• textbook --> 117-125.
• AMSCO --> pp. 60-62.

1. Describe the French movement into the Mississippi Valley and connect that development to the future French and Indian War.
2. Identify the characteristics of "Country" political ideology.  How did this way of thinking reflect a growing fear that the expansion of the powers of the state?
3. What was the impact of the earlier colonial wars on the Iroquois League?  What was the importance of the Grand Settlement of 1701?
4. What was the Albany Plan of Union?  What did its failure reveal about colonial unity?
5. What were the causes of the "Great War for Empire," as the French and Indian War was also called?
6. How did the French and Indian War become a "global" war?
7. What were the misconceptions and stereotypes that the British had about the colonials and vice versa?  Why did these stereotypes develop?
8. What role did the Native Americans play in the war?
9. Why did the French loose?
10. What were the terms of the Treaty of Paris is 1763?
11. How could the war potentially change the relationship between the American colonists and England?

                          ASSIGNMENT 2:

• textbook --> pp. 130-140.
• AMSCO --> pp. 63-65.

1. How did Britain's experience with the colonials during the French and Indian War color her thinking about her American colonies after the war?
2. What dilemma faced London policymakers at the end of the "Great War for Empire?"  What options were available to Britain in 1763 for dealing with the colonies?
3. Identify the major colonial conflicts with Native Americans after the French and Indian War.  How did these conflicts illustrate problems connected with the acquisition of western lands?
4. What was the level of power exercised by colonial assemblies by 1764.  How did Parliament attempt to challenge that power after the French and Indian War?
5. What initial policy change occurred when George III ascended the throne?  What were the King's motives in making these changes?
6. How were these policy changes reflected in the Acts passed under the Grenville administration?  [Take notes on the Acts themselves as well as the general policy objectives that these Acts reflected--perhaps in CHART form?]
7. Why did the Stamp Act so antagonize the American colonists?
8. What was the effect of protests to the Stamp Act and what were the results?  What was England's response?
9. Add to the list of major principles of "country" ideology that you created above.  Why did this political view appeal to the American colonists?
10. Define the term "writs of assistance."  How did this issue contribute to the constitutional conflict over the Stamp Act in Massachusetts?
11. Who were the Sons of Liberty?  How were they an example of popular resistance to British policy?
12. By the mid-1760s, what was the major bone of contention between the British government and the American colonists?

                         ASSIGNMENT 3:

• textbook --> pp. 140-150.
• AMSCO --> pp. 65-69;  docs. B-D on pp. 92-94.

1. What was the Regulator movement?  What was the impact of British imperial policy on social tensions in the colonies?
2. How did the Townshend Act attempt to anticipate American attacks on future British colonial Acts?
3. Why did the Americans resist the duty imposed on them by the Townshend Act, even though it was an external tax?
4. How did the policies of Lord North differ from those of his predecessors?  In what ways were they alike?
5. How did the "Boston Massacre" and the Gaspee Incident add to the growing tensions between the American colonists and England?
6. What role did the Committees of Correspondence play in the American protests?
7. What were the causes of the Boston Tea Party in terms of the provision of the Tea Act of 1773 and its economic impact in the Boston area?
8. List the "Intolerable" [Coercive] Acts and explain the purpose of each as well as their impact on Britain's relationship with the American colonies.
9. How did the Quebec Act help to unite the colonies, with Boston, in opposition to the Intolerable Acts?
10. What were the major decisions made at the First Continental Congress?  What was their significance?
11. Why did advocates of colonial rights call themselves Whigs and Loyalists [or the British who called them Tories]?

DBQ --> AMSCO -- pp. 74-76