Assignment:  Be ready to discuss (and, possibly be tested on) the following:
 

1. Summarize Jonathan Boucher’s (Document 6) argument against revolution.
2. What blueprint for free government can be derived from the “Declaration” (Document 7) of the First Continental Congress?  Does this “declaration” present an argument for independence?
3. Derive the idea of limited government from The Virginia Bill of Rights (Document 8)
4. Discuss the tension in the Declaration of Independence (Document 9) between the inherent right revolution and the duty to pay “decent respect” to the opinions of mankind.
5. What were the principal causes of the Revolution?
6. What was the principal reason for American victory in the Revolution?

Identifications:

French and Indian War
George III
Proclamation of 1763
Quartering Acts
Parson’s Cause
Currency Act
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Writs of Assistance
Country Ideology
Nonimportation Movement
Stamp Act Congress
Declaratory Act
Regulators
Charles Townshend
Boston Massacre
Gaspee
Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
Coercive Acts
Quebec Act
First Continental Congress
Suffolk Resolves
Continental Association
Whigs
Tories
Thomas Gage
Lord North
Lexington and Concord
Second Continental Congress
Bunker Hill
Siege of Quebec
Thomas Paine
John Locke
Republicanism
Lafayette
Hessians
Sir Henry Clinton
Peace of Paris