Ch 5 Study Guide TOWARD the WAR for AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE

Chapter 5: Toward the War for American Independence

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Ch 5 Study Guide TOWARD THE WAR FOR AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE

PEOPLE, PLACES & EVENTS

1. The global population explosion of the later 1700s

2. Europe control over the Americas and eastern Asia

3. Boston:British to Americans

4. The Treaty of Paris (1763)

5. The forks of the Ohio River &George Washington

6. Quebec & the marquis of Montcalm

7. William Pitt

8. The Seven Years’ War & the American the British rivalry

9. The rift between the colonies and England

10. The uprising of the Western tribes

11. Britain troops in the colonies

12. British policy after 1763

13. British “new measures” after the Seven Years’ War

14. Americans, taxes & John Locke’s dictum

15. The Stamp Act

16. The English “Opposition” or “Country Party”

17. The post 1768 European friends of liberty

18. The Sons of Liberty

19. The Declaratory Act

20. American resistance to the Townshend duties

21. Repeal of the Townshend Duties

22. The Tea Act of 1774

23. The East India Company & tea to the colonies

24. Targets of colonial street protests in the 1700s

25. Pope’s Day in colonial Boston

26. The Coercive Acts of 1774

27. British “usurpations” real and potential

28. The First Continental Congress in late 1774

29. The colonies seize authority in 1775

30. Common Sense byThomas Paine

COMPLETION

1. The socalled Seven Years’ War, which began in America in 1754, actually lasted [ ] years.
2. According to the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1763, French holdings in North America west of the Mississippi were to be part of the empire of [ ].
3. While most Englishmen on both sides of the Atlantic agreed with John Locke that property guaranteed liberty, Americans tended to agree as well with [ ] in England that corrupt politicians regularly conspired against liberty.
4. The [ ] widened the terms of the imperial debate, intensified resistance within the colonies, and, most important, provoked the first real display of intercolonial unity.
5. The British theory of [ ] representation argued that the colonials were represented in Parliament.
6. [ ] was the inflammatory name given by Samuel Adams and friends when a panicky squad of British soldiers fired on a crowd of hecklers hurling snowballs.
7. Alarm at what they branded as “Intolerable Acts” caused leaders in almost every colony to call for [ ].
8. The first blood of an American soldier was shed by British troops at [ ] in April 1775.

IDENTIFICATION QUESTIONS

Students should be able to describe the following key terms, concepts, individuals, and places, and explain their significance:

Terms and Concepts

Seven Years’ War / Treaty of Paris, 1763
Proclamation of 1763 / Sugar Act or Revenue Act
Stamp Act / the “Opposition”
Pontiac’s Rebellion / Quartering Act
standing army / Declaratory Act
virtual representation / actual representation
Townshend Acts / Pope’s Day
Boston Massacre / Liberty riot
nonimportation / Gaspee Commission
Tea Act / Boston Tea Party
Coercive Acts / Cato’s Letters
First Continental Congress / Battle of Lexington and Concord
Continental Association / committees of correspondence
Common Sense

Individuals and Places

Edward Braddock / Marquis de Montcalm
James Wolfe / John Locke
George Grenville / Patrick Henry
Sons of Liberty / John Dickinson
George III / Samuel Adams
Thomas Gage / John Adams
Joseph Galloway / Thomas Paine

MAP IDENTIFICATIONS

Students have been given the following map exercise: On the map below, label or shade in the following places. In a sentence, note their significance to the chapter. (For reference, consult the map in Nation of Nations on page 149.)

1. Territory claimed by England in 1763
2. Territory claimed by France in 1763
3. Territory claimed by Spain in 1763
4. Proclamation Line of 1763

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