US HISTORY – UNIT 3, THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Zinn, Chapters 4 & 5
Textbook, Pathways: Chapter 4, sections 1, 2, & 4
IDEAS, CONCEPTS and SUCH
- Causes & Effects of French & Indian War
- Pontiac’s Rebellion
- Proclamation of 1763
- Declaratory Act
- Sugar Act
- Stamp Act
- Sons of Liberty
- Tea Acts
- Boston Tea Party
- Boston Massacre
- Townshend Act
- Common Sense
- Declaration of Independence
- Continental Congress
- Olive Branch Petition
THE WAR itself
- Lexington & Concord
- Militia & Washington’s Army
- Bunker Hill
- Loyalists
- Hessians
- European Style of fighting vs. Colonial Style
- Strengths & Weaknesses of the British and the Colonists
- Battle of New York
- Alliance with the French
- Fighting in the South and West
- Victory at Yorktown
THE PEOPLE
- William Pitt
- Tom Paine
- Thomas Jefferson
- John Adams
- Sam Adams
- Ben Franklin
- General Burgoyne
- Benedict Arnold
- Nathaniel Green
- Patrick Henry
- Thomas Hutchinson