start
Do you accept the challenge?
Game Purpose: Get ready to escape to independence! This is a digital escape room focusing on the causes of the Revolutionary War. Take a trip back to the Revolutionary Era to complete four tasks to join the Continental Congress. As seventh grade historians, you will work with your group to complete this mission and help the colonists gain freedom from Britain. Objective: It is 1773 and you are a merchant in colonial America. Tension is rising between the patriots and loyalists. As a patriot yourself, you will navigate with your team to discover the events that sparked the Revolutionary War. Your goal is to gather information to complete tasks focusing on the causes of the Revolutionary War. In the end, your team will receive an invitation to the Continental Congress.
Task 1: Stamp Act: Complete multiple choice questions based on the Stamp Act. Read the information and choose your answer. Task 2: Boston Massacre Watch short videos based on the Boston Massacre and answer questions. Task 3: Boston Tea Party View images and answer questions on the Boston Tea Party. Task 4: Continental Congress: Answer a variety of questions focusing on the Continental Congress.
Special Task Information!
Do you accept the challenge?
How-to Win!
Once you complete all four tasks by gathering information and analyzing sources, you will find yourself working with the Founding Fathers ready to declare independence! This escape room is an interactive game created to allow students to understand pre-Revolutionary War America and develop skills to collaborate, engage and interact with the materials and their peers.
Tasks
Complete each task to beat the game: there is no other way to escape!
Task 1
Task 2
Task 3
Final Task
Task 1
1/3
The Stamp Act:
In colonial America, paper was extremely important. The colonists used paper for a variety of things: receipts to document the sale of goods, books, graduation diplomas, newspapers, playing cards, and many other items.
In the 1760s, Britain as a country faced massive debt. The Parliament looked to taxation of the colonies as a way to fix that debt. Passed in 1765, the Stamp Act required any paper used in the colonies to come directly from England and carry an official embossed seal from the British government. This meant colonists could not make their own paper or buy paper from other less expensive sources.
What led to the British enforcing the Stamp Act?
Britain had a massive debt.
Th British disliked the colonists.
Task 1
2/3
You're doing great.
The Stamp Act created great resistance and ill feelings among the colonists. They staged elaborate and sometimes violent protests, and there was a general increase in hostility toward the British. In fact, these feelings of hostility helped bond the colonists together and gave them a common cause to fight for. Colonists had no representation in the government.How did colonists feel about the Stamp Act?
Colonists were excited to contribute to the war debt.
Colonists were upset with the Stamp Act becasue they had no representation.
Colonists did not want representation in the government because it would be more work.
Task 1
3/3
You're almost there.
Benjamin Franklin, who was in England at the time the Stamp Act was passed, was shocked at the response. When word spread that he had initiated the act, he showed the colonists that this wasn’t true by assembling a strong campaign to have it repealed. United, and led by Franklin, the colonists succeeded; the Stamp Act was repealed, revoked or taken away, in 1766. Many historians believe the passage of the Stamp Act was an important step toward the American Revolution, just a decade later.What does repealed mean?
Provoked
Allowed
Passed
Revoked
Tasks
Complete each task to beat the game: there is no other way to escape!
Task 2
Task 1
Task 3
Final Task
1/3
Task 2
Watch this video:What was the first instance of force prior to the Revolutionary War?
Lexington and Concord
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
2/3
Task 2
Now play this video and answer:What was the outcome of the verdict for the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre?
Not guilty
Guilty
3/3
Task 2
Last video of the test:Who had an important role in the trial of the British soldiers?
Crispus Attucks
George Washington
John Adams
Tasks
Complete each task to beat the game: there is no other way to escape!
Task 1
Task 2
Task 3
Final Task
1/3
Task 3
h"The Boston Tea Party," December 16, 1773. The only tax left was that on tea, and despite attempts at reconciliation with the colonies, Lord North decided to use that tax to help the East India Company recover from economic hardships resulting in part from the North American boycotts. The Tea Act of 1773 gave the company the right to ship tea directly to North America from India, where it would collect the very small tax. American leaders, however, still objected to British taxation, and the issue came to a head in Boston, where the Sons of Liberty , organized by Sam Adams, refused to allow the first tea ship to be unloaded. After a mass meeting, several dozen men dressed as Indians went to the docks, boarded the tea ships, and dumped more than 300 chests of tea worth £10,000 into the harbor.The Stamp Act casued the Boston Tea Party.
