John Hancock

Lord North

George Grenville

Samuel Adams

Charles Townshend

John Adams

Crispus Attucks

Marquis de Lafayette

Keng George III

Baron von Steuben

John Dickinson

Paxton Boys

General William Howe

Horatio Gates

Charles Lord Cornwallis

Benedict Arnold

Noah Webster

George Washington

John Burgoyne

Thomas Paine

Barry St. Leger

Richard Henry Lee

Patrick Henry

Comte de Rochambeau

mercenaries

natural rights

Mercantalism

"No taxation without representation"

internal/external taxation

"virtual" representation

boycott

Board of Trade

Sons of Liberty

Quebec Act

Navigation Acts

Declaratory Acts

First Continental Congress

Sugar Act

Townshend Acts

Quartering Act

Boston Massacre

Stamp Act

Committees of Correspondence

Hessians

Admiralty Courts

Boston Tea Party

Loyalists

Stamp Act Congress

Intolerable Acts

Second Continental Congress

Common Sense

Declaration of Independence

Loyalists/Tories

Patriots/Whigs

Treaty of Paris of 1783

Sons of Liberty

Gaspee

Olive Branch Petition

The American Crisis

Thomas Paine

Noah Webster

Explain the relationship between mercantilism, the Navigation Acts, and British efforts to create an administrative structure for their empire after 1696.

What were the major advantages and disadvantages of the British and the colonists, respectively, as the American Revolutionary War began?  What would Britain have to do to win? What would the colonists have to do to win?

In what ways were the mercantilist policies of the British burdensome to the colonists?  In what ways were they beneficial?  

To what extent was each of the following responsible for the conflict between Britain and the American colonies:

	Parliamentary Leadership
	King George III
	British Mercantilism
	The Navigation Acts
	British Officials in the Colonies

The Colonists had debated with Parliament and protested its actions since 1763.  That being the case, why did the Declaration of Independence name only George III, and not Parliament?

"The British lost the Revolutionary War more than the Americans won it."  Assess the validity of this statement.

Develop an argument against the Stamp Act like you think a colonial leader might have formulated. 

What major errors of strategy do you believe the British government made in the ways they responded to the colonies in the period 1763-1775. For each of these, explain how you would have handled the situation differently to ensure that the colonies did not break with the mother country. 

Trace the major stages in the growing sense of colonial unity against the British from 1760 to 1776. 

Explain why the land west of the Appalachians was an important factor in the coming of the American Revolution. 

List and discuss the ways in which the American Revolution challenged social
and economic patterns in colonial life. 

How did diplomatic relations help win the Revolution and also impede the
peace settlement? 

Explain the extent to which in the final analysis, the Revolution determined
"who would rule at home" as well as "home rule".