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UNIT III STUDY GUIDE

Moving Toward Revolution

Learning Objectives Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:

1. Explain the evolution of the European empires within the colonies. 2. Identify areas of strength for both the French and English within the

Americas. 3. Divide the English colonies into regions and describe the characteristics

that were found within each region. 4. Identify the roles of various groups such as slaves and women within

colonial society. 5. Describe the impact of important movements such as the Great

Awakening and the Enlightenment on the developing ideology of the colonies.

6. Outline the causes, events, and effects of the French and Indian War. 7. List the English Acts that affected the colonies during this time period

and describe the Colonial response to them as well as the English reasoning behind them.

8. Identify the beginnings of the American Revolution. 9. Describe the power of religion in colonial America and identify key

religious elements and their impact during this time frame.

Written Lecture Unit III is composed of Chapters 5 and 6. These chapters highlight various events, ideas, and people who began to provide the Colonies with a unique cultural identity. This identity is strongly evident in the British colonies and led to the rise of American nationalism. Chapter 5 lists the major regions of North America, and identifies the powers to which each region belongs. It provides the characteristics that define each region economically, socially, and politically. Further, it details the population growth and immigration which occurred during the time period, and how especially England differed in its stance toward immigration to its colonies. The focus then shifts toward these English colonies. The major influences of the time, the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, are discussed, as is the influence of both in creating new ideas of liberty and freedom. Chapter 6 opens with the Seven Years War. The various battles are discussed and the impact the war as a whole had on both England and colonial America is carefully examined. From this war and movements discussed in the previous chapter, colonists began to develop a sense of American nationalism. Following the War, Great Britain began to change its methods of colonial control. Suddenly, the mother country was much more involved in Colonial affairs. Colonial resistance abounded, and the colonies, for the first time, began to identify more

Reading Assignment Chapter 5: The Cultures of Colonial North America, 1700- 1780 Chapter 6: From Empire to Independence, 1750- 1776

Supplemental Reading Instructions are below Written Lecture

Learning Activities (Non Graded) Instructions are below Written Lecture

Key Terms 1. Albany Conference 2. Almanac 3. Boston Massacre 4. Boston Tea Party 5. Calvinist theology of

election 6. Coercive Acts 7. Declaratory Act 8. Encomienda 9. Engages 10. Enlightenment 11. First Continental

Congress 12. French and Indian War 13. Great Awakening

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with one another than with the mother country. Finally, a loose confederation

formed, and the Revolution began. International reaction to the Revolution is a key concept explored within the chapter. This unit goes beyond simply identifying and detailing Colonial wars. This unit outlines the many small steps that led to the development of the Patriot character. These men challenged the mother country and demanded the rights deserved by all men. This was a new notion that would shape a new nation.

Supplemental Reading From American History I: Primary Source Documents:

3-5: The Closing of the Frontier (1763) 4-1: Benjamin Franklin, Testimony Against the Stamp Act (1766) 4-2: The Boston “Massacre” or Victims of Circumstance? (1770) 4-3: John Andrews to William Barrel, Letter Regarding the Boston Tea Party (1773) 5-1: A Freelance Writer Urges His Readers To Use Common Sense (1776) 5-3: Joseph Warren, “Account of the Battle of Lexington” (1775)

Learning Activities (Non Graded) Read the Primary Source Documents listed in the Supplemental Reading, and respond to the focus questions located after each document. For a review of the Key Terms of the unit, click here to access the interactive Unit I Flashcards in PowerPoint form. (Click here to access a PDF version.)

14. Intolerable Acts 15. New Lights 16. Nonimportation

movement 17. Old Lights 18. Plan of Union 19. Quartering Act 20. Quebec Act 21. Republicanism 22. Royal Proclamation of

1763 23. Sons of Liberty 24. Stamp Act 25. Sugar Act 26. Tea Act 27. The Act of Toleration 28. Townshend Revenue

Acts 29. Treaty of Paris 30. Virtual representation 31. Whigs