Out of Many Chapter 6 Outline

Key Terms: Covenant Chain, Plan of Union, Louisburg, 7 Years War, French and Indian War, Acadians, Treaty of Paris 1763, Proclamation of 1763, Treaty of Ft. Stanwik, Yankees, Lobsters, Whigs, Republicanism, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Declaratory Act, Revenue Act, sons of Liberty, Boston pamphlet, Coercive/Intolerable Acts

Key Historical Figures: Ben Franklin, William Pitt, Neolin, Chief Pontiac, Peter Zenger, John Locke, George Greenville, James Otis, Samuel Adams, Thomas Hutchinson, Charles Townshend, Ethan Allen

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Key Concepts:

Key Topics for Discussion:

  • What was the purpose of the Albany Congress? Who called it? What role did Franklin play? What was the outcome?
  • What was one of the greatest weaknesses of the British Empire?
  • What were the 3 principle flashpoints in North America?
  • Which side did native groups ally with? Why? How did groups like the Iroquois and Creeks survive?
  • Who ordered Washington’s expedition? What was the purpose? Outcome? What was the outcome of clashes in New York?
  • What British actions angered the colonists? Why had the British taken these actions?
  • What happened to the Acadians?
  • How did William Pitt change British strategy? What impact did this have on the colonies? What areas did the British conquer?
  • What was the outcome of the war?
  • After the war was over how did the British alter their policy towards the natives? What was the native response? What was the outcome?
  • What was the purpose of the Proclamation of 1763? What was the colonial response?
  • In what ways was the west a source of tension?
  • What impact did the French and Indian war have on Americans attitudes towards the British? How did colonial militias differ from the British army?
  • How did the war help foster a change in Americans identity?
  • What is the importance of the Zenger trial? How did the press help foster an “American identity”?
  • Understand the concept of Republicanism. How did it fit nicely in America?
  • Why did the British leave troops in the colonies? How did this lead to the Sugar Act?
  • How was the Sugar Act different from previous British taxes? Why did it create so much resistance amongst the colonists? Why did Greenville belive the taxes were fair?
  • Why did the Stamp Act create an even greater crisis?
  • Understand the concept of virtual representation and the colonial argument against it.
  • What type of colonist opposed the taxes the most vocally and why?
  • How many colonies sent delegates to the Stamp Act Congress? What resolutions were passed?
  • Why did the British repeal the Stamp Act? How did the British try to reassertion it's dominance?
  • What did John Dickinson argue? Why else did colonists fear Townshend?
  • What tactics were used to enforce the non-importation agreements?
  • What was the purpose of the Massachusetts Circular letter?
  • What tactics did the Sons of Liberty use to protest the British? What added to tensions between colonists and soldiers? What provoked the Boston Massacre? What was the British response? Why did they repeal the Townshend duties?
  • How did Thomas Hutchinson further aggravate the colonists in 1772?
  • What role did the Committees of Correspondence play? How was Franklin's reputation tarnished?
  • What provoked the Boston tea party?
  • Why was the British East India tea company in jeopardy? Why did the British believe theyneeded to save it? How did they plan to do this?
  • Who led the tea party in Boston? Who participated? Was it the ony one?
  • How did the Coercive Acts punish the colonists? What did the Quartering Act say? Why were the colonists so alarmed by the Quebec Act?
  • How did colonists respond to the Coercive Acts?
  • Who were some of the prominent delegates sent to the 1st Continental Congress? What did the congress declare? What tactics did they employ?
  • What was the purpose of the Committees of Observation and Safety? How had the British accidentally contributed to growing colonial cooperation and independence? How were loyalists restrained?
  • How did the Committee of Safety operate? Why were the British marching on Lexington and Concord? How did the fighting evolve?
  • How many colonies sent delegates to the 2nc Continental Congress? Why did Georgia eventually send delegates?
  • What were the political reasons behind the selection o George Washington? How were they going to finance the army?
  • Compare the Olive Branch Petition with the Declaration of Causes and Necessities?
  • What was the response to the conflict in the rest of the Americas?
  • Trace the course of hostilities in the north from 1775-1776.
  • What factors led to the Declaration of Independence? What role did "Common Sense" play? What was the process?