Study Guide – Unit 2: Rise to Rebellion

 

Date Due

Assignment

Weds., Sept. 2

1. Read the following excerpts from Chapter 7:

p. 142-5 (bottom of page); p. 152-3 (from “After Chatham…” to “With this unlikely collection….”); p. 154 – 158 (from “As seen by the ministry….” to end of chapter)

2. Download and answer questions 1 – 4 of the Reading Questions

(When you see references to Chatham, it might help to know that that is William Pitt who was made the Earl of Chatham and was brought back in to head the government, but he was very ill and didn’t really control the government this time.)

Thurs., Sept. 3

1. Read p. 159 – 191

2. Answer questions 5 – 10. I’ve given the page numbers of where the material relating to those questions are.  Use those page numbers as a guide to help you to know where to concentrate your reading and where you can skim quickly in between those pages.

Fri., Sept. 4

Work Day in class today:

1. Read p. 198 – 213

2. Answer question 11

3. We will be preparing for the trial today.  You should have read and learned your role in the trial. 

4. Bring your battle materials to class to work on when you’re not preparing for the trial.

Tues., Sept. 8

Be prepared for the trial

Weds., Sept. 9

Be prepared for the trial

Thurs., Sept 10

1. Be prepared for the trial

2. Work on reading for Monday.

Mon., Sept. 14

1. Read the last paragraph on p. 225 - 226 and Chapter 11, p. 227 – 245

2. Answer questions 12 - 15

Tues., Sept. 15

1. Read p. 245 – 255 and p. 266 – 270 (to “Sitting in Boston,….”)

2. Answer questions 16 - 17

Weds., Sept. 16

1. Work on your battle presentation

2. I’m going to be talking about Lexington and Concord today.  If you want to read about it on your own, the book covers it on p. 270-79

Thurs., Sept. 17

1. Read p. 280 – 283

2. Answer questions 18 – 19

3. Read the Simulation and decide what your character would support.

Mon., Sept. 21

Keep working on your battle presentations.  You will get some part of the period to talk over your presentation plan with your partner so you might want to bring in some of your materials today.  You won’t be going to the computer lab, so keep that in mind.

Tues., Sept. 22

1. Work on your battle presentation

2. I’m going to be talking about Bunker Hill today.  If you want to read about it on your own, the book covers it on p. 280 - 298

Weds., Sept. 23

Today will be a workday in the Hex Lab to work on your battle projects.  Bring all your materials and meet in the lab.

Thurs., Sept. 24

1. Read Chapter 13 “Half a War”, Sections  V – VII, p. 298 – 309 and section IX, p. 314 - 317.

2. Answer questions 20 - 22

3. Start a list of the advantages and disadvantages of each side in the war.

4. Start thinking about what strategy you would recommend overall for each side in the best way to fight the war if you were the commander in chief of either army.  You will be making those recommendations in class.

Tues., Sept. 29

Keep working on your plan for your battle presentation

Weds., Sept. 30

Test today on Unit Two – Go to the Hex Lab

 

 

 

Questions and Themes for Unit Two: Rise to Rebellion

 

q       How did the American colonists organize against the Townshend Acts? What arguments were used?

q       Why was there such acrimony between the British soldiers and the Bostonians?

q       What did the First Continental Congress accomplish?

q       What was the response of the British to the Boston Tea Party?  Why did they choose to act the way they did?

q       What was decided at the Second Continental Congress?  What divisions were there in the Congress?

q       How did the colonists unite and organize against the British?

q       What advantages and disadvantages did the British and Americans have at the start of the war?

q       Why did the battles of Lexington and Concord turn out the way they do?

q       Why did the battle of Bunker Hill turn out the way it did?

q       Why did the attack on Quebec fail?

q       What did each side learn from these early battles?

 

Identifications – Chapters 7 - 14

 

These are terms, people, and events that you should be familiar with by the end of this unit.

 

1.

Virginia House of Burgesses

22.

Boston Massacre

42.

The Association

2.

Charles Townshend

23.

Captain Thomas Preston

43.

Lord Frederick North

3.

East India Company

24.

The Gaspee

44.

Paul Revere

4.

Townshend Acts

25.

Committees of Correspondence

45.

Major John Pitcairn

5.

Vice-Admiralty Courts

26.

Hutchinson letters

46.

Lexington and Concord

6.

John Dickinson

27.

Tea Act

47.

Second Continental Congress

7.

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania

28.

The Dartmouth

48.

Ethan Allen

8.

Nonimportation agreements

29.

Coercive/Intolerable Acts

49.

Ft. Ticonderoga

9.

Samuel Adams

30.

Boston Port Act

50.

Benedict Arnold

10.

Massachusetts Circular Letter

31.

Massachusetts Government Act

51.

General William Howe

11.

Sons of Liberty

32.

Impartial Administration of Justice Act

52.

General Henry Clinton

12.

John Hancock

33.

Quartering Act

53.

Israel Putnam

13.

The Liberty

34.

Quebec Act

54.

Col. William Prescott

14.

Customs commissioners

35.

First Continental Congress

55.

Bunker and Breed’s Hills

15.

“Glorious Ninety-Two”

36.

John Adams

56.

George Washington

16.

South Carolina Regulators

37.

Thomas Jefferson

57.

Sir Guy Carleton

17.

North Carolina Regulators

38.

A Summary View of the Rights of British America

58.

Attack on Canada

18.

Joseph Galloway

39.

Suffolk Resolves

59.

Richard Montgomery

19.

Committees of inspection/safety

40.

Dr. Joseph Warren

60.

Henry Knox

20.

General Thomas Gage

41.

Declaration of Rights

61.

American Prohibitory Act

21.

John Adams