general

Question 1

Key concept 3.1

Independence Movement

Answer 1

• Colonies wanted freedom from British control.
• Restluted in colonial independence movement and the Revolutionary war
• Patriots won with militias, Washington, and help from Europe.

Question 2

Key concept 3.2

Revolutionary Ideas

Answer 2

New ideas from Enlightenment and religion.
- Republicanism in Common Sense and Declaration.
- After Revolution, calls for freedom and more democracy.
- “Republican Motherhood” highlighted women’s role.

Question 3

Key concept 3.3

Migration and Conflict

Answer 3

• People moved west with rules like the Northwest Ordinance.
  
  • Ordinance supported education, protected property, and banned slavery.

Question 4

Bitish Attempts for Control

Polocies and Impact

Answer 4

Policies
- Trade regulations (Navigation, Sugar)
- Taxation Acts ( Currency, Stamp, Quartering, Townshend, Tea, Intolerable, )

Impact on Colonies
- Growing resentment
- Increased colonial unity

Question 5

Colonial Resolve for Self Gov’t

Responses and Key Figures

Answer 5

Colonial Responses
- Protests (Boycotts, sons of liberty, boston tea party, first continental congress)
- Formation of colonial assemblies

Key Figures
- James Maddison, Patrick Henry, Mercy Otis Warren, “Remember the Ladies” Abigail Adams

Question 6

Colonial independence movement

Factors and Early Signs

Answer 6

Factors leading to indepedence
- Influence of Enligtenment ideas
- Discontent (unhappy) w british rule

Early signs of resistance
- “Remeber the Ladies” Abigail Adams
- Emergence of revolutionary ideas (Bill of rights, thomas paine pamphlet, common sense)

Question 7

leading up to Revolutionary war

Key Events and Leaders

Answer 7

Key Events
- Battles (lexington and concord, bunker hill, sratoga, yorktown)
- Declaration of Independence

Key leaders
- James Maddison, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton