Name: _______________________
Date: ____________
Section: _________
So Many Things are Happening! Homework Assignments
Note: The questions at the end of these assignments in bold are the bigger
thinking questions. Those should be answered thoughtfully and completely.
Assignment One: The Great Awakening (pgs 123-124), Due: _________________
1. The Great Awakening was…
2. It happened during the ______________________.
3. Two major preachers of this time period were:
A.
B.
4. The Great Awakening had two major impacts on American religion:
A. (Who began to feel included in religion):
B. (How religion began to impact the spirit of individuality):
5. Infer: How do you think that this could begin to cause a religious split
with England? (Complete Sentence)
Assignment Two: Colonial Education (pgs 121-122), Due: _________________
1. What was the point of colonial education?
2. How did education differ between boys and girls?
3. How did education differ between upper and lower class children?
4. How did education differ for white and black children?
5. How is colonial education SIMILAR to modern education?
6. How is colonial education DIFFERENT from modern education?
Assignment Three: The French and Indian War (pgs 131-134), Due: ___________
Part One: Conflict in the Ohio River Valley
1. Why did the French begin building forts?
2. What happened in 1754?
Part Two: War Begins and Spreads
3. What event “officially” began the French and Indian War?
4. What was the Albany Plan of Union? Was it successful?
Part Three: Braddock’s Defeat
5. Why were Braddock and his men so badly defeated?
Part Four: The British Take Quebec
6. How did William Pitt help turn the tide of the war?
7. Why was the British victory at the Battle of Quebec significant?
Part Five: The Treaty of Paris
8. What document (and in what year) did the French and Indian War
officially end?
9. What was the result for the French?
Part Six: Pontiac’s Rebellion
10. How did Pontiac’s Rebellion encourage the British to pass the
Proclamation of 1763?
11. Infer: How do you think the Proclamation of 1763 could cause the
beginnings of a political split with England? (Complete sentence)
Assignment Four: Philosophy of Governmental (pgs 126-128, exclude the
section “A Royal Governor’s Rule), Due: _________________
1. How was the British Parliament organized?
2. How did colonists govern themselves?
3. What role did the British government have over colonial rule?
4. Why was King James unpopular?
5. What was the Glorious Revolution?
6. What rights did the English Bill of Rights grant?
7. Do those rights remind you of anything we have in America? What?
8. Define “salutary neglect.”
9. Infer: How do you think the Glorious Revolution and the English Bill of
Rights could cause the beginnings of a political split with England?
(Complete sentence)
Optional: This is an image of William
and Mary. Give them something to
say!