Period 3 Textbook Assignment
Directions: Read Chapters 5, 6, and part of 7 (214-230). While reading, you need to respond to the questions below…you get choices!
Chapter 5: Out of the 10 questions below, you MUST answer 5.
- What was the impact of the Great War for Empire (aka French and Indian War) on British policy makers and the colonies?
- Why did most British and colonial leaders reject the idea that the colonies should be represented in Parliament?
- Why did the Stamp Act arouse so much more resistance than the Sugar Act?
- Why were southerners more threatened by challenges to the institution of slavery than northerners?
- How did the nonimportation movement bring women into the political sphere?
- What groups were most interested western lands, and why did Hillsborough oppose them?
- What was Benjamin Franklin’s position on colonial representation in 1765 and why had his view changed by 1770?
- Why did colonists react so strongly against the Tea Act, which imposed a small tax and actually lowered the price of tea?
- Why did Parliament prefer North’s solution to the Boston Tea Party to William Pitt’s?
- How did the violence around Boston in the spring of 1775 affect proceedings in the Second Continental Congress?
Chapter 6: Out of the 10 questions below, you MUST answer 5.
- Why was control of New York City Britain’s first military objective in the emerging war?
- What factors made it difficult for the Continental Congress to create an effective army?
- What were the most important results of the Patriot victory at Saratoga?
- What were the keys to the Patriot victory in the South?
- Despite being at a clear disadvantage at the start of the war, the American Patriots won. Why?
- What impact did republican ideals have on gender roles and expectations during the Revolutionary era?
- How did the Revolutionary commitment to liberty and protection of property affect enslaved African Americans and western Indians?
- In what ways did the Confederation function effectively, and what were its greatest failures?
- How did the Shaysites draw on the Revolution for inspiration?
- How did the Constitution in its final form differ from the plan James Madison originally proposed?
Chapter 7 (p214-230 ONLY): Out of the 6 questions below, you MUST answer 3.
- Why did Hamilton believe a national debt would strengthen the United States and help ensure its survival?
- How did Jefferson’s idea of an agrarian republic differ from the economic vision put forth by Alexander Hamilton?
- How did events abroad during the 1790s sharpen political divisions in the United States?
- Why did Jefferson consider his election in 1800 to be revolutionary?
- Why did the United States go to war against western Indians so quickly after the Revolution?
- Why were western migration and agricultural improvement so widespread in the late 18th and early 19th centuries?