Question Writer Notes on the
Junior Division SOCIAL STUDIES STUDY GUIDE 2012
Location/purposes of European countries in North America
-why were the English most successful
-what was the purpose of a Joint Stock Company
-location of the London Company rights
-Queen Elizabeth I charter grants
-details of the Jamestown settlement
-why did the French come to North America
-Where did the French settle
-breadth of French settlement/colonization
-cause of French loss of territory
-relocation of French Acadians
-Dutch claims in North America
-who were the Walloons
-major interest of the Dutch in North America
-how did New Amsterdam become New York
-who was Peter Stuyvesant
-what was the goal of Spanish settlers in North America
-location of Spanish settlements
-purpose of a presidio
English suppression/reactions/mercantilism
-Navigation acts
Act of Trade and Plantations 1696. 2nd: 1660 Staple Act. 3rd: 1673
-purpose, enforcement, industries affected
Keep control and make more money from colonies. Affected Sugar, Tobacco & Agriculture.
-Impact of English Civil War - 1642
Americans were cut off from England supply lines so colonists traded with the Dutch and French.
-Sugar Act American Revenue Act - 1764
Lowered tax on molasses – British wanted to get money – colonists were smuggling instead of paying the
high tax.
-who sponsored, goal, industries affected
Prime Minister George Greenville
Affected sugar and molasses.
-consequences of violations
-why colonial resentment
-groups, leaders formed for resistance
Townshend Acts
-taxed what commodities
-how implemented
-author
Quartering Act
-purpose, how implemented
-result of noncompliance
Tea Act
-was part of what larger act
-in-depth knowledge of Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
-individual acts within
-English statesmen involved
-colonial response
War for Independence
-Declaration of Independence
-author, date, signers, origin in what group
-was everyone equal as stated
-knowledge of actual wording important
-Lexington and Concord
-what happened, results
-military leaders
-Paul Revere and William Dawes
-who were the Minute Men
-Trenton
-location, date
-how did Washington keep the British from following him
-British general
-Washington’s biggest problem throughout the war
-Yorktown
-location, date
-Washington’s strategy
-problems faced by Cornwallis
-European assistance
-countries, major personages and their impact
-peace negotiations
- who on each side, where
-specifics of the Treaty of Versailles
-evacuation of British from U.S.
Sources
-AMERICAN REVOLUTION by Gordon Wood
-OXFORD COMPANION TO US HISTORY
-THE GLORIOUS CAUSE by Middlekauf
-high school history texts