Chapter 5 The Revolutionary War Study Guide (Sections 1-3)

A.   Explain the cause and effect chain of reaction that began with the Tea Act in 1773 and ended with the fighting on Breeds Hill in Boston.  Focus on the following:

1.     Tea Act

2.    Boston Tea Party

3.    Coercive or Intolerable Acts

4.    1^st Continental Congress

5.    Lexington and Concord

6.    2^nd Continental Congress

7.    Breeds Hill

B.    Compare and contrast the American and British army’s at the start of the Revolutionary War.

C.    Identify:

1.     Paul Revere

2.    George Washington

3.    Committee of Correspondence

4.    King George III

5.    Intolerable Acts four actions taken be England

6.    Minute men

7.    Tories

8.    Whigs

D.   Identify the actions of both the 1^st and 2^nd Continental Congress

Privy Council                       

Parliament (House of Lords and Commons)

Lords of Trade

county courts

governor

town meetings

Colonial Legislatures

justice of the peace

French and English Colonies (differences)                                                                             Pontiac's Rebellion                                                                               
favorable balance of trade

Navigation Acts
Declaratory Act
duties
indirect taxes                
Glorious Revolution      
Proclamation of 1763
Stamp Act 
Boston Massacre                  
Sugar Act 
Robert Dinwiddie 
Samuel Adams                
John Adams    
James Wolfe                                                                                                                                              Sons of Liberty                                                                            
George Washington                                                

Townshend Acts            

Enumerated Goods                                                                                                       
No taxation without Representation

Be prepared to answer these questions as an essay                                                         

Why was it important for England to regulate the economy of the colonies?

How did England's attempts to tax the colonies set the stage for independence?  Give at least three examples.

Study Guide Chapter 3 Colonial Life

1.) Cash crops

2.) Frontier

3.) Squatters

4.) Town Common

5.) Naval Stores

6.) Triangular Trade

7.) Middle Passage

8.) Peculiar Institution

9.) Political Equality

10.) One Man, One vote

11.) Great Awakening

12.) Enlightenment

13.) Benjamin Franklin

14.) George Whitefield

15.) Jonathan Edwards

16.) Charles Mason

Things to Know:

1.) Cash crops of the North and South

2.) Schooling systems of the colonies

3.) Benefits of a one person. one vote rule

4 .) Bacons Rebellion

5.) Patterns of Slavery

6.) Conditions of women in colonial America 

7) Indentured servants and African slaves as solutions to labor shortage

8.) Triangular Trade

a. North American Colonies

b. West Indies

c. Africa

d. Trade involved with Europe

9.) Great Awakening be able to compare it with the Enlightenment

10.) Enlightenment

11.) Albany Plan of Union

Chapter 2 Study Guide

Identify the following
Puritans
Indentured Servants
Enclosure Movement
Soldier of Fortune
Pilgrims
Toleration Act
House of Burgesses
Mayflower Compact
Protestant Reformation
Joint Stock Company
Spanish Armada
Headright System
Starving Time
Charter
Proprietary Colony
Sir Walter Raleigh
James Oglethorpe
Peter Minuit
William Penn
John Smith
Sir Francis Drake
Anne Hutchinson
Manhattan
John Winthrop
Squanto
Roger Williams
Maryland
Georgia

Identify reasons why the English colonized the New World

Compare and Contrast the Jamestown and Plymouth settlements
Spain’s colonies
France’s colonies
Why is the Toleration Act Important?
Why were Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson driven out of Massachusetts Bay Colony?