RESEARCH PROJECT QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 2
GROUP #1
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Student will explain the significance of the Magna Carta in helping designing American Government.
Student will explain the significance of the ‘English Bill of Rights’ in helping designing American Government.
GROUP #2
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Taxation without Representation
Students will describe how Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, and Sons of Liberty felt about improper taxes.
GROUP #8
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Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Act, and Intolerable Acts
Student will describe the major ideas that lead to the American Revolution.
Students will describe the relationship between the colonist and Great Britain because of these events.
GROUP #7
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Great Awakening
Student will describe the political ideas of the Great Awakening affected the colonies.
Student will describe the effect of the Great Awakening on leading to the American Revolution.
GROUP #6
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New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies
Students will “compare and contrast” the agricultural (farming) and economical (trade) for each area.
GROUP #5
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French and Indian War and Proclamation of 1763
Students explain the “causes” and “effects of each topic.
GROUP #4
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Mayflower Compact
Why did the Pilgrims and Puritans leave Europe for the Americas?
Student will explain the significance of the ‘Mayflower Compact’ in helping designing American Government.
GROUP #3
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Magna Carta and “English Bill of Rights”
Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party
Student will describe the major events that lead to the American Revolution.
Students will describe the relationship between the colonist and Great Britain because of these events.
RESEARCH PROJECT QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 3
GROUP #9
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Students explain the “purpose” and “outcome” of the event.
GROUP #10
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Battle of Trenton and Battle of Saratoga
Student will explain ‘importance” of each battle for the colonies.
GROUP #17
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Marquis de Lafayette
Student will explain how the American Revolution inspired France to rebel?
Student will explain what ‘ideas’ from the American Revolution inspired other countries.
GROUP # 16
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Winter at Valley Forge
Student will explain the “challenges” the Continental Army faced.
Student will explain how “George Washington” kept his army together.
GROUP #15
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Declaration of Independence-
Student will describe how the Declaration of Independence promotes individual rights?
Student will explain the quote “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights.”
GROUP #14
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Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
Student will explain Thomas Paine’s ‘Common Sense’s’ ideas supporting the American Revolution.
Student will explain how the book “inspired” colonist to rebel.
GROUP #13
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Second Continental Congress
Students explain the “purpose” and “outcome” of the event.
GROUP #12
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Shot Heard ‘round the World
Students will explain the importance of the Battles at Lexington and Concord.
GROUP #11
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First Continental Congress
Treaty of Paris 1783
Student will explain the “end results” of the between the Colonies and Great Britian.