Terms-Chapters 5-9
Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution (Chapter 5)
This chapter continues the discussion of Colonial society & structure. Many elements of an American way of life become evident as the divisions between American and British become deeper. This chapter will set the stage for many of the cultural foundations for the separation of the American Colonies from their
British motherland.
Question to Ponder
1.
At what point do colonial settlers become “American” rather than British? (Hint: it may or may not be in this chapter, but it’s worth thinking about now.)
2.
For the period before 1750, analyze the ways in which Britain’s policy of salutary neglect influenced the development of American society as illustrated in the following: legislative assemblies, commerce, and religion. (former FRQ)
3.
How democratic was colonial American society? Why was it apparently becoming less equal?
4.
What were the causes and effects of the Great Awakening? How did such an intense religious revival affect those who experienced “conversion” as well as those who did not?
Chapter 5 Terms
German population
Scot-Irish population disparity of wealth status of professions triangular trade shift in colonial markets
Molasses Act role of tavern
“established” church
William & Mary College
Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield old light/new light education system
John Trumbull
Charles Wilson Peale
Phillis Wheatly
Benjamin Franklin newspaper
John Peter Zenger trial
Colonial political structure voting regulations entertainment
Chapters 6-7
These chapters show the dramatic chain of events from Great Britain’s attempt to impose its new imperialism on North America to the “shot heard around the world.” These chapters give us the basis of the grand ideas which form the Founding Era of America.
Chapter 6 Terms
Frances’ holdings in America
Samuel de Champlain
New Frances’ economy
Jesuits
Treaty of Utrect salutary neglect
War of Jenkins Ear
King George’s War/consequences of
Ft. Duquesne
Robert de La Salle Ft. Necessity
King William/Queen Anne’s War French and Indian War/Seven Years War
Albany Congress
Chapter 7 Terms republicanism
Whigs
Mercantilism
Navigation Laws
Stamp Act Congress
non-importation agreement
Declaratory Act
Townshend Acts
Other restrictions on colonists Boston Massacre (3/5/1770)
George Grenville Committees of Correspondence
Sugar Act Samuel Adams
Intolerable Acts
Quebec Act
Continental Congress
The Association
Lexington and Concord
Hessians
Marquis de Lafayette

Quartering Act
Stamp Act
British East India Company
Boston Tea Party
“no taxation without representation”
Cause and Effect
Valley Forge
Baron von Steuben
African American involvement
Chronologically plot the key events that led to the American Revolution on the time line below.
1763_________1765_________1766__________1767__________1770__________1773-1775_________1776
Chapters 8-9 Terms
When hostilities began in 1775, the colonists were still fighting for their rights as British citizens within the empire, but in 1776 they declared their independence, based on a proclamation of universal, “self-evident” truths. Inspired by revolutionary idealism, they also fought for an end to monarchy and the establishment of a free republic.
Chapter 8 Terms
Second Continental Congress
George Washington
Ticonderoga/Crown Point
Bunker Hill
Olive Branch Petition
Hessians
Thomas Paine
Common Sense republic citizen virtue
Declaration of Independence
Loyalist
Patriot
General Howe
Trenton
General Burgoyne
Baron von Steuben
Saratoga alliance with France world-wide war
Nathanael Green
Indians during war
Treaty of Fr. Stanwix
John Paul Jones
Yorktown
John Jay
Treaty of Paris 1783
The American Revolution was not a radical transformation like the French or Russian revolutions, but it did produce political innovations and some social change in the direction of greater equality and democracy. The federal Constitution represented a moderately conservative reaction against the democratic and decentralizing effects of the Revolution and Articles of Confederation. In effect, it embedded the revolutionary ideals of liberty and popular government within a strong framework designed to advance national identity and interests against the dangers of fragmentation and disorder.
Chapter 9 Terms
Society of the Cincinnati status of slaves civic virtue republican motherhood
Northwest Ordinance
Land Ordinance of 1785
Land Ordinance of 1787
Virginia Plan weakness of Articles of Confederation New Jersey Plan
Great Compromise
Electoral College state constitutions economic situation
Articles of Confederation
Shay’s Rebellion
Constitutional Convention
James Madison three-fifths compromise slave trade
Federalist/Anti-Federalist
“The Federalist” (Papers)