Unit Two Terms/Essential Questions Your reading notes should include additional names/terms in addition to the following: Vainglorious Edict of Nantes de Champlain Jesuits De la Salle guerilla warfare Treaty of Utrecht War of Austrian Succession Cajuns French and Indian War (Seven Years War) Albany Congress Albany Plan Battle of Quebec Treaty of Paris Pontiac Proclamation of 1763.

Mercantilism Virtual Representation Sugar Act Writs of Assistance Stamp Act Grenville Stamp Act Congress Sons of Liberty Declaratory Act Townshend Duties Committees of Correspondence Samuel Adams Intolerable Acts 1st Continental Congress.

2ND Continental Congress Benedict Arnold Olive Branch Petition Thomas Paine Republicanism Natural Aristocracy Patriots Loyalists Saratoga French Alliance Cowpens Treaty of Ft. Stanwix George Rogers Clark John Paul Jones Treaty of Paris 1783. 1. Write your definition of democracy. Then use this definition to argue that colonial politics had or had not become democratic by 1760.

2. Why did the Ohio Valley become the arena of conflict between the French and British in America?

3. Which of the following do you think contributed most to the British victory in the French and Indian War: the leadership of William Pitt, the aid of American colonists, or the skill of the British regulars? Justify your choice.

4. It is sometimes observed that the roots of future wars lie in the results of post wars. In what ways does it appear that the French and Indian War helped to cause the American Revolutionary War?

5. The French and Indian War has also been called the “Great War for Empire.” Explain why this might be an appropriate name for this war.

6. Explain the relationship between mercantilism, the Navigation Laws, and English efforts to create an administrative structure for their empire after 1696.

7. Given that the Quebec Act did not apply to the thirteen seaboard colonies, why did the act create such a stir of protest among them?

8. What were the major advantages and disadvantages of the English and the colonists, respectively, as the American Revolutionary War began? What would England have to do to win? What would the colonists have to do to win?

9. Consider the phrase “point of no return.” Identify that point in colonial-English relations between 1760 and 1776 and explain why you chose that event. 10. How did both taxation and representation become major sources of controversy between the colonists and Parliament?

11. In what ways were the mercantilist policies of England burdensome to the colonists? In what ways were they beneficial?

12. Account for the widespread and enthusiastic reception of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.

13. List the 3 most important battles of the Revolutionary War. Justify your selections.

14. Explain why Kennedy concludes that the France-American alliance was “not prompted by a love for America but by a realistic concern for the interests of France.” In what ways did the French contribute to colonial independence?

15. It is often argued that the English lost the Revolutionary War more than the Americans won it. Do you agree? Why?

16. The combat of the Revolutionary War began in Spring 1775. Why did colonists wait until the summer of 1776 to declare independence?