Colonial Period and Revolution

Unit 1 Study Guide

Directions: Define the vocabulary, and answer the following questions as completely as possible in complete sentences. You may use your notes, your SOL notebook, your Workbook or a text book to help you.

Define the terms you are unfamiliar with and try to write out a complete sentence explaining their significance to our unit of study. Places, events and vocabulary terms to be familiar with:

Mayflower Common Declaration of Covenant Natural Rights Enlightenment Compact Sense Independence Community Self- Social Contract Olive Branch unalienable French and Proclamation government Petition Indian War of 1763 “Stamp Act” Boston Tea Boston Continental Minute-men Lexington & Party Massacre Congresses Concord Patriots Loyalists Treaty of Paris Great Virginia House Treaty of (Tories) (1763, 1783) Awakening of Burgesses Alliance Yorktown Battle of New England Massachusetts Pilgrims Puritans Battle Saratoga Bay Indentured Cavaliers Quakers Treaty of Town Servant Alliance meetings

Write out a complete sentence explaining who each person is and their significance to the unit. (Why is the person important?) People to know:

William Penn Paul Revere General Cornwallis Patrick Henry John Locke Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine George Washington Ben Franklin Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson Jonathan Edwards

1. Explain the European motivations for settlements in each of the three regions (New England, Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies)

2. Explain what and/or who influenced Thomas Jefferson as he wrote out the Declaration of Independence.

3. What principles of the Enlightenment can be found in the Declaration of Independence.

4. What were three outcomes of the French and Indian War?

5. Explain the acts of American resistance leading to shots being fired at Lexington & Concord.

6. Explain the diversity in the Middle Colonies. Who settled there, what religions were being practiced, what was their economy based on?

7. Explain the social, political, and economic structure of the Southern Colonies and New England.