APUSH - Chapter 5 Study Guide // The American Revolution 1763-1783 // Pages 184-215 - DUE Wednesday, Oct. 14th!

Vocabulary: *Define each term as it relates to the chapter and COLONIAL America.*
1. Stamp Act
6. Green Mountain (Ethan Allen)
2. Virtual Representation
7. Townshend Act
3. Sugar Act
8. Boston Massacre
4. Sons of Liberty
9. Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
5. Declaratory Act
10. Continental Congress

11. Thomas Paines Common Sense

12. Declaration of Independence
13. Valley Forge
14. Treaty of Amity and Commerce
15. Treaty of Paris of 1783

Chapter Outline:
I.
Chapter Introduction - starting on page 184
II.
The Crisis Begins
A. Consolidating the Empire
B. Taxing the Colonies
C. Stamp Act Crisis
D. Taxation and Representation
E. Liberty and Resistance
F. Politics in the Streets
G. The Regulators
H. Tenant Uprising
III.
Road to Revolution
A. Townshend Crisis
B. Homespun Virtue
C. Boston Massacre
D. Wilkes and Liberty
E. Tea Act
F. Intolerable Acts
IV.
The Coming of Independence
A. Continental Congress
B. Continental Association
C. Sweets of Liberty
D. Outbreak of War
E. Independence
F. Common Sense
G. Paines Impact
H. The Declaration of Independence
I. The Declaration and American Freedom
J. An Asylum for Mankind
K. Global Declaration of Independence
V.
Securing Independence
A. Balance of Power
B. Blacks in the Revolution
C. The First Years of the War
D. Battle of Saratoga
E. The War in the South
F. Victory at Last
Guiding Questions: Each of the following questions require you to critically look at the evidence (FACTS) presented in the text.
Responses should re-state the question in the form of your main statement with multiple factual pieces of evidence to support your
statement.
1. What key events sharpened the divisions between Britain and the colonists in the late 1760s and early 1770s
2. Patrick Henry proclaimed that he was not a Virginia, but rather an American. What unified the colonists and what divided them
at the time of the Revolution?
3. Many historians say that the Declaration of Independence is the most important document in United States history. How did it
permanently change the meaning of American freedom? What concepts make it so appealing to the people of all social classes,
across time and the globe?