Assignment #1

Sources: textbook

Questions:
1.Why was King George III the wrong monarch at the wrong time for England in regard to its North American colonial empire?
2.How did Prime Minister George Grenville change British policy toward her colonies in North America?
3.What are the differences between the concepts of virtual and actual representation?
4.What are "writs of assistance?" How did they lead to conflict over the Stamp Act in Massachusetts?
5.Who were the Sons of Liberty? the Daughters of Liberty? What were some of their resistance tactics?
6.Identify the Townsend Acts. What was their purpose?
7.What were the ideological and political arguments of the colonists against the Townsend Acts?
8.Why were the Townsend duties eventually repealed?

Terms:

King George III George Grenville actual representation virtual representation Real Whigs Sugar Act (1) (2) (1764) Currency Act (1764) James Otis, Jr. The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved Stamp Act (1) (2) (1765)

Patrick Henry Virginia Stamp Act Resolves Loyal Nine non-importation Governor Thomas Hutchinson Daniel Dulany Considerations on the Property of Imposing Taxes on the British Colonies

Sons of Liberty Gaspee Incident writs of assistance Samuel Adams Stamp Act Congress Declaration of Rights and Grievances Declaratory Act (1) (2) (1766) Townshend Acts (1) (2) (1767) John Dickinson Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania Daughters of Liberty

Assignment #2

Sources: textbook:

Questions:
1.How did the theory that the British were conspiring to oppress the colonists become especially important in relationship to the Tea Act, the Coercive Act, and the Quebec Act?
2.How were Lord North's policies different from/similar to those of his predecessors?
3.How did the Boston Massacre add to the growing tensions between the colonists and the British presence in North America?
4.What were the causes of the Boston Tea Party? What economic impact did it have on Boston?
5.Identify each of the Coercive [Intolerable] Acts and the purpose for each.
6.What were the major decisions made at the First Continental Congress? What was their significance?
7.What was the purpose of the Continental Association? Committees of Observation?

Terms:

Lord North Boston Massacre Crispus Attucks Committees of Correspondence Tea Act (1) (2) (1773) Boston Tea Party Coercive [Intolerable] Acts (1774)

Quebec Act (1) (2) (1774) First Continental Congress Declaration of Rights and Grievances Continental Association Committees of Observation

Assignment #3

Document: Patrick Henry- Give Me Liberty or Death
Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer
Loyalist Song Lyrics- The Rebels

Assignment #4

Sources: textbook:
document: Declaration of Independence [1776].
document: Excerpts from Thomas Paine's Common Sense [1776].
To Sign or Not to Sign - THE PAUSING AMERICAN LOYALIST Poem

Questions:
1.What were the reactions of the backcountry folk, Native Americans, African Americans, and loyalists to the threat of revolutionary war?
2.What factors limited the potential threat of Native Americans to the Revolution?
3.Which groups in colonial American society tended to side with the Patriots? Which groups tended to remain Loyalists? Who were the fence-sitters in the middle? Why?
4.What was the dilemma for the slaves at the beginning of the Revolutionary War?
5.What were the circumstances that led to the Battles of Lexington and Concord? Why were these battles called the "shots heard round the world?"
6.What was the British strategy at the beginning of the war?
7.How was the Second Continental Congress divided?
8.Why was General George Washington selected to lead the Continental Army?
9.What were the major arguments presented by Thomas Paine in Common Sense?
10.What were the philosophical points presented in the Declaration of Independence?

Terms:

Patriots [Rebels] Loyalists Minute Men Battles of Lexington & Concord Battle of Bunker Hill Fort Ticonderoga Second Continental Congress

Thomas Paine Common Sense Richard Henry Lee Declaration of Independence (1) (2) (3) Olive Branch Petition

Assignment #5

Sources: textbook:

Questions:
1.Identify the advantages and disadvantages of both the Patriots and the British on the eve of the Revolutionary War.
2.Why was 1777 referred to as the "year of the hangman?"
3.Why did the Americans win the Battle of Saratoga?
4.What was France's motives in signing the Franco-American Alliance of 1778?
5.What were the characteristics of the Continental Army? of its officer corps? What were the main problems Washington faced in
training the Continental Army?
6.How did women aid the Patriot cause on the home front?
7.Why did the British launch a campaign against the southern colonies in 1778?
8.How was the campaign in the South conducted by both sides?
9.Why did the British "Southern Strategy" backfire?
10.What was the significance of the Yorktown victory for the colonists? for the British?
11.Identify the major provisions of the 1783 Treaty of Paris.
12.What was Spain's role in the American Revolution?
13.How did the Treaty of 1783 create a strain in relationships among Spain, France, England, and America?
14.Why did the Patriots win the American Revolution? Why did the British lose?

Terms:

The Crisis [1780] Continental Army Kazimierz Pulaski Baron von Steuben Battle of Trenton Hessians Valley Forge, PA "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne (ptg) Iroquois Confederacy

Franco-American Alliance of 1778 Battle of Saratoga Benedict Arnold (1) (2) West Point treachery Nathaniel Greene General Cornwallis (pic) Battle of Yorktown Peace of Paris, 1783 (1) (2) (3)

Assignment #6

Sources: textbook:
document: Articles of Confederation.

Questions:
1.Identify the three strands of republicanism that emerged after the American Revolution. What were the characteristics of each?
2.What was the impact of revolutionary ideology on literature and the fine arts in America?
3.How did the idea of a "virtuous" republic influence the movement for early educational reform? What form did it take?
4.What was the role of women in this new republic?
5.How did the growing numbers of free African Americans react to life in a racist society?
6.What were some of the racial theories that were prevalent in America in the late 18c?
7.What were the general characteristics of most state constitutions as they evolved during the Revolution? Where did they place political power?
8.Describe the basic characteristics of the government created in the Articles of Confederation. Where was the center of power? Why?
9.What problems faced the Confederate Congress as it tried to govern during and immediately after the American Revolution?
10.How were the state constitutions more "democratic" than the federal political infrastructure established under the Articles of Confederation?

Terms:

"Virtuous Republic" republicanism Judith Sargent Murray Abigail Adams

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