APUSH Unit 2 Comps 2015
MARK YOUR Quiz and Test Dates on the CALENDAR NOW
“American Revolution and Young Republic”
American Pageant Chapters 5-8
SOL VUS 4a-c
Directions: Use this comps sheet as a study guide for both the Chapter/Vocab Quizzes and the Unit Test. You
should be able to discuss each of these topics, all vocabulary terms and how they relate to the course themes
before the test.
Chapter 5
1. Identify the factors that contributed to the growing numbers and wealth of the American colonists in the
18th century.
2. Explain the developments that tended to make society LESS equal and MORE hierarchical.
3. How is the Great Awakening linked to the development of a sense of American uniqueness and identity?
4. Identify the features of colonial politics that contributed to the development of popular democracy. What
kept political life from being truly democratic?
Chapter 6
5. In what ways were the American colonists involved in the home country’s struggle with France?
6. Why did most Indian peoples fight with the French against the British and its American colonists in the
French and Indian War?
7. Explain why Britain’s success in defeating the French empire led to failures in dealing with its colonial
subjects.
8. When the Seven Year’s War (French and Indian War) began, most American colonists were extremely
proud and happy to be British citizens but by the end of the war, they were not—even though Britain
was a more powerful empire at the end. Explain this.
Chapter 7
9. What central political ideas had colonial Americans developed by the 18th century that made them
deeply suspicious of centralized authority and fervent in defense of their rights?
10. Prior to the outbreak of violence in 1775, identify the nonviolent methods the colonists used in their
struggle against Britain and determine the relative success of these methods.
11. T chart** What advantages and disadvantages did the American rebels and the British each possess at
the beginning of the war. You may use a chart to show this…..maybe even take it straight from the SOL
ppt and commit it to memory!
12. At various times during the decade 1765-1775, the British government backed down and sought
compromise with the colonies. After the Boston Tea Party and the imposition of the Intolerable Acts,
was there any chance the war could have been avoided? Explain thoroughly.
Chapter 8
13. Why was the Battle of Saratoga a turning point in the Revolutionary War? Did this battle put the
Americans on a clear path to victory or only delay defeat? Support your response with solid evidence.
14. In what ways was the American Revolution a civil war among Americans as well as a fight between
Britain and those Americans seeking independence?
15. **Complete a T chart** and prepare to debate EITHER side in class.:“Even though it was necessary to
achieve American independence, the American alliance with the reactionary French monarchy
violated revolutionary ideals and demonstrated their impracticality was a basis for international
relations.”
(Affirmative Evidence for this Statement on the left of a T chart)
16. Negative Evidence for the statement in #15 on the right of a T chart
Unit 2 Vocabulary: (1-20 will be on CH 5/6 Quiz;
21-40 on the 7/8 Quiz)
1. Albany Conference
2. Pontiac’s Rebellion
3. Proclamation of 1763
4. Paxton Boys
5. Writs of Assistance
6. James Otis
7. Mercy Otis Warren
8. Stamp Act
9. Sons of Liberty
10. Committees of Correspondence
11. Intolerable Acts
12. Carolina Regulators
13. Second Continental Congress
14. Olive Branch Petition
15. Marquis de Lafayette
16. William Howe
17. Benedict Arnold
18. Robert Morris
19. Thomas Paine/Common Sense (it will be
ONE!)
