APUSH August 25-29
Monday Unit One Test
Tuesday DBQ How To Session during class as we look at the sample documents in small groups and discuss the differences between AP Euro DBQ's and those for APUSH. Tonight complete your DBQ worksheet on the documents which we worked on today. The thesis and bulleted list of items you will include in each paragraph are very important. Make decisions about how you will compare these regions before you complete your thesis or paragraph information. Make sure your thesis addresses the time period and question carefully. Read the directions carefully! Report to class tomorrow with your documents A-H, your worksheet and the chart comparing the New England colonies to the Chesapeake colonies( you received this last Friday as a study quide for the Unit One test).
Wednesday - We will complete the DBQ session and turn in your work.
Review your information from Chapter 4 on the impact/effects of the French and Indian War.
How did the relationship between the colonists and the British change as a result of this war? Remember Zinn's chapter "Tyranny is Tyranny". Did you read it?
Tyranny and the American RevolutionBegin reading at page 163- Some information will overlap from last Friday.
Cause and Consequences of French and Indian War (1754-1763)
Edward Braddock
William Pitt
George Washington
Battle of Quebec
Albany Plan of Union
Benjamin Franklin
Treaty of Paris (1763)
Proclamation of 1763
Pontiac’s Rebellion 1763
American Colonial Economic Issues
Salutary Neglect
Navigation Acts/Laws (1660-1665)
Revenue- money taken through taxation
writs of assistance
Sugar act
Stamp Act (1765)
Boycotts
Townshend Acts
Major Events
Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams
Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
Gaspee Incident
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts aka Coercive Acts
Port Act (closed Boston Harbor)
Quartering Act (colonies pay for supplies/needs of the British soldiers)
Prohibited Town Meetings
First Continental Congress
Patriots
Loyalists
Lobsterbbacks
internal taxes
direct representation virtual representation
Patrick Henry
Lord North
Committees of Correspondence
Apathetic Observers
Lexington /Concord
Bunker Hill
Second Continental Congress
Continental Army/George Washington-Commander
Common Sense- Thomas Paine (Jan. 1776)
Olive Branch Petition
King George III
Declaration of Independence (July 1776)
Thomas Jefferson
John Locke/Thomas Hobbs- Social Contract/Natural Rights
Enlightenment Philosophy
The War (1776-1783)
Major Battles
Trenton/Princeton
Hessians (German mercenaries sent to fight for Britain))
Saratoga
French Intervention
Supplies/Money
Diplomacy
Fighting in the West
George Rogers Clark-implications of his presence
Fighting in the South
Nathaniel Greene
Yorktown
Admiral de Grass (French)
General Cornwallis (British)
General Washington (American)
The Peace
Treaty of Paris (1783)
-Independence won
-Borders set
-British troops were to be removed from the Western Territories
-Loyalists were be compensated for losses
Impact of the American Revolution
Minorities
Women
African-Americans
Native Americans
Concept of Liberty
Essay Possibilities
a) Which do you believe to be the more important causes of the Revolution, economic issues or political issues? Discuss your choice.
Economic Issues would include: Tax policy, trade issues, monopolies, taxation without representation etc….
Political Issues would include: power, local control (home rule), weakening of the British following Fr. and Ind. War
Social Issues would include the new American, detachment from Great Britain and Europe as a whole, a very optimistic view of their future without British rule.
b) Explain how Americans gained their independence despite the disadvantages. Include military and diplomatic obstacles.
c) Analyze how the Enlightenment influenced American views of government. Use as examples the literature of the time period.
d) What were the consequences of the Treaty of Paris for America, Britain, France, minority populations in America, religious institutions (disestablishment of the Anglican Church)?
The EOCT will have questions taken from the Georgia Performance Standards. Please add this site to your favorites after you click on Social Studies Grades 9-12 and then US History.
http://www.georgiastandards.org