Period 3, Unit 3 Review Guide
Term to Know
1. Bread colonies
2. land speculation
3. triangular trade
4. Molasses Act of 1733
5. Anglican Church
6. Congregationalist Church
7. established church
8. bicameral legislature
9. upper house
10. lower house
11. “power of the purse”
12. King George’s War
13. Queen Anne’s War
14. Louisbourg
15. Albany Plan of Union
16. Fort Necessity
17. Pontiac’s Rebellion
18. Proclamation of 1763
19. Navigation Acts
20. Sugar Act of 1764
21. Quartering Act of 1765
22. Stamp Act of 1765
23. Tea Act of 1773
24. Intolerable Acts or Coercive
Acts
25. Boston Massacre
26. Boston Tea Party
27. Lexington and Concord
Key Concepts
Society before the Revolution
1. How did colonial society change with regards to wealth and class structure, especially in the Southern
States?
2. Briefly describe the economies and trade of colonial America, being careful to point out the regional
differences.
3. Describe the early trade relationship between Great Britain and the American colonies.
4. Describe religion in colonial America? What effect did the Great Awakening have on society before the
revolution?
5. Describe colonial government before the revolution? Who imposed taxes, who made decisions, and
how were the people represented?
French and Indian War
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How did conflicts prior to the French and Indian War change the landscape of the American colonies?
What was the American colonist’s role in starting and fighting in the French and Indian War?
What impact did the French and Indian War have on the landscape of North America?
What impact did the French and Indian War have on colonial society, in particular the relationship with
the British?
Road to Revolution
10. What is mercantilism and how does it define the relationship between colonies and their parent country?
11. How did British economic policies towards America change after the French and Indian War? What
was the reason for the change?
12. Describe the timeline of taxes that eventually led to the Boston Massacre?
13. Why was the Boston Tea Party a pivotal moment in the American Revolution?
14. Be sure to understand the relative strengths and weaknesses of the American and British forces in the
American Revolution?