United States History I
Mr. Concannon Smith
STUDY GUIDE:
Unit 2
The Road to Revolution
Essential Questions:
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What was the impact on the colonies of the French and Indian War, including how
the war led to an overhaul of British imperial policy from 1763 to 1775?
How did Massachusetts take a leadership role in the years leading to the Revolution?
Were American revolutionaries patriots or traitor/terrorists?
Was the primary cause of the Revolution ideological or economic?
Were the Revolutionaries fighting for change or to maintain the status quo in the
Colonies?
How did the French and Indian War lead to the American Revolution?
Key Concepts, Terms, and People:
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The French and Indian War
Salutary Neglect
mercantilism
merchant elites
Navigation Acts
militia
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation Line 1763
Sugar Act of 1764
Stamp Act 1765
Declaratory Act 1766
Townshend Acts 1768
Quartering Acts
The Tea Act 1773
The Boston Tea Party 1773
The Intolerable (Coercive Acts)
o Boston Port Act
o MA Govt. Act.
British War Debt
boycott
non-importation agreements
Boston Massacre 1770
“no taxation without
representation”
First Continental Congress
Second Continental Congress
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Common Sense
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Olive Branch Petition
patriots and loyalists
minute men
Declaration of Independence
social contract and natural rights
preamble
effigy burning
mob protests
liberty tree
committees of correspondence
Sons of Liberty
People
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Samuel Adams
John Adams
Abigail Adams
General/ Royal Governor Gage
Thomas Hutchinson
Stamp tax collectors
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Thomas Paine
Benjamin Franklin
Paul Revere
Samuel Prescott
William Dawes
Essay Topic: The use of propaganda in pre-Revolutionary America.