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Chapter 5: The Road To Revolution
1745-1776
Section 1: Trouble on the Frontier:
Focus Question: How did the British gain French territory in North America?
1. Define the term militia. (p. 140)
2. Define the term alliance. (p. 141)
3. Why were the British concerned about French activity in the Ohio River valley? (p.140-141)
4. Look at the Political Cartoon on page 141. Identify the eight sets of intials that label the eight pieces of the snake. What point is Franklin making about the importance of colonial unity?
5. How did the French and Indian War affect the 13 colonies? How did most colonists feel about helping the British? Explain (p.140-143)
6. How did the war go for the British before 1757? After 1757? (p.140-143)
7. How might the outcome influence relations between the British and the American colonists? (p.140-144)
8. What fatal errors did General Edward Braddock make? (p. 142-143)
9. What was the outcome of the Battle of Quebec? (p.144)
Section2: The Colonists Resist Tighter Control:
Focus Question: How did the French and Indian War draw the colonists closer together but increase friction with Britain?
10. What were the terms of the Proclamation of 1763? (p.145-146)
11. Why did the British feel the Proclamation was critical in their relationship with the Native Americans? (p.145-146)
12. Using the Chart on page 146, explain which nation faced huge expenses after the war?
13. Using the same above chart, how do you think the war impacted relations between Britain and the colonies? (p.146)
On page 147 look/READ Biography Quest about Patrick Henry and read the excerpt from his famous speech.
14. Define the term duty. (p. 146)
15. Define the term boycott. (p. 147)
16. Define the term petition. (p. 147)
17. Why did the British impose new taxes on the American colonies? (p.145-146)
18. Why did the colonists object to the Stamp Act? (p. 147)
19. Define the term Writs of Assistance. (p.148)
20. What happened during the Boston Massacre? Why do you think the colonists described this event as a massacre? (p.148-149)
21. Read the text following the subheading “Committees of Correspondence.” Give a detail from the text to support the following inference: The colonists believed that the strength of unity would help them. (p.149)
Section 3: From Protest to Rebellion:
Focus Question: How did British tax policies move the colonist’s closer to rebellion?
22. Define the term monopoly. (p.151)
23. Why did Britain pass the Tea Act? (p.150-151)
24. How did the Boston colonists show their opposition to the Tea Act? (p.151)
25. What other ways, besides the Boston Tea Party, might colonists have protested the Tea Act? (Think about what you read in Section 2 to help answer this question)
26. What were the Intolerable Acts? How did the Intolerable Acts affect colonial unity? (p.151 LIST THEM AND EXPLAIN!)
27. What did the First Continental Congress accomplish? (p. 152)
28. Define the term repeal. (p.152)
29. Define the term minutemen. (p.152)
30. What led to the conflict at Lexington and Concord? (p.152-153)
31. How did the American Revolution begin? (p.152-153)
32. Why do you think the first shot fired at Lexington was called “the shot heard round the world? (p.152-153 and your knowledge of what we have been discussing)
Section 4: The War Begins:
Focus Question: How did the American Revolution begin?
33. Look at Lord Dunmore’s Declaration on page 157. According to Dunmore, why are the Patriots a danger to the colony? Do you think Dunmore’s declaration will be obeyed? Explain your answer.
34. What were the major achievements of the Second Continental Congress? (p.156)
35. How did the Second Continental Congress influence the conflict between the colonists and Britain? (p.156-157)
36. How did the divided loyalties of the colonists affect the Second Continental Congress? (p.157)
37. What did the Patriots want? (p.157)
38. Why do you think Loyalists were described as “having their heads in England…but their bodies in America”? (p.157-158)
39. Define the term blockade. (P. 161)
40. Define the term mercenaries. (p. 161)
41. What did the Battle of Bunker Hill show about the American and British forces? P. 160-162)