Chapter 4-5: Study Focus • Essay Format Essential Questions 9. What were The Coercive Acts of 19. What were the central 1774 (the Intolerable Acts) and why ideas and grievances expressed Content Standard 1: The student were they implemented? will analyze the foundations of in the Declaration of Indepen- dence? the United States by examining 10. Why was the First Continental the causes, events, and ideolo- Congress formed? gies which led to the American 20. How did John Locke‛s the- Revolution. ory of natural rights infl uence 11. What happened at the Battles of the Declaration of Indepen- Lexington and Concord and what was dence? 1. What were the political and eco- the impact on colonial resistance? nomic consequences of the French and Indian War on the 13 colo- 21. What is the concept of the 12. What was the purpose of Patrick social contract? nies? Henry‛s Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech? 2. What were the British imperial 22. What are the main ideals policies of requiring the colonies to 13. What was the purpose of and established in the Declaration pay a share of the costs of defend- main arguments made by Thomas of Independence? ing the British Empire? Paine‛s pamphlet Common Sense? 23. What were the contribu- 3. What the Albany Plan of Union? 14. What were the points of views tions of Thomas Jefferson of the Patriots and the Loyalists and the Committee of Five in 4. What was the signifi cance of the about independence? drafting the Declaration of Proclamation of 1763? Independence. 15. What are the main arguments 5. What was the intent of Patrick made by Mercy Otis Warren and 24. What are the natural rights Henry‛s Stamp Act Resolves? Phyllis Wheatley in their writings? listed in the Declaration and what is their origin? 6. What was the purpose of the 16. How did Paul Revere‛s engraving Committees of Correspondence? of the Boston Massacre infl uence colonial opinion toward the British? 25. According to the Decla- 7. What was the cause and effect ration, why are governments of the Boston Massacre? 17. What was the Olive Branch Peti- formed? tion and how was it received by King 8. What was the cause and effect George III? of the Boston Tea Party? 26. According to the Declara- 18. What were the main grievances tion where does government expressed by the Second Continen- get its powers? tal Congress?
Know the following 18. Proclamation of 1763 36. loyalists PEOPLE, PLACES, EVENTS, 19. speculators 37. Fort Toconderoga CONCEPTS 20. writs of assistance 38. minutemen 21. Sugar Act 39. Battle of Bunker Hill 1. Ohio River Valley 22. James Otis 40. George Washington as com- 2. Louisbourg 23. Patrick Henry mander of the Continental Army. 3. French & Indian War 24. nonimportation agreements 41. John Jay 4. Iroquois Confederacy 25. Declaratory Act 42. John Adams 5. George Washington as militia leader 26. Townshend Acts 43. Samuel Adams 6. Fort Necessity 27. Sons of Liberty 44. John Hancock 7. Fort Duquesne 28. Daughters of Liberty 45. First Continental Congress 8. Albany Plan of Union 29.Boston Massacre 46. Olive Branch Petition 9. Benjamin Franklin 30. Committees of Correspondence 47. Thomas Paine 10. General Edward Braddock 31. Tea Act 48. Second Continental Congress 11. Seven Years‛ War 32. Boston Tea Party 49. Declaration of Independence 12. William Pitt 33. Intolerable / Coercive Acts 50. John Locke‛s social contract 13. James Wolfe 34. Battles of Lexington & Concord theory of law and natural rights 14. Quebec 35. Paul Revere 51. Preamble 15. Plains of Abraham 34. William Dawes 16. Treaty of Paris 35. patriots 17. Pontiac‛s War Ch. 4-5 Essay Topics
• Essays will be written in class. In advance and as a class we will se- lect the topic which will be written in class the day after the scheduled exam.
• Pre-AP students will prepare all essays. One essay will be selected by lottery and written the day of the essay.
• Underline your thesis statement
1. How were the colonies viewed by Britain before, during and after the French and Indian War?
2. What was the impact of the Proclamation of 1763 on the British, the Native Americans and the colonials?
3. To what extend was the Boston Massacre a massacre , a propaganda tool and a justifi ed action?
4. How were the Coercive Acts intolerable to the colonists?
5. How were the actions of the 1st and 2nd Continental Congress a chal- lenge to British control of their colonies?
6. What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence and how was it a refl ection of Enlightenment ideals?