Unit 2 Test on Wednesday, September 30, 2026
The American Revolution (1754-1787)
Essential Questions
Why did people choose their allegiances during the American Revolution?
How did the colonies shift from various European cultures to a more unified American culture?
How revolutionary was the Revolutionary War?
Unit 3 Notes
3.1 3.10
3.2 3.11
3.3 3.12
3.4 3.13
3.5 3.14
3.6 3.15
3.7
3.8
3.9
Resources
The Beginnings of Revolutionary Thinking
The Impact of Enlightenment in Europe
The Great Awakening
The Trial of John Peter Zenger
Smuggling
A Tradition of Rebellion
"What Is the American?"
America's Place in the Global Struggle
New France
The French and Indian War
George Washington's Background and Experience
The Treaty of Paris (1763) and Its Impact
The Events Leading to Independence
The Royal Proclamation of 1763
The Stamp Act Controversy
The Boston Patriots
The Townshend Acts
The Boston Massacre
The Tea Act and Tea Parties
The Intolerable Acts
E Pluribus Unum
Stamp Act Congress
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Committees of Correspondence
First Continental Congress
Second Continental Congress
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
The Declaration of Independence
The American Revolution
American and British Strengths and Weaknesses
Loyalists, Fence-sitters, and Patriots
Lexington and Concord
Bunker Hill
The Revolution on the Home Front
Washington at Valley Forge
The Battle of Saratoga
The French Alliance
Yorktown and the Treaty of Paris
Societal Impacts of the American Revolution
The Impact of Slavery
A Revolution in Social Law
Political Experience
"Republican Motherhood"