20. Edmund Burke
21. Declaration of Independence
22. Abigail Adams
23. Disestablishment
24. Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
25. Tories
26. Hessians
27. General Charles Cornwallis
28. General John Burgoyne
29. George Rogers Clark
30. John Paul Jones
31. Saratoga
32. Kings Mountain
33. Phyllis Wheatley
34. Yorktown
35. Treaty of Paris, 1783
36. John Jay
37. Benjamin Franklin
38. Northwest Ordinance
39. Articles of Confederation
40. Newburgh Conspiracy
Reading Schedule/Assignment List
F 8/28 p.88-97;rv. 1-22
M 8/31 p. 97-103; rv.23-43
T 9/1 p.103-106; rv.44-52/CH:5 Comps/MC
W 9/2 CH:6 p. 109-116; rv. 1-22
X 9/3 p. 116-124; rv. 23-38/CH:6 Comps/MC
F 9/4 CH:7 p. 126-132; rv. 1-24
M 9/7 “Study for CH:5/6 Quiz”
T 9/8 p.132-139; rv. 25-37
W 9/9 p. 139-144; rv. 38-48/ CH:7 Comps/MC
X 9/10 CH: 8 p. 146-151; rv. 1-9
F 9/11 p. 151-157; rv. 10-20
M 9/14 p.157-164; rv. 21-32
T 9/15 p.164-168; rv. 33-38/CH:8 Comps/MC
W 9/16 REVIEW DAY Study for Ch: 7/8 QZ
and test
X 9/17 CH:7/8 QUIZ
F 9/18 UNIT 2 TEST/ Start CH:9 HW
Chapter Vocabulary to Analyze: Consult a
dictionary or other resource to define terms or
idiomatic expressions not fully explained in the
book
CH 5:
1. Pennsylvania Dutch
2. Scots-Irish
3. Great wagon road
4. Paxton Boys
5. Regulator Movement
6. M.G. Jean de Crevecoeur
7. Polyglot
8. “no tilted nobility…underclass”
9. Merchant princes
10. Almshouses
11. Red “P”
12. “poor whites”
13. New England slave traders
14. Bleeding
15. Cotton Mather (box)
16. Lawyer (as a profession)
17. Triangular trade
18. Trade imbalance
19. Molasses Act
20. Taverns as “cradle of democracy”
21. Green Dragon Tavern
22. Intercolonial postal system
23. Established Churches (see table)
24. College of William and Mary
25. Congregational Church
26. “neotrinity”
27. Franklin on religion (box)
28. Dead dogs
29. Arminianism
30. Great Awakening
31. Jonathan Edwards
32. George Whitefield
33. Old Lights
34. New Lights
35. Effects of the Great Awakening
36. Purpose of education
37. “birched”
38. University of PA
39. Colonial culture
40. John Trumbull
41. Phillis Wheatley
42. Poor Richards Almanack
43. Shackles of superstition
44. Colonial newspapers
45. Zenger trial
46. Libel
47. Royal and proprietary colonies
48. Ruling colonial clique
49. Self-taxation
50. Governor’s salary
51. Democratic seeds
52. Colonial entertainment
CH: 6
1. Seven Years War/ F and I War
2. Huguenots
3. Edict of Nantes
4. King Louis XIV
5. Huron Indians
6. New France
7. Coureurs de bois
8. Indian religious beliefs
9. Jesuits
10. Robert La Salle
11. War: King William and Queen Anne
12. (note table 6.1)
13. Utrecht 1713 terms
14. Deerfield raid (6.3)
15. Titus King (6.3)
16. War of Jenkin’s Ear
17. King George’s War
18. Ohio Valley
19. Colonial speculators
20. Fort Duquesne
21. George Washington
22. Acadians
23. French and Indian War
24. “America was conquered in Germany”
25. Albany Congress
26. Join or Die cartoon
27. Edward Braddock
28. William Pitt
29. James Wolfe
30. Battle of Quebec
31. Buckskin militia
32. “outhouses of civilization”
