US History
Topic 3 Study Guide
Notes: From Empire to Independence; Taxes, Tyranny and a Tenacious Defense of American Rights; The Road to
Independence in Blood and Ink; “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory”; A Rabble in Arms; Washington’s Secret War; Turning the
World Upside Down; Blatant Hypocrisy or Social Revolution?
Readings: Don’t Know Much About History packets; Choices – A More Perfect Union; Choices – Moment of Decision,
February 1776; David McCullough’s 1776
Names to Know
 King George III
 James Otis
 Daniel Boone
 George Grenville
 John Locke
 Patrick Henry
 Samuel Adams
 Crispus Attucks
 John Adams
 Abigail Adams
 General Thomas Gage
 Paul Revere
 William Dawes
 Prince Estabrook
 George Washington
 John Dickinson
 General John Burgoyne
 Benjamin Franklin
 Thomas Paine
 Thomas Jefferson
 Levi Preston
 Molly Pitcher
 Deborah Sampson
 Judith Sargent
 Baron Friedrich von Steuben
 Joseph Brandt
 Nathaniel Greene
 Benedict Arnold
 Marquis de Lafayette
 General Charles Cornwallis
 John Hancock
 Joseph Warren
 Henry Knox
 Banastre Tarleton
 George Mason
Vocabulary
 Nationalism
 Profiteering
 Hessians
 Continental Association
 “writs of assistance”
 Egalitarianism
 Martial Law
 Despotism
 Manumission
 Minutemen
 Loyalist
 Duties
 Committees of Correspondence
Concepts
 Colonial feelings after the French & Indian War
 “writs of assistance”
 problems after the Peace of Paris (1763) for the British empire
 Proclamation of 1763
 Problems of imperial finances and Grenville’s efforts to change
 Sugar Act, 1764
 Stamp Act, 1765
 Quartering Act, 1765
 martial law
 effect of John Locke’s theories of government
 response to the Stamp Act in the colonies
 Virginia Resolves
 Parliament’s Declaratory Act
 Sons of Liberty
 Boston Massacre
 Tea Act of 1773 and the Boston Tea Party
 Committees of Correspondence
 Coercive Acts, or “Intolerable Acts”
 Second Continental Congress
 Declaration of American Rights
 Continental Association
 effects of “the shot heard round the world” (Lexington & Concord)
 effects of the Battle of Bunker Hill
 Olive Branch Petition
 Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
 effects of Common Sense and American Crisis
 Declaration of Independence – influences?
 possible reasons for the Revolution
 effects of Saratoga
 Valley Forge
 challenges faced by Continental Army and Continental Congress
 Patriots and Loyalists
 British difficulties – why?
 Militias and the Continental Army – purpose, difficulties, etc.
 effects of frontier fighting with the Iroquois Federation
 reasons for British failure in the South
 British dominance at sea – effect?
 Peace of Paris (1783)
 revolution as an outlet for social frustrations
 Egalitarianism
 property qualifications for voting
 British as instrument of emancipation
 Manumission
 effect of the Revolution on women
 women’s voices for change
 “On the Equality of the Sexes” (1779)
 American Revolution truly a social revolution?
 tools of nationalism
 American revolution as inspiration for other revolutions
Short Answer (1-2 paragraphs)
 John Locke’s theories and the resistance to taxation
 Reasons for the American victory in War
 American Revolution – a true social revolution?
Loyalist Wedgie!