United States History: Unit Two Worksheet
Fully answer the following using the course outline, your textbook, and your class notes.
1.Describe the structure of colonial government. Explain how the colonial lower house assemblies managed to acquire such a dominant position within colonial governments.
2. Define mercantilism. What role did colonies play in the mercantile system?
3. Explain how the Navigation Acts were designed to insure that the colonies played their appropriate rolewithin the mercantile system. What were “enumerated products”?
4. How does the term “salutary neglect” describe British colonial policy between 1725 and 1763?
5. Identify the following:
a) Great War for Empire
b) General Edward Braddock
c) FortDuquesne
d) William Pitt
e) Treaty of Paris (1763)
6. Describe the major components of George Grenville’s fiscal policies towards the colonies. How did the colonists respond? How did Parliament respond to the colonial reaction?
7. Identify the following:
a) Pontiac’s Rebellion
b) Proclamation of 1763
c) Sugar Act
d) Stamp Act
e) virtual representation
8. Analyze the major components of American Republican Ideology. How did this ideology contribute to the coming of the American Revolution? How is it reflected in the Declaration of Independence?
9. How was the Stamp Act Crisis resolved? How did this resolution foreshadow future problems between America and the mother country?
10. Describe Charles Townshend’s colonial policy. How did the colonists respond? How did Parliament respond to the American response?
11. Identify the following:
a) Virginia Resolves and Second Virginia Resolves
b) “lamp of experience”
c) Boston Massacre
12. What was the intent of Lord North’s Tea Act? What were its practical consequences? How did the colonists manifest their displeasure with the legislation? How did the British react to this American response? How did the Americans perceive this British reaction?
13. Identify the following:
a) Boston Tea Party
b) Coercive/Intolerable Acts
14. Identify the following:
a) Declaration of American Rights
b) Suffolk Resolves
c)Battle of Lexington and Concord
d) Common Sense
e) Declaration of Independence
15. Identify the following:
a) General William Howe
b) Saratoga
c) Lord Charles Cornwallis
d) General George Washington
e) Articles of Confederation
16. How revolutionary was the American Revolution? (Be sure to include remarks on the status of women and blacks.)
17.How did the revolutionary experience shape the emergence of the United States both as a national andcultural entity?