Students will be able to analyze and evaluate how Britain’s victory over France in the imperial struggle for North America led to new conflicts among the British government, the North American colonists and American Indians, culminating in the creation of a new nations, the United States.
4- Students can analyze and evaluate how Britain's victory over France in the imperial struggle for North American led to new conflicts among the British government, the North America colonist and the American Indians, culmination in the creation of a new nations, the United States, and how this war led to new experiments with democratic ideas and republican forms of government, as well as other new religious, economic and cultural ideas, challenged traditional imperial systems across the Atlantic World.
3 - Students can analyze and evaluate how Britain's victory over France in the imperial struggle for North American led to new conflicts among the British government, the North America colonist and the American Indians, culmination in the creation of a new nations, the United States.
2 - Students can explain how Britain's victory over France in the imperial struggle for North American led to new conflicts among the British government, the North America colonist and the American Indians, culmination in the creation of a new nations, the United States.
1 - Students can recognize how Britain's victory over France in the imperial struggle for North American led to new conflicts among the British government, the North America colonist and the American Indians, culmination in the creation of a new nations, the United States.
You need to know the importance of the following:
1763 - The Proclamation Act of 1763
1764- Sugar Act
1765 - Stamp Act
1767 - Townshend Act
1770 - Boston Massacre
1773 - Tea Act
1773- Boston Tea Pary
1774 - Intolerable Acts
1st and 2nd Continental Congress
April 1775 - Lexington and Concord
People: Sam Adams, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, Ben Franklin.
Battle of Bunker Hill
Olive Branch Petition
Ticongeroda
Battle of Quebec
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Trenton
Battle of Long Island
Battle of Monmouth
Battle of Cowpens
Battle of Yorktown
William Howe
Richard Montgomery
Benedict Arnold
Thomas Paine
Lord Charles Cornwallis
John Burgoyne
Nathanael Greene
Ethan Allen
Comte de Rochambeau
Admiral de Grasse
British Ad:
More money, larger population (7.2 million to 2.5 million),
a Navy (the most powerful navy in the world), and a professional army of 50,000
soldiers as well as being able to employ another 30,000 Hessian soldiers.
British Disad:
Fighting away from home – 3000 miles, which added to delays
in reinforcements, Military orders and supplies; morally ambiguous war, not
every soldier agreed with the war, weak Parliament with 2nd rate
ministers, some Whigs thought that Americans were doing the right thing. General population was against the war. 2nd class Generals; a stubborn
Monarch who was obsessed with power.
Had to send troops to Ireland
Americans Ad:
Home tuff – fighting a defensive war; good leadership –
particularly Washington and Franklin; foreign aid (French and Spain wanted to
get back at Britain); fighting a moral war; self-sustaining
Americans Disad:
Militia – untrained, unreliable, and served only a short
time; disorganized and not united; lacked hard money; sectional jealousy and
distrust; lacked a strong government (or a government until 1781); often short
of supplies – food, clothing, shoes, guns, ammo; merchants sometimes sold
supplies to British;
Possible Study Questions.
CHAPTER 7: THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION: 1763—1775
The Deep Roots of Revolution
26. Why
does the author say that the American Revolution began when the first settlers
stepped ashore?
Mercantilism and Colonial Grievances
Know: Mercantilism, Navigation Laws, Royal Veto
27. Explain
the economic theory of mercantilism and the role of colonies.
28. How
did Parliament enact the theory of mercantilism into policy?
The Merits and Menace of Mercantilism
Know: Salutary Neglect, John Hancock, Bounties
29. In what ways did the mercantilist theory
benefit the colonies?
30. What
economic factors were involved in leading colonists to be displeased with the
British government?
The Stamp Tax Uproar
Know: George Grenville, Sugar Act, Quartering Act, Stamp
Act, Admiralty Courts, Virtual Representation
31. Why
were the colonists so upset over relatively mild taxes and policies?
Forced Repeal of the Stamp Act
Know:
Stamp Act Congress, Nonimportation Agreements,
Homespun, Sons of Liberty, Declaratory Act
32. In what ways did colonists resist the
Stamp Act?
The Townshend Tea Tax and the Boston
"Massacre"
Know: Townshend Acts, Indirect Tax, Boston
Massacre, John Adams
33. How did the Townshend Acts lead to more
difficulties?
The Seditious Committees of Correspondence
Know: George III, Lord North, Samuel Adams,
Committees of Correspondence
34. How did Committees of Correspondence
work?
Tea Brewing in Boston
Know: British East India Company, Boston Tea Party
35. What
was the cause of the Boston Tea Party, and what was its significance?
Parliament Passes the "Intolerable Acts"
Know: Boston
Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, Quartering
Act of 1774, Quebec Act
36. What
was so intolerable about the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts?
Bloodshed
Know: First
Continental Congress, Declaration of Rights, The Association, Tar and Feathers,
Minute Men, Lexington and Concord
37. What was the goal of the First
Continental Congress?
Imperial Strength and Weakness
Know: Hessians, Tories
38. What
were British strengths and weaknesses at the outset of the war?
American Pluses and Minuses
Know: George Washington, Ben Franklin, Marquis de
Lafayette, Continentals
39. What
were the American strengths and weaknesses at the outset of the war?
A Thin Line of Heroes
Know: Valley Forge, Baron von Steuben, Continental
Army
40. What role was played by
African-Americans in the Revolution?
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