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___________________________Date: ____9/27/2023____________\Pattern: __B__________

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Crash Course World History: American Revolution #28

The Seven Years War ended in 1763. You have learned about the North American battles of this
war, called the French and Indian War, in previous US History classes.

1. How was the end of the Seven Years War a victory for British colonists in North America?

It was a victory, because they were cranky about the Crown keeping large numbers of British
troops in the colonies even after the end of the 7 Years War.

2. Complete the following chart: Describe Colonial Reaction/Complaints Result Stamp Act
Townshend Acts Boston Massacre Boston Tea Party
Describe Colonial Result
Reaction/Complaints
Stamp Act Place a fancy stamp Colonists weren't so The British backed down
on your documents, keen on this, not so and repealed the Stamp
newspapers, playing much because the tax Act, because the colonists
cards, etc., and in was high because they hated the Stamp Act and
return, you give us had no direct the colonists, and the
money. representation in the British fought about the
parliament that had act.
levied the tax.
Townshend Acts A new form of taxes These led to further The protests escalated,
for Americans that protests and boycotts which led to the Boston
came after the Stamp and most importantly, Massacre.
Act. more organization
among the colonists.
Boston Massacre A massacre that killed This escalated to more This made more people to
five people. Colonists protests. People didn’t get angry.
were being shots by like how that situation
soldiers. was handled.
Boston Tea Party A bunch of colonists The Boston Tea Party The British were angry
dumped about a led to further British and were starting to lose
million dollars’ worth crackdowns and then their grip on America.
of tea into Boston mobilization of
Harbor, in protest of colonial militias and
British government then Paul Revere and
decisions that would then actual war.
have made British tea
cheaper.
3.What were the Committees of Correspondence? How were they seen as a shadow government?

The Committees of Correspondence was a committee that spread information about who was and
was not observing the boycotts. They were seen as a shadow government, because these
committees also could coerce non-compliers into compliance, which is to say that they were
creating and enforcing policy.

4.Why does the host argue that the revolution was complete by the time the Declaration of
Independence was signed?

The host argues that the revolution was complete by the time the Declaration of independence
was signed, because by the time the shooting started, most of the colonists were already self-
governing and had developed a sense of themselves as something separate and different from
Great Britain, as evidenced by these "Committees of Correspondence," which functioned as
shadow governments, eventually reaching out to foreign governments, establishing an espionage
network, tarring and feathering loyalists and royal officials which, by the way is incredibly
painful and dangerous to the victim, and even recruiting physicians to tell American men that
drinking British tea would make them weak and effeminate

5. Why would enslaved people in the colonies have been better off if the British had won the
Revolutionary War?

Enslaved people would’ve been better off if the British had won the Revolutionary War, because
they needed protection of a government, especially since Britain ended slavery well before
America did and without a civil war.

6. What was revolutionary about the American Revolution?

The thing that was revolutionary about the American Revolution was that the colonists threw off
the rule of an imperial monarchy and replaced it with a government that didn't have a king, a
radical idea in a world that didn't feature many non-monarchical forms of government.

7. How was the American Revolution influenced by Enlightenment thinkers?

The American Revolution was influenced by Enlightenment thinkers, because people like
Immanuel Kant, went so far as to argue that human reason rendered a belief in God unnecessary
and, by extension, proclaimed that any belief in divine intervention or a divine plan for humanity
was just superstition.
 8. Complete the following chart:
American Revolutionary Describe Result at end of American Was this a change or a
Goals Revolution continuity? Explain…

Property Rights The Articles of Most of the writers and The ideas of the
Confederation gave the signers of the American revolution -
government no power to
tax, which had the effect of
Declaration of ideas about property
making sure that people Independence were and equality and
who had property were able men of property, and representation - are
to keep it because they they wanted to keep it still hugely important
never had to pay the that way. in shaping political
government anything in
exchange for the right to
discourse around the
own and use it. world, and particularly
in America.
Equality The Articles of The Declaration of The ideas of the
Confederation gave the Independence was American revolution -
government no power to
tax, which had the effect of
created, and in it was ideas about property
making sure that people written that “all men and equality and
who had property were able are created equal”. representation - are
to keep it because they People still weren’t still hugely important
never had to pay the being treated equally at in shaping political
government anything in
exchange for the right to
the end of the discourse around the
own and use it. American Revolution. world, and particularly
in America.

9. What was the Enlightenment?

The Enlightenment was a celebration of humans' ability to understand and improve the natural
world through reason. The Enlightenment had a number of antecedents, including the European
Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution, but what made it special was that some of its more
radical proponents.

10. Complete the following chart:

Enlightenment Thinker Argument/New Ideas Influence on American Revolution

John Locke Formulated his version of John Locke happened to be

inalienable rights as life, British, and the real radicals
liberty, and property. And were French. And the founders
that's much more traditional of the United States, were far
than arguing, for instance, that more closely linked to those
property should be held British Enlightenment thinkers
 communally. than to the French, who
influenced the French
Revolution, which as we will
see next week, goes
swimmingly.
Immanuel Kant Went so far as to argue that Moderate Enlightenment
human reason rendered a thinkers were also more
belief in God unnecessary and, willing to countenance
by extension, proclaimed that hierarchical social and political
any belief in divine structures.
intervention or a divine plan
for humanity was just
superstition.

11. What were significant changes that were brought about by the American Revolution?

The significant changes that were brought about by the American Revolution were that it
recognized the equal rights of daughters and widows, when it came to inheriting and
possessing property. Also, it created a world in which future countesses could rehabilitate their
reputations in New York. Americans came to view themselves as equal to each othe20ar.