SG #2
• Students will review
– Causes of the Revolutionary War
– 1) Describe 2 ways that the French/Indian War
changed the relationship between the Colonies and
England.
– 2) Identify, define 3 Acts by England that pushed
American colonists to seek independence.
– 3) Analyze why Americans started to distrust
England and provide two examples of American
protests against England.
1) Identify and define the two types of revolution.
– Anti-imperialist ( independence, self-determination)
– Social (democratization, new ideas)
• Was the American Revolution one or both?
2) What was the cause of the French/Indian War?
– Ohio Valley (Americans wanted to move west, Fr. was
in the way)
3) Identify the cause and importance of the Albany Congress?
– Cause- keep Iroquois Indians loyal to Colonies/Britain
– Albany Plan (self rule of colonies first talked about)
• Why is the Albany Conference so important to the
future independence of the US? Did the colonies see
themselves as Americans?
– 1st time colonies talked about uniting
4) Identify 2 results of the Fr/Ind. War. (Treaty of Paris)
– France out of N/Am. (Britain receives all Fr. Land east
of Miss. and Florida)
– Spain (all land west of Miss R.)
5) Identify three problems inherited by England after the
French/Indian War.
– New land needs to be governed
– Money needs to be raised to defend colonies from
Spain/Indians
– Pontiac’s Rebellion (Indians attack American settlers,
upset Fr. Lost)
• How will the British raise the needed money to run the
colonies? Why will Americans have such a hard time
with this plan?
– Property/money= Liberty (taxing is seen as a way
for Gov. to take away people’s freedom)
6) Define Salutary Neglect (and another name is?)
– Benign Neglect (colonies allowed to run and govern
themselves for 150 years (1607-1763)
7) Define mercantilism
– Colonies exist to make England rich (colonies can only
trade w. England)
• *America is England’s largest customer, Eng. Is
England’s largest buyer (both sides are making
money)
– How does mercantilism hold back the colonies?
8) What two events occurred in England in 1763 that changed the
relationship between the U.S and England?
– PM George Greenville- expected the colonies to support
England’s debt (meant more control of colonies by
England)
– Salutary Neglect was abandoned
9) Define Proclamation of 1763
–
Proclamation of 1763 (colonists could not move west of
imaginary line)
•
Why would Americans be so incensed by this law?
–
–
Americans fought a war to move into Ohio Valley
End of Benign Neglect (Eng. Telling colonists where they
can and can’t move to)
10) Briefly explain the causes and impact of Bacon’s Rebellion
–
Poor settlers (ex-Indentured Servants) wanted protection from
Indians (Gov. Berkeley refused)
•
Indentured Servants- traded passage to colonies in
exchange for 5 years of work (white slaves)
–
Impact-colonists felt Gov. favored the rich over poor
•
Creates a need for a less troublesome labor source
(slaves)
11) Briefly identify and explain the impact of the Stamp Act
–
Tax on all printed goods to help Eng. Pay back debt from
Fr/Ind. War
–
1st tax where $ went to England, not colonists
•
NO TAXATION W/OUT REPRESENTATION (What does
this mean?)
–
United colonists against England (boycotts)
12) Define the Declaratory Act
–
Replaced Stamp Act (stated Eng. Could make any law what
so ever)
13) Define the Townsend Act
–
Tax on finished goods (sales tax)
14) How did the colonists respond to acts by the British designed to
raise revenue and increase their power?
–
Boycotts (refusing to buy English goods)
•
How were boycotts meant to hurt Eng?
15) Briefly explain the cause and impact of the Boston Massacre.
–
Eng. Soldiers took second jobs for less pay than colonists in
Boston
–
Upset colonists and moved colonies towards independence
16) Why were Americans upset over the Tea Tax
–
Trick to get Americans to give up “No taxation w/out
representation”
17) What was England’s response to the BTP and identify two parts of
the act?
–
Intolerable Acts
•
Boston Port Bill- Closed Boston Harbor
•
Mass. Government Act- ended Mass charter (no self
government in MA)
•
Quartering Act- Eng. Troops could be housed in
colonists homes)
–
How do Americans start to view the English government?
18) Identify the Quebec Act and why it upset Americans.
–
Extended Quebec (catholic, no democracy) into Ohio Valley
–
Colonists fought a war to move to Ohio Valley (and could not move
west of Proclamation Line)
•
1st Continental Congress- 1st time all colonies meet
together (discuss how to support MA. And end the
Intolerable acts)
–
Why should other colonies care about a law that only effects
MA
19) Identify the three groups at the 1st Continental Congress and the goals of
each group.
–
Radicals (John Adams) want independence
–
Moderates (George Washington) repair relationship b/t Eng. And
Colonies
–
Conservatives (John Jay) return to benign neglect
20) Identify two actions the 1st CC decided to take in adopting the
“Declaration and Resolves.”
– Intolerable Acts need to end (open Boston Harbor)
– Militia- colonists arm themselves
– Boycott- of Br. Goods
• What are the Resolves (1st CC) not asking for?
– Independence (Americans are not ready to fight and
break away)