Week 4 study guide

 

Terms and People:

Benjamin Franklin

Boston Massacre

Currency Act

Enlightenment

First Continental Congress

French & Indian War

Georgia

Intolerable Acts

Jonathan Edwards

John Adams

Nonimportation agreements

Patrick Henry, Virginia Resolutions (1765)

Phillis Wheatley

Print Culture

Samuel Adams

Sons of Liberty

Stamp Act (1765)

Sugar Act (1764)

Tea Act

Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Virtual representation

Map

Forts:

Detroit

Fort Wayne

Halifax

St. Frederic (Crown Point)

 

Bodies of Water:

Lake Erie

Lake Huron

Lake Michigan

Lake Ontario

Lake Superior

Lake Champlain

Lake George

 

Primary Source Reading:

 

Declaration of Independence

• To what does the author attribute the dispute between the colonies and England?
• What is the author's opinion about the behavior of the King and Parliament in this dispute?  The behavior of the colonists?
• What are his beliefs about the proper relationship between America, on the one hand, and the King and Parliament, on the other?