Directions: Know the answer to these questions by the time that we cover the information in class. You will be graded on how intelligently you can relate information to the class when called upon.
 

Chapter 4
Read pages 100-105
What were the causes and results of Anglo-French conflicts between 1686 and 1763?  What role did the American colonies play in these?

Read pages 105-113
What initial policy changes and the motives behind them occurred when George III ascended the throne. How were these changes reflected in the sugar and 
stamp acts.

Read pages 113-119
Why did the British pass the Townsend Duties and the Coercive Acts? What actions did the colonists think the laws showed about British intentions?

Read pages 119-122, 126-131
What were the major decisions made by the 1st and 2nd Continental Congresses and what were the reasons for those decisions? 

Chapter 5

Read  pages 131-140
What were the advantages and disadvantages for the British? For the Colonists? Why was George Washington selected as the best person to make the most of the colonies advantages?

What was the importance of the victory of Saratoga and how did it affect American diplomatic efforts?

Read pages 140-146
Discuss the social, political, and economic changes within the 13 states produced by the American Revolution. Be sure to consider topics such as slavery, status of women, American Indians, property distribution, voting rights and religion
 

Read pages 149-155,160-161
Examine the relative successes and failures of the Articles of Confederation. Was this government capable of providing the stability that the new nation needed?  Why or Why not?

Who were the advocates of centralization, and why did they want to alter or abolish the Articles of Confederation?
 
 
 
 

Chart for Chapter 4

Directions: Fill in the chart if an injustice occurs (from a colonial point of view). HINT:Not all acts had injustices.

	Economic Injustice	Political injustice	Infringements on Human Rights
Writs of Assistance
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Quartering Act
Townshend Revenue Act
Tea Act
Coercive Acts

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FACTS, figures, people, and places.   Be prepared to identify, define, describe, and explain the significance of the people, places, and events listed below.

1. King George's War
2. Albany Plan of Union
3. Acadians, Cajuns
4. Seven Year's War (French and Indian War)
5. Neolin, Pontiac's Uprising, and the Proclamation of 1763
6. Kind George III
7. Writs of assistance and James Otis
8. Sugar Act and vice-admiralty courts
9. George Grenville
10. Stamp Act an Stamp Act Congress
11. Virtual representation
12. Patrick Henry 
13. Loyal Nine and Sons of Liberty
14. Declaratory Act
15. Charles Townshend and the Townshend duties (Revenue Act of 1767)
16. John Wilkes
17. American Board of Customs Commissioners, customs racketeering
18. Samuel Adams
19. John Adams
20. Spinning bees
21. Lord North
22. John Hancock 
23. Crispus Attucks and the Boston Massacre
24. Committees of correspondence
25. Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party
26. Coercive or Intolerable Acts an Quebec Act
27. Suffolk Resolves and Continental Association
28. Minutemen, Paul Revere, and Lexington and Concord
29. Olive Branch Petition
30. Thomas Paine, Common Sense
31. Second Continental Congress and Declaration of Independence
32. Nova Scotia 
33. Louisbourg
34. Ohio River and Ohio Valley
35. Lake Champlain
36. Albany, New York
37. Fort Duquesne
38. Fort Necessity
39. Pittsburgh
40. Acadia
41. Quebec
42. Montreal
43. British North America under the terms of the Treaty of Paris, 1763
44. Detroit
45. Halifax, Nova Scotia
46. Fort Ticonderoga
47. Boston
48. Lexington, Massachusetts
49. Concord, Massachusetts

50. Henry Knox
51. Loyalists (Tories) versus patriots (Whigs)
52. Hessians
53. Marquis de Lafayette
54. General John Burgoyne, General Horatio Gates, and Saratoga
55. Frederick von Steuben
56. George Rogers Clark
57. Joseph Brant
58. Yorktown
59. John Adams, John Jay, Benjamin Frankllin, and the Peace of Paris
60. "natural aristocracy"
61. Benjamin Banneker
62. African Methodist Episcopal church
63. Abigail Adams
64. "republican motherhood"
65. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
66. John Dickinson and the Articles of Confederation
67. Ordinance of 1785 and Northwest Ordinance of 1787
68. Continentals
69. Shay's Rebellion
70. Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, and Connecticut Compromise
71. Checks and balances, functional separation of powers, and federalism
72. Federalists versus Antifederalists
73. John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and The Federalist papers
74. Fort Ticonderoga
75. Boston 
76. New York City
77. Long Island
78. Delaware River
79. Trenton, New Jersey
80. Princeton, New Jersey
81. Albany
82. Philadelphia
83. Saratoga, New York
84. Brandywine Creek and Germantown, Pennsylvania
85. Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
86. Monmouth, New Jersey
87. Appalachians
88. Jenuchshadago, Pennsylvania (on the Allegheny River)
89. Tennessee
90. Illinois
91. Vincennes, Indiana
92. Detroit, Michigan
93. Ohio River
94. Elmira, New York
95. Savannah, Georgia
96. Charles Town, South Carolina
97. Yorktown, Virginia
 

1. How did Britain's "neglect" of the colonies gradually lead to independence? 

2. Assess the validity of the following statement:  "1763 is the most significant year in the history of the colonies before the Revolutionary War." 
 

3. In many revolutions, violence precedes a change of government.  In American history, the ten years between 1765 and 1775 provided the colonists a long period to think through what they were going to do before resorting to armed revolt. Discuss some of the changes in colonial thinking during this ten-year period. 

4. To what extent is the American government a product of the Enlightenment. 

5. How and in what ways was the American Revolution revolutionary? 
6. What did the founders mean by "republic"? What were the weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation?  What were the strengths? 

7. Evaluate the following statement:  "The Articles of Confederation amply served the desires of most Americans at the time.  It was the economic elite who 'hijacked' America's political evolution and turned it into another course by replacing the Articles with the Constitution." 

8. To what extent was fear of "too much democracy" a motive for writing the U. S. Constitution?