HW for 11/17

Read 118-124 and answer:

# Why was the Tea Act seen by many Americans as a threat to themselves and their institutions?
# What were the Coercive Acts? How did the Quebec Act help to unite the colonies with Boston in opposition to these acts?
# How and why did taverns become a central institution in colonial American social life? What circumstances and events helped make taverns central to political life as well?
# What role was played by Committees of Correspondence in the American protests?
# What were the FIVE major decisions made at the First Continental Congress? What was their significance?
# What British leaders spoke out in support of the American cause? What were their reasons for doing so?
# What were the circumstances that led to the fighting at Lexington and Concord?

HW for 11/9/09

Please read pages 102-107. Answer these questions:

How did the relationship between king and Parliament change during the early 18c? What role did the prime minister play in this change?

Why was the period of the late 17c and early 18c called the "Era of Salutary Neglect?"

How did British officials in the colonies carry out [or fail to carry out] their duties? What was the effect of their activities?

What was the Albany Plan of Union? Why did it fail? What did it reveal about colonial unity?

How did the French attempt to secure their hold on the vast areas they claimed in North America?

What were the causes of the "Great War for Empire" [the Sevens Years' War or French and Indian War]? Why was it given that name?

How did the Great War for Empire become a truly international conflict? What role did the French and British colonies play in this war?

What were the stereotypes that the English had about the American colonists? that the American colonists had about the British?

What role did Native Americans play in the French and Indian War?

Why did the French lose?

List the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1763.

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Government: Ltd or Absolute?

Your homework for Friday is to:
1. Study for your map quiz.
2. Complete the worksheet linked below. Read each of the excerpts and answer the questions that follow. You may print if you wish or you may write the answers to the questions in your notebook.

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Causes of the Revolution Test

Your test will be on Monday, November 17.

Review the Causes of the Revolution project. For each causes, be familiar with:

• Background to the event
• What happened and why?
• Any significant dates (it's a great idea to learn them with their dates)
• the results: How did colonists/the British react to the event? What were the consequences?
• Which colony is affected the most?
  

Be familiar with these terms:

• tyrant
• duties
  
• sovereign
• the American idea of representation
• the British idea of representation
• Join or Die
• Lexington and Concord
• The Coercive Acts, aka: The Intolerable Acts
  

Homework for 11/11 (Veteran's Day, Armistice Day)

Your homework is to read pages 117 (The Philosophy of Revolt) through 124. Please respond to the following questions:

1. How did the colonial view of the nature of the British Empire differ from the view by George III and his supporters?
2. What was the "political outlook" that gained a following in America and ultimately served to justify revolt?
3. Why was the Tea Act seen by many Americans as a threat to themselves and their institutions?
4. What were the Coercive Acts? How did the Quebec Act help to unite the colonies with Boston in opposition to these acts?
5. How and why did taverns become a central institution in colonial American social life? What circumstances and events helped make taverns central to political life as well?
6. What role was played by Committees of Correspondence in the American protests?
7. What were the FIVE major decisions made at the First Continental Congress? What was their significance?
8. What British leaders spoke out in support of the American cause? What were their reasons for doing so?
9. What were the circumstances that led to the fighting at Lexington and Concord?