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Study Guide Unit 2: The American Revolution

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Day 15: Heritage of the Seven Year’s War

Essential Question: Why did our relationship with Great Britain turn sour after 1763?

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|History Terms |Questions |

|Define: |How did the Sons of Liberty respond to the Stamp Act? |

|Stamp Act |How was the Stamp Act crisis resolved? |

|Declaratory Act |Prior Units |

|Sam Adams |Where did the first migrants to the New World come from? |

|Pontiac’s Rebellion |Why didn’t Amerindians use horses until the 16th century? |

|Prior Units |What was Columbus hoping to prove in 1492? |

|Reformation | |

Day 16: A Worsening Crisis

Essential Question: Why were the colonies and Great Britain unable to compromise & settle their differences?

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|History Terms |Questions |

|Define: |Who defended the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre? |

|First Continental Congress |Prior Units |

|Boston Tea Party |What effect did Salutary Neglect have on America? |

|Boston Massacre |What did Roger Williams mean by “liberty of conscience”? |

|Coercive (Intolerable) Acts |How did the First Great Awakening change the colonies? |

|Committee of Correspondence |Who did most of the farming in Amerindian societies? |

Day 17: Road to Independence

Essential Question: Why did the American colonies declare independence?

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|History Terms |Questions |

|Define: |Whose writings most influenced Jefferson when he wrote the Declaration of Independence? |

|Thomas Paine |What is the purpose of government, according to the Declaration? |

|Thomas Jefferson |Why is Common Sense so important in American history? |

|Olive Branch Petition |Where did the American Revolution begin? |

|Paul Revere |What was George Washington’s role during the American Revolution? |

|Minuteman | |

Day 18: The War in the North

Essential Question: How did the United States survive fighting against the superior British Empire?

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|History Terms |Questions |

|Define: |What were the differences between the Continental Army and the militia? |

|Battle of Saratoga |What was George Washington’s military strategy during the war? |

|Tory |Prior Units |

|Prior Units |What was the main cash crop in colonial South Carolina? |

|James Oglethorpe |Why was Maryland founded? |

|Aztec |Why was Anne Hutchinson exiled? |

|Inca | |

Day 19: The War in the South

Essential Question: Why did Great Britain eventually lose their North American colonies?

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|History Terms |Questions |

|Define: |Why did the British shift their military effort to the South? |

|Battle of Yorktown |Prior Units |

|Treaty of Paris |Which colonial region was most noted for its public education? |

|Prior Units |Where were most slaves sent in the New World? |

|Salem |Why was Georgia founded? |

|Anasazi |What effect did European colonization have on Amerindians? |

|John Winthrop | |

Day 20: Legacy of the American Revolution

Essential Question: How were Americans changed by the War for Independence?

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|History Terms |Questions |

|Define: |What was the biggest paradox about America’s fight for freedom? |

|Republican Motherhood |Voting rights in the colonial era & early Republic were limited to _______. |

|Prior Units |Prior Units |

|Jamestown |What part of North America did the French colonize? |

|New Amsterdam |How did Bacon’s Rebellion change the southern colonies? |

|Plymouth |Which colony was known for town meetings? |

|New Netherlands | |

Day 21: Articles of Confederation

Essential Question: What were the successes and failures of the Articles of Confederation?

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|History Terms |Questions |

|Define: |Why did the Newburgh Conspiracy start, and how did it end? |

|Land Ordinance |Why were the Articles of Confederation considered a failure? |

|Northwest Ordinance |Prior Units |

|Adam Smith |What was the main export of Jamestown? |

|Shay’s Rebellion |Why were Quakers persecuted? |

|Prior Units |How did John Smith stabilize Jamestown? |

|Half Way Covenant | |

Day 22: A New Constitution

Essential Question: How did the Constitutional Convention solve the problems in the Articles of Confederation?

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|History Terms |Questions |

|Define: |What is meant by “checks and balances”? |

|Great Compromise |What are the roles of the three branches of government? |

|Bill of Rights |Why is the tenth amendment so significant? |

|New Jersey Plan |In the original Constitution, who are the only directly elected officials? |

|3/5 Compromise |What was the purpose of the Federalist Papers? |

|Prior Units | |

|Enlightenment | |

Vocabulary: Depict, Obtain, Upheaval, Infer, Staple

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