True
False
Task 3
2/3
Geography test:Boston, MA is located where the indicator is.
False
True
Task 3
3/3
You are about to get it:Which of the following is an image representing the Boston Tea Party?
Tasks
Complete each task to beat the game: there is no other way to escape!
Task 1
Task 2
Task 3
Final Task
1/3
Task 4
You almost received the invite to the First Continental Congress!
The First Continental Congress, held in Philadelphia in the fall of 1774, was a meeting of political leaders in the colonies. It was held in response to the colonists anger at British policies, especially the Intolerable Acts. Representatives from all 13 colonies except Georgia attended the First Continental Congress. Why do you think it was important for respresentatives to attend this first meeting?
To discuss their hatred for the French
To discuss the future of the 13 colonies
To discuss their plan for the end of the Revolutionary War
2/3
Task 4
The Congress adopted a declaration of individual rights. Many of these rights would later be written into the nations founding documents. The declaration stated the colonists opposition to British policies. These included taxation without representation and the policy of keeping British troops in the colonies without colonists consent. The Congress also petitioned King George III with a list of complaints.
Drag and sort correctly in the order the events occured.
A - Boston Massacre
B - Boston Tea Party
C - First Continental Congress
D - Stamp Act
E - Tea Act
continuE
SOLUTION
3/3
Task 4
As a colonist, what is the one topic you would like to dicsuss most?
Independence
No taxation without representation
Go to War
Completed
Congratulations! You are off to the First Contenintal Congress!
Start over?
Oh oh!
That answer is not correct...
But don't give up, continue on your way and try again!
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1 - D
2- A
3 - E
4 - B
5 - C
Causes of the Revolutionary War Escape Room
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Transcript
start
Do you accept the challenge?
Game Purpose: Get ready to escape to independence! This is a digital escape room focusing on the causes of the Revolutionary War. Take a trip back to the Revolutionary Era to complete four tasks to join the Continental Congress. As seventh grade historians, you will work with your group to complete this mission and help the colonists gain freedom from Britain. Objective: It is 1773 and you are a merchant in colonial America. Tension is rising between the patriots and loyalists. As a patriot yourself, you will navigate with your team to discover the events that sparked the Revolutionary War. Your goal is to gather information to complete tasks focusing on the causes of the Revolutionary War. In the end, your team will receive an invitation to the Continental Congress.
Task 1: Stamp Act: Complete multiple choice questions based on the Stamp Act. Read the information and choose your answer. Task 2: Boston Massacre Watch short videos based on the Boston Massacre and answer questions. Task 3: Boston Tea Party View images and answer questions on the Boston Tea Party. Task 4: Continental Congress: Answer a variety of questions focusing on the Continental Congress.
Special Task Information!
Do you accept the challenge?
How-to Win!
Once you complete all four tasks by gathering information and analyzing sources, you will find yourself working with the Founding Fathers ready to declare independence! This escape room is an interactive game created to allow students to understand pre-Revolutionary War America and develop skills to collaborate, engage and interact with the materials and their peers.
Tasks
Complete each task to beat the game: there is no other way to escape!
Task 1
Task 2
Task 3
Final Task
Task 1
1/3
The Stamp Act:
In colonial America, paper was extremely important. The colonists used paper for a variety of things: receipts to document the sale of goods, books, graduation diplomas, newspapers, playing cards, and many other items. In the 1760s, Britain as a country faced massive debt. The Parliament looked to taxation of the colonies as a way to fix that debt. Passed in 1765, the Stamp Act required any paper used in the colonies to come directly from England and carry an official embossed seal from the British government. This meant colonists could not make their own paper or buy paper from other less expensive sources.
What led to the British enforcing the Stamp Act?
