 19. Who was the commander of the British forces who ordered his troops to destroy the military stores at Concord in April of 1775? ===

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===<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 20. What Revolutionary War battle was fought on October 7, 1780? ===

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===<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 24. What was one of the most commonly used (popular) weapons of the Revolutionary War? ===

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===<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 27. What young woman posed as a man so that she could serve for the American Army in the War for Independence? ===

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===<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 28. What were the names of the two sisters who stole an important message from British soldiers and carried it to General Greene of the American Army? ===

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===<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 30. Who made up the Committee of 5 men who drafted the Declaration of Independence? ===

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===<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Fill in the blanks to complete this sentence from the Declaration of Independence : ===

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===<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created _, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are _ , _ and the pursuit of _. === <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">

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===<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 31. On what date was the Revolutionary War officially ended? (When did //**Congress**// declare an end to the war?) ===

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===<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 32. On what date did Washington deliver his inaugural address in New York City? ===

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===<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 34. What events happened on March 4, 1789, and March 4, 1793? (You will be taken to an Almanac on the CNN site that shows the year as 1998. Ignore the year, click on the specified date, and then click on the link for "On This Day" and you will see the events for that day in history.)  <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">  ===