You are responsible for knowing the following
Terms and Names:
French Indian War, William Pitt, Pontiac, Proclamation of 1763, George Grenville, Sugar Act, Mercantilism, Stamp Act, Townshend Act, Boston Massacre, Committees of Correspondence, Boston Tea Party, King George III, Intolerable Acts, Martial Law, Minutemen, 2nd Continental Congress, Olive Branch Petition, Common Sense, Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, Patriots, Loyalist, John Locke, Natural Rights, Trenton, Saratoga, Valley Forge, Profiteering, Friedrich von Steuben, Marquis de Lafayette, Charles Cornwallis, Yorktown, Treaty of Paris
Main Ideas:
1. Why would the colonist oppose British attempt's to tax and regulate them?
2. Discuss the colonist reaction to British attempt's to tax and regulate them.
3. How did the colonist try to reconcile their differences with Britain?
4. Why was the Battle of Saratoga the turning point of the American Revolution?
5. Explain why Cornwallis was forced to surrender at Yorktown?
Think Critically:
1. If you were living in the time of the Revolutionary War, would you have chosen
to be a Loyalist or a Patriot? Explain your position.
Terms and Names:
French Indian War, William Pitt, Pontiac, Proclamation of 1763, George Grenville, Sugar Act, Mercantilism, Stamp Act, Townshend Act, Boston Massacre, Committees of Correspondence, Boston Tea Party, King George III, Intolerable Acts, Martial Law, Minutemen, 2nd Continental Congress, Olive Branch Petition, Common Sense, Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, Patriots, Loyalist, John Locke, Natural Rights, Trenton, Saratoga, Valley Forge, Profiteering, Friedrich von Steuben, Marquis de Lafayette, Charles Cornwallis, Yorktown, Treaty of Paris
Main Ideas:
1. Why would the colonist oppose British attempt's to tax and regulate them?
2. Discuss the colonist reaction to British attempt's to tax and regulate them.
3. How did the colonist try to reconcile their differences with Britain?
4. Why was the Battle of Saratoga the turning point of the American Revolution?
5. Explain why Cornwallis was forced to surrender at Yorktown?
Think Critically:
1. If you were living in the time of the Revolutionary War, would you have chosen
to be a Loyalist or a Patriot? Explain your position.