GUIDED READING CHAPTER 5: THE STRUGGLE FOR …

1 Name: Date:5 1 GUIDED READINGCHAPTER 5: THE STRUGGLE FOR independence ( page 1 )Section 1 The Road to IndependenceDirections: Use the information from pages 157-162 to complete the following statements. 1. The _____ in London began to change the way the thirteen American _____ were to be governed. 2. No taxation without _____ became the slogan used to protest against this unfairness. 3. Over the course of twelve years from _____ to _____ these protests led to greater arguments and, ultimately, violence. 4. King _____III issued the Proclamation of 1763, which forbade settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. 5. The Stamp Act required all _____ to have records stamped with an offi cial seal.

2 6. When the North Carolina Assembly protested the Stamp Act, Governor _____ sent the representatives home. 7. Violence broke out in _____ in 1770, the same year Regulators rioted in _____. 8. When the British closed the _____ of Boston, other colonies joined together to boycott British goods. 9. Under the leadership of _____ _____, North Carolina women promised they would drink no more British tea or use other imported Shots fi red in _____ led to a battle at Concord that started the American War for READING Name: Date:5 2 GUIDED READINGCHAPTER 5: THE STRUGGLE FOR independence (Page 2)Section 2 North Carolina in the War for IndependenceDirections: Use the information from pages 163-171 to complete the following statements.

3 1. When news of Lexington and Concord arrived in North Carolina, Governor _____ fl ed and Committees of _____ were set up in each county to keep order and provide government. 2. Most committees immediately demanded that men suspected of siding with the British, called _____, sign a loyalty oath. 3. Members of the committees called themselves _____. 4. The _____ Resolves said the king s commissions were null and void. 5. The _____ Congress set up defense measures, wrote up a loyalty oath for everyone to take, authorized the enlistment of soldiers, and issued _____ _____ to pay for everything. 6. North Carolina militiamen were sent into South Carolina and _____ to fi ght Tories. 7. The Battle of _____ _____ _____ was celebrated as an American victory in the southern colonies as the Battle of _____ _____ had been in Boston.

4 8. The British attempt to invade the province convinced many North Carolinians that their confl ict could not be settled _____. 9. The North Carolina Provincial Congress passed the _____ Resolves on April 12, North Carolina became the _____ of the thirteen colonies to endorse the independence ReadingName: Date:5 3 GUIDED READINGCHAPTER 5: THE STRUGGLE FOR independence (Page 3)11. Each of the thirteen new states wrote a state _____, a set of rules and procedures for Writers of North Carolina s constitution agreed that the _____ should be the primary agent of North Carolinians included a Declaration of _____ in their In 1777, the state passed a _____ Act, which said that Tories could have their property taken By the end of the war, more than _____ North Carolinians had served in the Continental 3 The British Invade the CarolinasDirections.

5 Use the information from pages 172-176 to complete the following Charles Town, South Carolina, was surrendered to the British in May of The American defeat at _____ meant that South Carolina was in the control of the British and North Carolina was open to On June 20, 1780, more than _____ Tories were defeated at _____ _____, at the site of present-day Mecklenburg County had the reputation as a _____ _____ of the Overmountain Men crossed the Blue Ridge and defeated Tories at the Battle of _____ After the victory by the Overmountain Men, _____ and the British had to retreat back into South READING Name: Date:5 4 GUIDED READINGCHAPTER 5: THE STRUGGLE FOR independence (Page 4) 7.

6 At Cowpens, South Carolina, Daniel _____ gave the British one of their biggest defeats of the entire war. 8. At the Battle of _____ _____, Nathanael Greene led his troops against the British in a vicious battle that lasted one and one-half hours. 9. Cornwallis hoped for better luck in Virginia, but Washington trapped him in _____, and the war was effectively By the end of 1782, the last British left _____ and _____ _____, ending the war in the 4 North Carolinians Fight Each OtherDirections: Use the information from pages 177-181 to complete the following None of the original thirteen states was as divided in its _____ as North Whigs and _____ could be found from one end of North Carolina to the Many coastal residents sided with the Tories were often concentrated in the _____ area of the _____ was a belief that kept some people from fi ghting in the _____ and _____ were forced to pay triple taxes since they refused to fi ght in the The _____ Conspiracy was a Tory plot to capture the powder magazine in the town of _____ and use the guns to kidnap Governor Richard _____ control of the state was all but lost when Lord Cornwallis swept through the state in The most famous Tory was a man named David _____.

7 Who had been abused and beaten by Whigs and swore ReadingName: Date:5 5 GUIDED READINGCHAPTER 5: THE STRUGGLE FOR independence (Page 5)10. Events calmed down in the state when the British withdrew from _____ in Tories who had simply fought for the _____ in battle were generally allowed to return In 1784, the state legislature issued a _____ which forgave Tories for their actions in the At the end of the war, the state had no permanent In 1784, North Carolina was as _____ as it had been at the start of the READING 5 6 GUIDED READING ANSWERSS ection 1, The Road to independence 1. Parliament, colonies 2. representation 3. 1763, 1775 4. George 5. ships 6.

8 Tryon 7. Boston, Hillsborough 8. port 9. Penelope Barker10. LexingtonSection 2, North Carolina in the War for independence 1. Martin, Safety 2. Tories 3. Whigs 4. Mecklenburg 5. Provincial, paper money 6. Virginia 7. Moore s Creek Bridge, Bunker Hill 8. peacefully 9. Halifax10. fi rst11. constitution12. legislature13. Rights14. Confi scation15. 7,000 Section 3, The British Invade the Carolinas 1. 1780 2. Camden, invasion 3. 1,000, Ramsour s Mill 4. hornet s nest 5. Kings Mountain 6. Cornwallis 7. Morgan 8. Guilford Courthouse 9. Yorktown10. Wilmington, Charles TownGuided Reading5 7 Section 4, North Carolinians Fight Each Other 1. loyalties 2. Tories 3. Whigs 4. central 5. Pacifi sm 6. Moravians, Quakers 7.

9 Llewellyn, Halifax 8. Whig 9. Fanning, revenge10. Wilmington11. king, home12. pardon13. capital14. dividedGuided READING