Unit 1 – Part IV: the Birth of a New Nation
12. Identify the Cause and effects of each event leading up to the Revolutionary War
The French and Indian War
(1754-1763)
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Albany Plan of Union (1754)
The Navigation Acts
Proclamation of 1763
British Victory
Stamp Act (1765)
Stamp Act Congress (1765)
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“No taxation without
representation”
Townshend
Boycott Acts
(1766)
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Declaratory Act (1767)
Writs of Assistance -
The Boston Massacre (1770)
The Tea Act (1773)
The Coercive Acts / The
Intolerable Acts (1774)
The Boston Tea Party (1773)
The First Continental Congress
(1774)
Battles of Lexington and Concord
(April 1775)
“The Shot heard round the world!”
The Declaration of Independence
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The Second Continental Congress
(1775)
13. Who wrote Common Sense and what was its purpose?
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14. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
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15. What are the two purposes of the Declaration of Independence as stated in its preamble?
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“….it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with
another…..” __________________________________________________________________
 “….a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them
to the separation.” __________________________________________________________________
16. From the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence identify how it was influenced by the philosophy of
John Locke.
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17. Identify how John Locke’s concept of a social contract is illustrated in the Declaration of Independence.
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