Here's my first draft of the Review for our final on Thursday. Please check back periodically as I will edit this, as well, as add the choices for the essay questions.
- The "headright" system
- Factors leading to Bacon's Rebellion?
- Significance of Bacon's Rebellion
- African slaves vs. indentured servants
- The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony
- Significance of Roger Williams
- Characteristics of the Restoration colonies
- The overthrow of James II in the Glorious Revolution affected the colonies in which way?
- During the seventeenth century, at least three-fourths of the immigrants who came to the Chesapeake region…
- Historian Edmund S. Morgan argued that the institutionalization of African slavery in America reflected…what?
- The most numerous of the non-English immigrants were who?
- Characteristics of the colony of Pennsylvania
- Problems effecting colonial commerce
- Reasons for the decline of piety in colonial America
- The Great Awakening... reasons and characteristics
- Purpose of the Albany Conference (1754)
- Reason for the English decision to reorganize the British Empire after 1763
- Feeling by the colonists after the French and Indian War
- Problem facing the Brit. gov’t after the French & Indian War
- The purpose of the Proclamation Line of 1763
- Problems facing Geo III
- British policies after 1763 generally were…
- The Sugar and Stamp acts were designed chiefly to
- Colonies main objection to the Stamp Act
- Townshend believed that colonists would not protest his taxes because…
- Attempts by the colonies to unify
- The objectives of the Committees of Correspondence
- Purpose of the Tea Act of 1773
- The Quebec Act angered colonists because…
- Virtual vs. actual representation by Parliament
- The event leading to the passage of the Intolerable Acts
- Conditions of the Intolerable Acts
- Common Sense
- Know the chronology of the acts placed upon the colonies
- Advantages British had during the Revolutionary War
- Summarize the move for independence by Americans
- The Declaration of Independence accomplished…
- Which of the following was NOT a step taken by the First Continental Congress?
- Characteristics and accomplishments of the First Continental Congress
- Area where the fighting first occurred
- Successes under the Articles of Confederation
- What took place after the battles of Lexington and Concord
- Loyalists
- Bunker Hill
- Conditions that contributed to Continental soldiers' discontent
- In gaining foreign support, the "US" must prove what to those foreign nations who were will to assist?
- Main way the Congress funded the war
- Saratoga
- Provisions of the Peace of Paris
- Cause of Shays' Rebellion
- Characteristics of state constitutions
- Understand the debates during the Constitutional Conventions and where there was conflict
- The Constitution's most distinctive feature
- Ways the Constitution prevented "excess of democracy.
- Be familiar with the wording of the Declaration of Independence
- What groups supported a stronger central government
Choose one of the essays below, and write the best essay of your life!
- Analyze how the ideas and experiences of the revolutionary era influenced the principles embodied in the Articles of Confederation.
- Analyze the ways in which the political, economic and diplomatic crises of the1780s shaped the provisions of the United States Constitution.
- “The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.”
Explain the meaning of this 1818 statement by John Adams and assess its validity.
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