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Quarter Two: Quiz One Study Guide

Forging a New Nation

Essential Questions:

·  What are the principal ideas of the Declaration of Independence?

·  How were the Americans able to defeat the British?

·  Was the American Revolution truly revolutionary for all people?

Objectives:

Students should be able to:

1. summarize the content of the Declaration of Independence.

2. explain how the Declaration of Independence was used to defend the right to revolution and a statement of American

principles of government.

3. compare the Americans to the British on how prepared they were to fight the Revolutionary War.

4. explain the significance of important battles of the American Revolution.

5. identify and describe major turning points during the American Revolution.

6. explain the contributions of military and political leaders in the Revolutionary War effort.

7. describe the contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and women to the Revolutionary War.

8. identify the results of the Treaty of Paris.

Assignments and Notes Section:

*Papers from First Quarter: Historiography Notes, PROP Method, and Moving Towards Independence (anticipation guide on the Continental Congress meeting to declare independence)

·  Activity sheet: Decoding the Declaration of Independence

·  Activity sheet: Hey King: Get Off Our Backs!

·  Chart: American Revolutionary War: Preparations

·  Map activity and directions: Major Battles of the American Revolution

·  Notes: American Revolutionary War: 1776-1783

·  Activity sheet: The American Revolution (chapter 6)

·  Article and activity sheet: The Revolutionary Period: The Role of Native Americans, African Americans, and Women During the War

·  Historical Investigation: Valley Forge: Would You Have Quit?

·  Reading and activity: Treaty of Paris

·  Activity: Cartoon Analysis – War for Independence (Cartoon 2)

·  Check for Understanding #1

·  Review puzzle (required for Period 4; optional for Periods 5 and 6)

·  Quarter Two: Quiz One Study Guide (this paper)

Key Terms/Concepts and People:

Preamble Grievance Petition Self-Evident Endowed West Indies

Unalienable Tyranny Natural Rights Ratify Patriot Recruit

Loyalist/Tory Neutral Mercenary Hessians Abolition

Sons of Liberty Daughters of Liberty Continental Army Desertion Inflation

Depreciate Blockade Privateer Treaty of Paris Manumission

Battles: Lexington, Concord, Trenton, Saratoga, Yorktown

John Hancock Thomas Paine George Washington General Cornwallis William Howe Thomas Jefferson John Locke John Adams Roger Sherman Robert Livingston

John Jay Benjamin Franklin Mary Hayes Deborah Sampson Margaret Corbin

King George III