How did the competition among the French, British and American Indians for economic and political advantage culminate on the French and Indian War?
What were the causes and effects of the French and Indian War?
(A) What were the causes of the French and Indian War?
Ohio Company
Celeron’s Expedition
(B) What were the effects of the French and Indian War?
British debt doubles
Direct tax the colonies
Proclamation of 1763
(C) How successful was the British attempt at keeping settlers from moving west after the war? What conflicts with natives persisted on those lands?
Pontiac’s Rebellion
How did British imperial efforts and the colonial assertion of self-government ideals lead to an independence movement and war with Britain?
(A) How did British imperial efforts to collect taxes and assert colonial authority begin to unite colonists against perceived and real threats to their economic activities and political rights?
Stamp Act
Townshend Acts
Coercive Acts
(B) What was the basis of colonial calls for resistance? (rights of British subjects, the rights of the individual, local traditions of self-rule, and the ideas of the Enlightenment)
Stamp Act Congress
Massachusetts Circular Letter
First Continental Congress
(C) How was the American effort for independence energized by leaders like Ben Franklin and popular movements that included political activism of laborers, artisans, and women?
Stamp Act Q&A
Son’s of Liberty
Boycotts,
tar and feathering
sewing circles
(D) Even though people faced military occupation and economic shortages, why did men and women mobilized in large numbers to provide financial and material support to the Patriot movement?
Local militias
John Hancock
George Washington
Benedict Arnold
(E) Was it an American victory or British defeat?
Treaty of Alliance
What 18th Century beliefs about politics, religion, and society are reflected in the ideals that inspired the revolutionary cause?
(A) How are Enlightenment figures, like John Locke, reflected in the Declaration of Independence?
Individual talent over hereditary privilege
Religion strengthened American view as people who are blessed with liberty
John Locke
(B) What are the ideals found in Declaration of Independence and Common Sense that inspire the revolutionary cause?
Common Sense
(C) How did the views on slavery among the Quakers influenced American culture?
Quakers Address Slavery
(D) How did the ideal of “republican motherhood” grow out of women’s appeals for a greater role in society?
Abigail Adams Letters to John Adams
(E) How did the American independence movement inspire other movements?
French Revolution
Latin American Independence Movements
Why did American political leaders create state and federal constitutions that protect individual liberties and limit centralized power and excessive popular influence?
(A) What were the qualifications for voting and citizenship under early state constitutions?
Compare MA, PA, SC
(B) What were the issues under the Articles of Confederation that led to the call for a stronger central government?
Annapolis Convention
(C) How did compromise contribute to the creation the Constitution?
Great Compromise
(D) How did the Constitution address the issue of slavery?
3/5ths Compromise
(E) What were the reasons for and the results of the ratification debate between Federalists and Antifederalists?
Bill of Rights
How did new forms of national culture and political institutions develop alongside continued regional variations and differences over economic, political, social, and foreign policy issues?
(A) What institutions were created and precedents set during the first Presidential administrations?
Washington’s Cabinet
(B) How did the issues of the Federalist Era lead to political parties?
Hamilton v. Jefferson
(C) What regional attitudes toward slavery developed as slavery expanded in the South and western lands?
Northwest Ordinance
(D) How did works of art reflect ideas about national identity?
John Trumbull
In the decades after American independence, how did interactions among different groups result in competition for resources, shifting alliances, and cultural blending?
(A) How did native Americans try to protect tribal lands and resources from white migration and settlement?
Jay Treaty
March of the Paxton Boys
(B) How did westward migration after the war lead to social, political, and ethnic tensions?
VA: frontier vs tidewater
(C) What was the Northwest Ordinance?
Northwest Ordinance
(D) How were the agreements between the Federal government and American Indians honored in the decades following the American Revolution?
Battle of Fallen Timbers
(E) How did the Spanish missions impact settlement of California?
Spanish missions
How did the United States protect its borders, maintain neutral trading rights, and promote economic interests?
(A) How did the United States use diplomatic initiatives to support settlers west of the Appalachians seeking free navigation of the Mississippi?
Jay Treaty (1794)
Pinckney Treaty (1795)
(B) Why did the war between Britain and France present the United States with free trade and foreign policy issues? What political disagreements arose from this situation?
Proclamation of Neutrality
Citizen Genet
XYZ Affair
(C) Why did Washington’s Farewell Address encourage national unity while cautioning against foreign alliances and political parties?
Washington’s Farewell Address