Download To Revolution Unit Study Guide

To Revolution Unit Study Guide
Chapters 6-7 pages 154-217
Core Vocabulary:
1. Militia
2. Boycott
3. Casualties
4. Stamp Act
5. Backcountry
6. Daughters Of Liberty
7. Pioneers
8. Tea Act
9. Sugar Act
10. Boston Tea Party
11. Albany Plan Of Union
12. Proclamation Of 1763
13. Committees Of Correspondence
14. Propaganda
15. Intolerable Acts
16. Patriots
17. Mercenaries
18. Guerrilla Warfare
19. Battle Of Yorktown
20. Battle Of Saratoga
21. Minutemen
22. Redcoats
23. Declaration Of Independence
24. Battle Of Bunker Hill
25. Loyalists
26. First Continental Congress
27. Olive Branch Petition
28. Common Sense
29. Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation
30. Treaty Paris 1783
Essential Questions: Cornell Note Format
1. What were the motivations for the early explorations of North America? *
2. What were the obstacles to the early explorations of North America? *
3. What were the accomplishments of the early explorations of North America? *
4. What regions of North America did Spain, France, and England explore?
(complete Explorer Chart and Map)
5. What were the cultural interactions between American Indians and Europeans?
* (Complete attachment B and informative essay)
6. What were the reasons Europeans established the colonies in North America?
(Complete 13 Colony Chart)
7. What was the geography and climate of the three regions of colonial America?
(Complete attachments C, D, and E)
8. How did the political and social lives evolve in the colonies of the three regions
of colonial America? (Complete attachments C, D, and E)
9. What was the economic and political relationship between the colonies and
Great Britain? *
Content-Area Text Questions Chapters 6-7 pages 154-217
1. Why did the French want to prevent the English from settling in the Ohio River
Valley near the Great Lakes? Pl60
2. Why did American Indian groups find the French less threatening than the
English? P159
3. What was the turning point of the French and Indian War? P162
4. How did the Proclamation of 1763 affect settlement west of the Appalachians?
P166
5. What was the first law of Parliament to directly tax the colonists?
6. What secret society formed because of this law? P169
7. What led to the reputation of the Boston Massacre? P172
8. Why did both colonial merchants and smugglers oppose the Tea Act? P173
9. Why did Samuel Adams create the Committees of Correspondence? P168
10. What occurred in April of 1775 that led to the calling of the Second Continental
Congress in Philadelphia? P185
11. The approval of what document by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,
1776 led to full-scale rebellion by the colonists? Who was the primary author of
the document? What movement in Europe was the source of most of the
philosophy of the document?
12. What two groups of people objected to being left out of the principles of the
Declaration of Independence?
13. How did Thomas Paine’s views reflect this philosophy? P190-193
14. What were some advantages of both the British and the Colonists at the
beginning of the war? P198
15. Who commanded the Continental Army? P186
16. What occurred at the Battle of Trenton? P202
17. Why was the Battle of Saratoga considered the turning point of the war? P204
18. What form of fighting was the most affective in the southern theater of the war?
P210
19. Where did the final battle of the Revolutionary War occur? Who was involved?
What happened? P211
20. What document recognized the independence of the United States and set her
national borders? What were those borders? P213