3.1 KEY CONCEPTS ( Revolutionary War and its Causes)

Question 1

3.1.1.A: What were the factors that caused the Seven Years’ War?

Answer 1

Colonial rivalry intensified between the British and the French as British colonies expanded into the interior of North America where the French were. Therefore, threatening French-Indian Trade networks and American Indian autonomy

Question 2

What was the result of the Seven Years War for Britain and what did these effects foreshadow?

Answer 2

• Achieved a massive expansion of its territorial holdings
• Britain fell into extreme debt which set the stage for many taxes and attempts to consolidate control over the British colonies

Question 3

What were some attempts by the British to raise revenue Over the colonies?

Answer 3

• Sugar Act 1764
• Stamp Act 1765
• Townshend Acts 1767
• Tea Act 1773

Question 4

What was an attempt by the British to prevent colonists from moving westward?

Answer 4

The Land Proclamation Act of 1763

Question 5

What were ways that the Native Americans resisted the encroachments of colonists on tribal land?

Answer 5

Pontiac’s Rebellion

Question 6

What were ways the colonists united against perceived and real constraints n their economic and political rights?

Answer 6

• Organized boycotts of British goods
• Formation of organizations
• Protests and Petitions
• Boston Tea Party

Question 7

What are some examples of colonial boycotts against British imperial rule?

Answer 7

• Sons of Liberty
• Spinning Bees

Question 8

What are some examples of protests and petitions against British colonial rule?

Answer 8

• Stamp Act Congress
• Suffolk Resolves

Question 9

What were some examples of formed organizations against colonial rule?

Answer 9

• Continental Congress
• Committees of Correspondence

Question 10

What was the Suffolk Resolves?

Answer 10

A series of declarations passed in town hall meetings in response to the Intolerable Acts

Question 11

What were some ideas of the Enlightenment that sparked the American Revolution?

Answer 11

• Natural Rights
• Popular Sovereignty
• Separation of Powers

Question 11

What did colonial leaders base their calls for resistance to Britain on?

Answer 11

• Their rights as British citizens
• The rights of the individual
• local-traditions of self-rule
• Ideas of the Enlightenment

Question 12

Who were some examples of colonial leaders that energized the effort for American Independence?

Answer 12

• Benjamin Franklin
• Samuel Adams
• George Washington

Question 13

What were some ways that men and women in colonial societies mobilized in large numbers to provide financial aid and material support for the Patriot movement?

Answer 13

• Many women managed farms, businesses, and joining the army camps

Question 14

What were the factors that led to the colonists winning the Revolutionary War?

Answer 14

• The actions of colonial militias & the Continental Army
• George Washington’s military leadership
• The colonists ideological commitment and resilience
• The alliance with France

Question 14

What were some factor that the colonists had to overcome to win the Revolutionary War?

Answer 14

• What were some factor that the colonists had to overcome to win the Revolutionary War?

Question 15

How did religion impact American people immediately after winning the Revolutionary War?

Answer 15

It made them feel they were people blessed with liberty which would later be shown in Manifest Destiny

Question 16

What was an Enlightenment idea that inspired many American political thinkers to value individual talent over hereditary privilege?

Answer 16

Liberalism

Question 17

Where are the colonists’ belief in the superiority of a Republican form of government based on the natural rights of the people found?

Answer 17

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence

Question 18

How did the Declaration of Independence continue to impact American society throughout American history?

Answer 18

They continued to shape Americans’ understanding of the ideals on which the nation was based.
- Used in slavery with Gettysburg Address

Question 19

What was an effect of increased awareness of inequalities in society after the Revolutionary War?

Answer 19

Groups that called for:
- Abolition of slavery
- Greater political democracy

Question 20

What were some groups that called for abolition of slavery after the Revolutionary War?

Answer 20

The Pennsylvania Abolition Society

Question 21

What were some impacts of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society?

Answer 21

The Passage of the Pennsylvania Gradual Emancipation Act of 1780

Question 22

Why did more African Americans fight for the British than the Patriots in the Revolutionary War?

Answer 22

Dunmore’s Proclamation

Question 23

What was an example of a state that eliminated property requirements for voting after the Revolutionary War?

Answer 23

Pennsylvania

Question 24

When did most states eliminate property requirements for voting?

Answer 24

1820s and 1830s

Question 25

What factors led to the “republican motherhood” gaining popularity?

Answer 25

- Women’s participation in the American Revolution - Enlightenment ideas - Women's’ appeals for expanded roles

Question 26

What did Republican Motherhood call on?

Answer 26

Women to teach republican values within the family and granted women a new importance in American political culture

Question 27

What were some Enlightenment ideas that women applied to their own calls for expanded rights?

Answer 27

Liberty, Independence, and pursuit of happiness

Question 28

What is an example of a future woman's’ right event that utilized the rhetoric of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 28

Seneca Falls Convention of 1848

Question 29

What are some global examples of ways the American Revolution impacted the entire world?

Answer 29

- French Revolution + DOROMAC - Haitian Revolution + Toussaint Loventure - Latin American Revolution + Simón Bolivar

Question 30

What was a way new state governments tried to limit tyrannical rule?

Answer 30

By limiting the power of the executive branch and putting it in the hands of the legislative branch in new state constituions

Question 31

What were some examples of ways politicians limited the power of the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 31

- 1 Branch government - No Executive Branch - No National court - Changes to the Articles required unanimous consent of all states - Each state retained its freedom

Question 32

What were factors that led for calls for a stronger central government?

Answer 32

- Difficulties over international trade - Finances - Interstate Commerce - Foreign Relations - Internal Unrest

Question 33

What were specific financial problems with the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 33

- Congress could not impose taxes and the US economy needed to raise money - States printed their own money which led to inflation - States could levy tariffs on other states

Question 34

What were some examples of foreign policy problems under the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 34

- British armed forts like Fort Miami in the west and armed Natives - Spain banned American shipping along the Mississippi

Question 34

What are some benefits of the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 34

- Got the colonists through the American Revolution - Created Northwest Ordinances to outline process of statehood

Question 35

How did the Northwest Ordinances foreshadow sectional tensions?

Answer 35

States added by it would be free states while new states would be added in the south as slave states

Question 36

What was an internal uprising that exposed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 36

- Shay’s Rebellion

Question 37

What was the context of Shay’s Rebellion?

Answer 37

- Many farmers were in debt in the 1780s - Daniel Shay attempted to start a movement to lighten the taxes, stop the foreclosures of farm, etc