33. Golden traffic
34. Intercolonial disunity
35. Plains of Abraham
36. Pontiac’s uprising
37. Biological warfare
38. Proclamation of 1763
CH:7
1. republicanism
2. radical Whig ideas
3. political participation
4. mercantilism
5. Navigation law 1650
6. paper money
7. royal veto
8. John Hancock
9. Perpetual economic adolescence
10. PM George Grenville, 1763
11. Sugar Act 1764
12. Quartering Act 1765
13. Stamp Act 1765
14. admiralty courts
15. Edmund Burke
16. virtual representation
17. Stamp Act Congress 1765 NYC
18. nonimportation agreements
19. homespun
20. Sons and Daughters of Liberty
21. John Dickinson
22. tar and feathers
23. effigies
24. Declaratory Act
25. Townshend Acts
26. Crispus Attucks
27. King George III
28. Lord North
29. committees of correspondence
30. British East India CO.
31. Thomas Hutchinson
32. Boston Tea Party
33. Intolerable Acts
34. Quebec Act
35. First Continental Congress 1774
36. The Association
37. Lexington and Concord 1775
38. Hessians
39. Treaty of Westphalia, 1648
40. Ethnic complexity of Spanish America
41. “rich and powerful allies”
42. Tupac Amaru II
43. Marquis de Lafayette
44. “not worth a continental”
45. Valley Forge
46. Baron von Steuben
47. Lord Dunmore
48. Profits before patriotism
CH:8
1. Second Continental Congress
2. Moral force
3. Bunker/Breed’s Hill
4. Olive Branch Petition
5. Hessian flies
6. Benedict Arnold
7. Common Sense
8. “citizen Virtue”
9. Natural aristocracy
10. Richard Henry Lee
11. Declaration of Independence
12. “lives, fortunes and sacred honor”
13. Abigail Adams
14. Virginia Loyalists
15. Ethnic minorities who supported the British
16. Black Loyalist
17. White Loyalist
18. Tories and Whigs
19. William Franklin
20. Loyalist exodus
21. Battle of Long Island
22. Leutze painting p. 158
23. Trenton 12/26/76
24. “Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne”
25. SARATOGA, 1777**
26. Novus ordo seculorum: explain it, don’t just
translate it!
27. Model Treaty
28. Voltaire
29. Armed Neutrality
30. Rochambeau
31. Kings Mountain and Cowpens
32. Gen Nathaniel Greene
33. Native American alliances
34. George Rogers Clark
35. privateers
36. Yorktown
37. Treaty of Paris, 1783
38. “recommendations for treatment of
Loyalists”
Unit 2 QUIZ Vocab:
1. These regulations were passed in 1774 in
response to the Boston Tea Party, and
included the Boston Port Act, which shut
down Boston Harbor; the Massachusetts
Government Act, which disbanded the
Boston Assembly, the Quartering Act,
which required the colony to provide
housing and provisions for British soldiers;
and the Administration of Justice Act, which
removed the power of colonial courts to
arrest royal officers
2. This mob of Pennsylvania frontiersmen
massacred a group of non-hostile Indians.
3. This British General evacuated Boston
harbor with 1,000 American Loyalists.
4. This pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine,
was instrumental in turning public opinion
in favor of the Revolution.
5. This conservative British politician was
generally sympathetic to the colonists'
grievances and felt that Britain's colonial
policies were misguided.
6. Although he was a General in the
Continental Army and instrumental the
victory at Saratoga, he is remembered as the
most famous traitor in American history.
7. This first direct tax on colonists was so
unpopular that it caused riots. Because of
this colonial opposition (and the decline in
British imports caused by the nonimportation movement) London merchants
convinced Parliament to repeal it in 1766.
8. This 1754 meeting was an attempt to get the
English colonies to act in union to negotiate
terms with the Indians. Ultimately, the
meeting did not produce the desired results,
but it did provide a framework for what
would later become the Articles of
Confederation.
9. This delegate to the Second Continental
Congress agreed that Britain had treated the
colonies unfairly, but he did not believe that
the colonies should dissolve ties with
Britain. Although he first argued against the
Declaration of Independence, he eventually
signed it and became the chief financier
behind the colonial armies.
10. These were the first government-organized
organizations that the colonies created in
order to exchange information and organize
protests to British trade regulations.
11. This was a colonial lawyer who defended
(usually for free) colonial merchants who
were accused of smuggling.
12. This was a 1763 uprising after the French
and Indian War, by Indians who opposed
British expansion into the western Ohio
Valley.
general) were the two major foreign military
experts who helped train the colonial armies.
