SOCIAL STUDIES STUDY GUIDE – Chapter 2: Road to Independence
Lesson
Vocabulary
People, Places, Documents, etc.
2-1
-charter
-burgesses
-dissenters
-debtor colony
-Roanoke
-Mayflower Compact
-Powhatan Confederation
-Samuel de Champlain
-Act of Toleration
-Roger Williams
-Fundamental Orders of Conn.
-William Penn’s settlement
-New Netherland
(19)
2-2
(20)
2-3
(20)
2-4
(19)
-proprietary colony
-charter colony
-royal colony
-indentured servants
-slave codes
-subsistence farming
-triangular trade
-farming in New England
-Pennsylvania
-John Winthrop
-Benjamin Franklin
-The Great Awakening
-Education in the colonies
-The Navigation Acts
-militia
-boycott
-repeal
-committee of
correspondence
-French and Indian War
-Britain’s plan for getting out of debt
-Proclamation of 1763
-Stamp Act
-Sugar Act
-Tea Act
-Boston Tea Party
-Boston Massacre
-Coercive Acts/Intolerable Acts
-Lexington
-Continental Congress
-Preamble
-Loyalists
-Patriots
-natural rights
-guerilla warfare
-Thomas Paine and Common Sense
-Olive Branch Petition
-Declaration of Independence
-Battle of Saratoga
-Treaty of Paris
-Second Continental Congress
-Continental Army
2
Main Ideas (For all of the following, KNOW AND UNDERSTAND:)
In depth study, fact gathering, and 5 or more sentences.
*how the colonies of Rhode Island and Massachusetts differed.
*the last English colony to be established.
*the difference between the Middle Colonies and the New England Colonies.
ESSAY – Compare and contrast reasons the first colonies were established. (Discuss
similarities and differences the early colonies had in their origination) Include specific
examples.
*what led the Spanish to settle in North America.
*what the colonists of Virginia were hoping to find.
*how England influenced the early governments of the American colonies.
ESSAY – Discuss the role of the Great Awakening and explain how it changed the way
people thought. Include specific examples.
*what happened in 1774 involving the Continental Congress.
*why the British didn’t want colonists to move west on the Appalachians.
ESSAY - After reading about all the conflict in this section between Britain and the
early colonists, do you think that the Revolutionary War was really the only option,
or do you think that a peaceful resolution could have been reached? Choose a side
and use specific examples to support your decision.
*what battle ended the American Revolution.
*how the American Revolution led to a change in the way women thought.
*the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence.
*Jefferson’s inspiration when writing the Declaration of Independence.
ESSAY - Read pgs. 158-159 which discusses divisions in the colonies over going to
war with Britain for independence.
Choose a side FOR INDEPENDENCE or AGAINST
INDEPENDENCE. Formulate your reasons using the book, but not copying it. You
may quote important people in history if you would like.