Britain had a massive debt.
Th British disliked the colonists.
Task 1
2/3
You're doing great.
The Stamp Act created great resistance and ill feelings among the colonists. They staged elaborate and sometimes violent protests, and there was a general increase in hostility toward the British. In fact, these feelings of hostility helped bond the colonists together and gave them a common cause to fight for. Colonists had no representation in the government.How did colonists feel about the Stamp Act?
Colonists were excited to contribute to the war debt.
Colonists were upset with the Stamp Act becasue they had no representation.
Colonists did not want representation in the government because it would be more work.
Task 1
3/3
You're almost there.
Benjamin Franklin, who was in England at the time the Stamp Act was passed, was shocked at the response. When word spread that he had initiated the act, he showed the colonists that this wasn’t true by assembling a strong campaign to have it repealed. United, and led by Franklin, the colonists succeeded; the Stamp Act was repealed, revoked or taken away, in 1766. Many historians believe the passage of the Stamp Act was an important step toward the American Revolution, just a decade later.What does repealed mean?
Provoked
Allowed
Passed
Revoked
Tasks
Complete each task to beat the game: there is no other way to escape!
Task 2
Task 1
Task 3
Final Task
1/3
Task 2
Watch this video:What was the first instance of force prior to the Revolutionary War?
Lexington and Concord
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
2/3
Task 2
Now play this video and answer:What was the outcome of the verdict for the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre?
Not guilty
Guilty
3/3
Task 2
Last video of the test:Who had an important role in the trial of the British soldiers?
Crispus Attucks
George Washington
John Adams
Tasks
Complete each task to beat the game: there is no other way to escape!
Task 1
Task 2
Task 3
Final Task
1/3
Task 3
h"The Boston Tea Party," December 16, 1773. The only tax left was that on tea, and despite attempts at reconciliation with the colonies, Lord North decided to use that tax to help the East India Company recover from economic hardships resulting in part from the North American boycotts. The Tea Act of 1773 gave the company the right to ship tea directly to North America from India, where it would collect the very small tax. American leaders, however, still objected to British taxation, and the issue came to a head in Boston, where the Sons of Liberty , organized by Sam Adams, refused to allow the first tea ship to be unloaded. After a mass meeting, several dozen men dressed as Indians went to the docks, boarded the tea ships, and dumped more than 300 chests of tea worth £10,000 into the harbor.The Stamp Act casued the Boston Tea Party.
True
False
Task 3
2/3
Geography test:Boston, MA is located where the indicator is.
False
True
Task 3
3/3
You are about to get it:Which of the following is an image representing the Boston Tea Party?
Tasks
Complete each task to beat the game: there is no other way to escape!
Task 1
Task 2
Task 3
Final Task
1/3
Task 4
You almost received the invite to the First Continental Congress!
The First Continental Congress, held in Philadelphia in the fall of 1774, was a meeting of political leaders in the colonies. It was held in response to the colonists anger at British policies, especially the Intolerable Acts. Representatives from all 13 colonies except Georgia attended the First Continental Congress. Why do you think it was important for respresentatives to attend this first meeting?
To discuss their hatred for the French
To discuss the future of the 13 colonies
To discuss their plan for the end of the Revolutionary War
2/3
Task 4
The Congress adopted a declaration of individual rights. Many of these rights would later be written into the nations founding documents. The declaration stated the colonists opposition to British policies. These included taxation without representation and the policy of keeping British troops in the colonies without colonists consent. The Congress also petitioned King George III with a list of complaints.
Drag and sort correctly in the order the events occured.
A - Boston Massacre
B - Boston Tea Party
C - First Continental Congress
D - Stamp Act
E - Tea Act
continuE
SOLUTION
3/3
Task 4
As a colonist, what is the one topic you would like to dicsuss most?
Independence
No taxation without representation
Go to War
Completed
Congratulations! You are off to the First Contenintal Congress!
Start over?
Oh oh!
That answer is not correct...
But don't give up, continue on your way and try again!
back
1 - D
2- A
3 - E
4 - B
5 - C