Unit 2 Review
The Revolution
1760-1785
Ch. 6-8
Themes:
- The short and long term causes of the American Revolution
- Colonial assemblies as leaders against Great Britain
- The Revolution was fomented by changes in British colonial policy in the 1763-1776
- The Revolution was brought on by tight economic controls and loose political controls
- The ideas/ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence
- Several different interpretations by historians on the causes of the American Revolution
- Was the Treaty of Paris (1783) a victory for the U.S.?
- How had the 13 separate colonies become similar by the time of Revolution?
- The American Revolution as a democratic revolution turned into an aristocratic government by the Constitution
- The American Revolution as a question of home rule and who should rule at home
- The American Revolution as a revolutionary event (consider the economic and social changes associated with the Revolution)
- Was the Revolution avoidable?
Terms:
- Proclamation of 1763
- Sugar Act (1764)
- Virtual representation
- Stamp Act - 1765
- Quartering Act - 1765
- Virginia Resolves
- Stamp Act Congress
- Sons of Liberty
- Write os assistance
- Declaratory Act - 1766
- Townshend Acts - 1767
- Sam Adams
- Boston Massacre - 1770
- Patrick Henry
- John Dickinson
- Cripus Attucks
- Committees of Correspondence
- Boston Tea party - 1773
- Intolerable Acts - 1774
- Quebec Act - 1774
- First Continental Congress - 1774
- Articles of Confederation
- Second Continental Congress - 1775
- Common Sense
- Lexington & Concord
- Olive Branch Petition
- Saratoga
- French Alliance of 1778
- Loyalists (Tories)
- Yorktown - 1781
- Shay's Rebellion
- Annapolis Convention
- Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Essay Questions:
- Assess the validity of the following statement: "The American Revolution was a conservative movement."
- Compare and contrast the philosophies and ideas in Paine's Common Sense and Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.