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Map Activity 1.1 – European Settlement Map Activity
Directions: Use your notes, textbook, and other sources to indicate where major French, Spanish, and
English colonies developed (Map A). On Map B, carefully color and label Massachusetts, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas. Also show what major economic developments occurred in each
region of the North American Colonies as well as the types of religious societies that developed (mark
areas that were religiously tolerant and those that were not). Be sure to create a key to help the reader
identify important information on the map.
Map A
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Graphic Organizer 1.1b – North American Colonies
Directions: Use your notes and other sources to complete the chart.
New England Colonies
Political
Religious
Political
Religious
Social
Economic
Social
Economic
Middle Colonies
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Southern Colonies
Political
Religious
Social
Economic
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Graphic Organizer 1.2a– American Foundations
Directions: Use your notes and other sources to complete the chart.
What effect did the following ideas, people or documents have on U.S. government?
Rule of Law
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
John Locke
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Short Answer: Summarize the historical event and explain the significance of each.
House of Burgesses
Mayflower Compact
New England Town Meeting
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Timeline 1.2b – Origins of the American Revolution
1754
French and Indian War
Explain:
Significance:
1764
Navigation Acts are expanded
(Sugar Act)
Explain:
Significance:
Quartering Act
Explain:
Significance:
1765, March
Stamp Act
Explain:
Significance:
1765, August
Sons of Liberty formed
Explain:
Significance:
1765, October
Stamp Act Congress
Explain:
Significance:
1766, March
Declaratory Act
Explain:
Significance:
1767
Townsend Acts
Explain:
Significance:
1770
Boston Massacre
Explain:
Significance:
1773
Tea Act and Boston Tea Party
Explain:
Significance:
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1774
Coercive/Intolerable Acts
Explain:
Significance:
1774, September
First Continental Congress
Explain:
Significance:
1775, April
Battle of Lexington and
Concord
Explain:
Significance:
1775, May
Second Continental Congress
Explain:
Significance:
1776, July 4
Declaration of Independence
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Graphic Organizer 1.2c – Steps to the Revolution
Directions: Look at the list and place event in the proper column. Then answer the question at the
bottom.
writs of assistance
Stamp Act
Boston Massacre
Intolerable Acts
Second Continental Congress
Declaration of Independence
British Taxation
Proclamation of 1763
Declaratory Act
Boston Tea Party
First Continental Congress
Common Sense
Quartering Act
Townsend Acts
Coercive Acts
Lexington & Concord
British usurpation of power
Colonial Response
Essay Question: Infer from the information above the reason the colonists came to the point of rebellion.
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Graphic Organizer 1.3 – The Declaration of Independence
Directions: Use your notes and the book to complete the following.
1. What is the main point of the opening paragraph?
Examples:
2. How does the second paragraph justify the first?
5 Examples:
3. How does Jefferson say that England has abused her powers over the colonies?
10 Examples:
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3. What is the point of the final part of the Declaration?
Give three direct quotes:
4. List three world events inspired by the Declaration!
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Graphic Organizer 1.4a– Articles of Confederation
Directions: Use your notes and other sources to complete the chart.
Why the Articles succeeded
Why the Articles failed
Constitutional Convention
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Graphic Organizer 1.4b – Plans and Compromises of the Constitutional Convention
Directions: Use your notes and other sources to complete the chart.
Problem: Large States and Small States
Virginia Plan
1.
New Jersey Plan
1.
2.
3.
2.
4.
The Compromise
1. Name_________________________
2. What problems did it solve?
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Problem: Slave Holding States vs. Non-Slave Holding States
The Compromise
The Compromise
Problems between Federalists and Anti-Federalists
The Compromise
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Graphic Organizer 1.5– Principles of the Constitution
Directions: Use your notes and other sources to complete the chart.
Principle
Definition
Example
Federalism
separation of powers
limited government
checks and balances
Rights Granted
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
Constitution
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Directions: Place an “x” in the box that relates to each.
Characteristic
Constitution
Articles of
Confederation
three branches of government
Judicial Branch
weak central government
separation of powers
checks and balances
created Northwest Territories
limited government
Executive Branch
strong central government
Legislative Branch
President
Bill of Rights
Directions: Fill in the blank with the principle that matches the quote.
Principles: Sovereignty, federalism, separation of powers, and checks & balances
“ This Constitution…shall be the Supreme law of the land”
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are reserved tot the States respectively, or the
people.”
“The Executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of
America”
“Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the
Senate, shall before it become law, be presented to the President of the United
States; If approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it …”
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Graphic Organizer 1.6a– Hamilton versus Jefferson
protective tariff
national capitol
National Bank
paying off the debt
Issue
Hamilton’s Plan of Action
Directions: Using your notes and other sources, complete the chart below.
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Jefferson’s Opposition
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Graphic Organizer 1.6b– Emerging Political Parties
Directions: Complete the chart below by deciding whether the term is most closely related to Federalist or
Anti-Federalist (place an “X” in the proper box).
Event
Federalist
Anti-Federalist
or Democratic-Republican
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Strict interpretation
Loose interpretation
Necessary and proper Clause
Favored a high tariff
Favored a strong central government
Wanted power in the hands of the people
wanted power in the hands of wealthy and well
educated
Defended states rights
Thought the nations economy should be based on
agriculture
Thought the nations economy should be based on
shipping and commerce, rather than agriculture
Wrote the Federalist Papers
Supported the Whiskey Rebellion
Naturalization Act
Alien Act
Sedition Act
Virginia and Kentucky resolutions
Doctrine of Nullification
2. Which person and which party would most likely have made the following quote?
A. "I am for preserving to the States the powers not yielded by them to the Union, and to the
legislature of the Union its constitutional share in the division of powers; and I am not for
transferring all the powers of the States to the General Government, and all those of that
government to the executive branch."
B. “For the government to function it must have the ability to do whatever is necessary and proper
whether or not that action is directly stated in the Constitution.”
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Graphic Organizer 1.7 – Marbury v Madison
Directions: Use your notes and other sources to complete the chart.
1. What was the Judiciary Act of 1789 and what did it create?
2. What is precedence?
1. What did President Adams do before he left
office?
3. What did John Marshal and the court rule?
2. What did Jefferson do that
caused problems?
4. What is historically significant
about this case?
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