16. The British government drew this imaginary
line along the Appalachian Mountains and
forbade their colonists from settling west of
it. It also required any settlers already living
west of the mountains to move back east.
You must include the year for full credit.
17. These were groups of Southern vigilantes
who organized to fight outlaw bands along
the Western frontier in 1767-1769, and who
disbanded when regular courts were
established in those areas.
18. This group met in 1776, drafted and signed
the Declaration of Independence, which
justified the Revolutionary War and
declared that the colonies should be
independent of Britain.
19. This 19th century American historian wrote
a three volume history of the American
Revolution.
20. This was a radical political organization for
colonial independence which formed in
1765 after the passage of the Stamp Act.
With leaders such as Sam Adams and Paul
Revere, the group incited riots and burned
the customs houses where the stamped
British paper was kept.
13. These were search warrants issued by the
British government that allowed officials to
search houses and ships for smuggled goods
with or without reasonable cause.
21. This British general was defeated by
American General Horatio Gates at the
Battle of Saratoga and surrendered the entire
British Army of the North.
14. The colonies made this final offer of peace
to Britain, agreeing to be loyal to the British
government if it addressed their grievances.
King George rejected it and declared the
colonies in “open and avowed rebellion.”
22. An African domestic in the colonies, and a
well-known colonial poet, her poetry was
ornate and elaborate.
15. This was the French major general who
aided the colonies during the Revolutionary
War. He and Baron von Steuben (a Prussian
23. This major success of the very first
American government set up the framework
for government and provided that the NW
Territory would be divided into 3 to 5 states.
It outlawed slavery in the territory and set
60,000 as the minimum population for
statehood.
24. During the Revolutionary War, she wrote
letters to her husband describing life on the
home front and urged her husband to
“remember the ladies” in the new
government he was helping to create.
25. This was the battle which ended all major
fighting in the Revolutionary War.
26. These were German mercenaries who fought
for the British.
27. This British general surrendered to the
Continental Army on October 19, 1781,
which ended all major fighting in the
Revolutionary War.
28. This term simply refers to the process of
removing any state or government
recognition or preferential treatment of a
specific religion. It is the fundamental
concept behind “separation of Church and
State.”
29. This was the nickname Revolutionaries gave
Loyalists.
30. This battle was the turning point of the
Revolutionary War. After this victory for the
colonists, France recognized the colonies’
independence.
31. This government plan for an independent
America delegated most powers (to tax, to
regulate trade, and to draft troops) to the
individual states, but left the federal
government power over war, foreign policy,
and issuing money.
32. This was an important Patriot victory along
the North Carolina-South Carolina border.
33. This soldier from Virginia helped secure
victory over the British in the northwestern
territory.
34. This person was one of three delegates who
negotiated the peace treaty after the
American Revolution. He also wrote some
of the Federalist Papers and would later
serve as the first Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court.
35. This person was not only one of the most
capable American diplomats, but was a
printer, author, inventor, statesman, and
illustrious Founding Father who still graces
the 100 dollar bill. In his time, he was one of
the few “Americans” who was respected in
Europe.
36. Written by Thomas Jefferson, this document
outlawed state support and recognition of
any church and called for “separation of
Church and State.”
37. This agreement officially ended the
revolutionary war. It recognized the
independence of the American colonies and
set the borders as the southern border of
Canada to the northern border of Florida and
the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean.
38. This person was a naval officer during the
Revolutionary War. The British sank his
ship, the Bonhomme Richard, but he
managed to board and capture the British
ship, the Serapis.
39. This event took place after the war when officers
of the Continental Army met in NY to complain
to Congress about not being paid. There was talk
of a coup and seizure of the new government
until George Washington spoke to them and
shamed them into aborting the plot.
40. This document dissolved the colonies’ ties
with Britain, listed grievances against King
George III, and declared the colonies to be
an independent nation. Include the month,
day and year.