Unit 2:  The Revolution, 1760 to 1785




























Unit Outline Download


Chapter Reading Schedule:

Chapter 5 is due Tuesday, 9/ 15.

Chapter 6 is due Friday, 9/18.

Chapter 7 is due Wednesday, 9/23.

Unit 2 Test is Monday, 9/28.


Posted Lecture Notes:


Note:  Posted notes include essential material presented in lecture but are not always organized in the same manner as the classroom presentation.

Unit Study Aids:

Recommended AMSCO Readings:

  • Ch 3 Colonial Society in the Eighteenth Century
  • Ch 4 Imperial Wars and Colonial Protest, 1754-1774
  • Ch 5 The American Revolution and Confederation, 1774-1787


Unit Assignments


Name

Directions

Due Date
Unit Vocabulary
(25 pts)
  
Download the Unit Two Outline, and define the terms in BOLD on the vocabulary list.  Provide both the factual background and the significance of each term to the coming of the American Revolution.

 MON, 9/28
Evolution of the Declaration Response
(50 pts)
Though the Declaration of Independence stands as one of the most significant documents of the modern age, it was not created in isolation. In fact, it represented the evolution of two distinct strains of 18th-century political thinking in the American Colonies:
**A pragmatic response to specific grievances of the colonies against the Mother country, and
**A more radical statement on the nature of sovereignty and legitimate government.

DIRECTIONS:
1. Read the three documents contained in the linked APUSH Revolution Reader;
2. Highlight in each document evidence of the two strains mentioned above;
3. Write a 2-3 page, typed response to the following prompt:

“To what degree and in what ways did the Declaration of Independence represent a unique fusion of the ideas and ideals of the Olive Branch Petition and Thomas Paine’s Common Sense?”


SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
If you do not wish to print the readings at home, you may make a photocopy from the APUSH Reserves binder in the WVHS Library. Please see our wonderful librarians for assistance.

 Due MON, 9/21, for Pd 2.


Due TUE, 9/22, for Pd 1.
Critical Period Patriotism & Nationalism Response
(25 pts)		 One of the fundamental issues leading up to the Revolution was also a fundamental issue of the Critical Period:  to what degree was there unity among Americans?  Though the new nation had a new government under the Articles of Confederation, it was far from certain that it would survive beyond its first few independent steps.

DIRECTIONS:
Read the linked packet on "Mutinies Conspiracies & Rebellions" and respond briefly (No more than a page each) to the two prompts below:

1. What do the histories of the Continental Line mutinies, the Newburgh conpiracy and Shays' rebellion tell us about the unity, perhaps even the patriotism, of Americans at the end of the Revolution?

2. What do these histories reveal about the strength of the national government of the new United States under the Articles of Confederation?


SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
If you do not wish to print the readings at home, you may make a photocopy from the APUSH Reserves binder in the WVHS Library. Please see our wonderful librarians for assistance.		 Due THU, 9/24, for Pd 1.


Due FRI, 9/25, for Pd 2.