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Study guide for Unit 2: The Revolution

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1. How did the French and Indian war lead to conflict between the colonists and England?

2. Which territory did England obtain by winning the French and Indian War? (know the land boundary)

3. What was the intent of England in issuing the Proclamation of 1763?

4. What does the phrase “No taxation without representation” mean? Don’t restate.

5. How did taxation lead to conflict between the colonists and the English?

6. What arguments were presented in Thomas Paine’s Common Sense for ending ties with the British?

7. Why did Lord Cornwallis eventually decide to shift the fighting of the war to the Southern Colonies?

8. What role did geography play in helping the Americans and French win at Yorktown?

9. Why did Sam Adams start the secret group Sons of Liberty?

10. What are the major components of the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts?

11. How did the Coercive Acts specifically punish Massachusetts?

12. What does the following image represent?

13. What was Thomas Jefferson’s most significant contribution to the Revolution?

14. What are the components (parts) of the Declaration of Independence?

15. Which philosophers did Jefferson borrow ideas from when writing the Declaration?

16. What are “unalienable rights”?

17. Why did France want to help the Americans to defeat the British? Think about the French and Indian
War.

18. What did Ben Franklin do during the War to help the Americans? Think about foreign assistance.

19. How did the French aid the United States during the war? Be familiar with this!

20. What is the legacy of Valley Forge?

21. Why did Thomas Paine write the pamphlet The American Crisis? What conditions were troops facing
that led to this?

22. How did Marquis de Lafayette aid Americans? Why?

23. How did geography aid the American army in winning the Battle of Trenton?

24. After Cornwallis failed to invade Virginia, where did the go next?

25. What did Abigail Adams threaten her husband? (In regards to female rights)

26. Both sides promised freedom to male slaves who fought. Which side did this first?

27. How did women aid in the war effort?

28. Know the terms and land boundaries of the Treaty of Paris of 1783. What was supposed to happen to
loyalist?