| While doing a bit of research for today's Trivia Tuesday, which will be focused on the period around the birth of our country, I ran across a book entitled "The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America".
Within this book the author looks beyond the players well known to most of us and instead focuses on the social and economic issues that radicalized many of the colonists and led them on the path to revolution.
Though the Founding Fathers have been celebrated for signing the Declaration of Independence and thus laying their lives on the line, as this book points out, there were many other players who deserve recognition for the brave steps they took leading up to acts taken that hot Philadelphia summer of 1776. I highly recommend it as a read to see a broader picture of the people and movements that shaped our movement to independence.
And with that, let's begin our questions for today. As always, no using the internet to find your answers and you can pose your own questions below.
Good luck!
#1 - A mid 17th-century British political group, (who were committed broadly to, among other issues, the abolition of corruption within the Parliamentary and judicial process, toleration of religious differences, and some kind of expansion of the suffrage) influenced some pre-Revolutionary activists. What was the name of this British group? Now this may seem like a very obscure reference, but here's a big hint, a fellow SquareStater has the same name.
#2 - What was the name of the group that Ethan Allen led?
#3 - Who said this quote: "The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American". Hint, - it's not Jefferson or Washington.
#4 - An influential religious movement began in America just prior to the Revolution. This movement (as defined by the author referenced above) viewed God not operating "through the elite corps of learned clergy and their aristocratic allies. Rather, God worked through the inner light given to every man and woman regardless of their station in life, with lack of education or even slave status posing no barrier to achieving grace through the conversion experience." What was the name of this religious movement?
#5 - Within five either way, how many grievances were there in the Declaration of Independence?
#6 - Which treaty, signed on September 3, 1782 and ratified on April 17, 1783, officially ended the revolution? |
