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Textbook
1. What were some of the changes made in British
taxation of the American colonies after the
French and Indian War?
2. What were the provisions of the Stamp Act?
Why was this law distinctive from the other
laws passed during the Grenville
administration?
3. Describe the legal, financial, and social factors
connected to the American resistance to the
Stamp Act?
4. How did the issuance of writs of assistance
contribute to the constitutional conflict over the
Stamp Act in Massachusetts?
5. Why did Americans resist the trade tax imposed
on them by the Townsend Acts even though it
was an external tax?
6. Explain the meaning of the "propaganda" and
use the Boston Massacre as an example of the
employment of propaganda by patriots in
Boston.
7. What were the causes of the Boston Tea Party?
8. What did King George set out to achieve when
he disciplined Massachusetts?
9. What were the major issues addressed by the
First Continental Congress?
10. Why were the opening shots fired by the
Minutemen at Lexington and Concord referred
to as the shots heard 'round the world?
* Stamp Act (1765)
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Samuel Adams
Sons of Liberty
Patrick Henry
Declaratory Act (1766)
Townsend Acts (1767)
* Committees of
Correspondence
* Tea Act (1773)
* Boston Tea Party
* Intolerable Acts (1774)
* quartering of troops
* martial law
* spinning bees
* Crispus Attucks
* Boston Massacre
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* First Continental
Congress
* Minutemen
* "shot heard 'round the
world"
Textbook --> pp. 99 - 103.
Declaration of Independence
1. Identify the various political factions present at
the Second Continental Congress.
2. What was the significance of the Battle of
Bunker/Breed's Hill?
3. What was the Olive Branch petition and what
was King George III's response to it?
4. Describe the role of Thomas Paine in the
American Revolution and explain the impact of
his pamphlet, Common Sense, on the American
movement toward independence.
5. What reasons did Thomas Jefferson give to
justify revolt by the colonies?
6. Explain the connection between John Locke's
contract theory of government and Thomas
Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.
7. Why do you think that when Jefferson borrowed
Locke's ideas, he changed the rights of man
from life, liberty, and property to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness?
8. Which groups in colonial America tended to be
Loyalists and which tended to be Patriots?
9. How did the Loyalists thinking differ from that
of the Patriots?
10. On whose side did the following groups fight
and why -- African slaves, Quakers, Native
Americans?
* Second Continental
Congress
* General Thomas Gage
* Bunker/Breed's Hill
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Olive Branch Petition
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
John Locke
* social contract theory
* Thomas Jefferson
* Declaration of
Independence
* unalienable rights
* Patriots
* Loyalists
* These are the times
that try
men's souls.
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Textbook --> pp. 107 - 111.
1. Explain the challenges faced by George
Washington in transforming the Continental
Army of the professional military troops.
2. What were the key strengths and weaknesses
of the British and American armies at the
beginning of the Revolution?
3. Why were the victories at Trenton and
Princeton so important to the Continental
Army?
4. Why was the Battle of Saratoga considered a
"turning point" in the Revolutionary War?
5. What were France's motives for entering into
the Franco-American alliance in 1778?
6. How did the Franco-American alliance turn the
American Revolution into a world war?
7. What were the conditions endured by
Washington and the Continental Army during
the winter at Valley Forge?
8. What economic problems did the Americans
face in financing the Revolutionary War?
9. Describe the role of women in the military and
in civilian life during the American Revolution.
10. If you were a woman civilian during the
beginning of the American Revolution, what
problem caused by the war, do you think, would
affect you the most?
11. What role did African-Americans and Native
Americans play in the American Revolution?
* Battle of Trenton
* Battle of Princeton
* Hessians
* "Gentleman Johnny"
Burgoyne
* Fort Ticonderoga
* Ethan Allen
* Green Mountain Boys
* General Horatio Gates
* Battle of Saratoga
* Valley Forge, PA
* not worth a
Continental!
* profiteering
* Margaret Corbin
* Mary Ludwig Hays
["Molly
Pitcher"]
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Textbook --> pp. 112 - 117.
1. What role did Baron von Steuben and the
Marquis de Lafayette play in the American
Revolution?
2. Why has Benedict Arnold become infamous in
American history?
3. Why did the French help the Americans in the
last years of the Revolutionary War?
4. What was the British strategy in the South?
5. Why did it ultimately backfire?
6. Identify the French, British, and Spanish
agendas at the Paris Peace Conference in 1782.
7. What was the American negotiators agenda in
Paris?
8. What were the final provisions of the Treaty of
Paris, 1783?
9. What provisions of the Treaty promised to
create future troubles for the new nation?
10. What happened to the Loyalists who had
supported the British Crown during the
American Revolution?
11. Why did the belief in egalitarianism rise after
the American Revolution?
12. Discuss the position of slaves, women, and
Native Americans in the new American republic.
13. What were the major political, economic, and
social challenges facing the new nation?
* Friedrich von Steuben
* Marquis de Lafayette
* General Charles
Cornwallis
* General Nathanael
Greene
* Battle of Yorktown
* Benedict Arnold
* Treaty of Paris (1783)
* egalitarianism
* Novus Ordo Seclorum