AP US History
Essential Questions-8
AP US History
Essential Questions-8
Essential Questions
1. Account for the widespread and enthusiastic colonial reception of Thomas
Paine’s Common Sense.
2. Explain why Kennedy concludes that the France-American alliance was
“not prompted by a love for America but by a realistic concern for the
interests of France.” In what ways did the French contribute to colonial
independence?
3. It is often argued that the English lost the Revolutionary War more than
the Americans won it. Do you agree? Why?
The combat of the Revolutionary war Began in spring 1775. Why did
colonist wait until the summer of 1776 to declare independence?
4. To what extent had the colonists developed a sense of their identity and
unity as Americans by the eve of the Revolution?
5. Analyze the political, diplomatic, and military reasons for the United
States victory in the Revolutionary War. Confine your answer to the
period 1775-1783.
6. Choose TWO of the following and analyze their impact on colonial North
American development between 1620 and 1776
a. Puritanism
b. The Enlightenment
c. The First Great Awakening
AP US History
Essential Questions-8
ID’s
1. Second Continental Congress May 10, 1775
2. Ethan Allen
3. Benedict Arnold
4. Bunker Hill
5. Olive Branch Petition
6. Common Sense—Thomas Paine
7. Thomas Jefferson
8. Declaration of Independence
9. Tories
10. Battle of Long Island
11. Battle of Trenton
12. Gen. Burgoyne
13. Gen. Howe
14. Brandywine/Germantown
15. Saratoga
16. Benedict Arnold
17. King’s Mountain/Cowpens
18. Yorktown
19. Gen. Cornwallis
20. Admiral de Grasse
21. Treaty of Paris 1783
22. John Adams
23. John Jay