COMPLETE the Following Questions:
- What was the significance of the Battle of Bunker/Breed's Hill?
- What was the Olive Branch petition and what was King George III's response to it?
- Describe the role of Thomas Paine in the American Revolution and explain the impact of his pamphlet, Common Sense, on the American movement toward independence.
- What reasons did Thomas Jefferson give to justify revolt by the colonies?
- Explain the connection between John Locke's contract theory of government and Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.
- Why do you think that when Jefferson borrowed Locke's ideas, he changed the rights of man from life, liberty, and property to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
- Which groups in colonial America tended to be Loyalists and which tended to be Patriots?
- How did the Loyalists thinking differ from that of the Patriots?
- On whose side did the following groups fight and why -- African slaves, Quakers, Native Americans?
Chapter ID's:
| * Second Continental Congress | * social contract theory |
| * General Thomas Gage | * Thomas Jefferson |
| * Bunker/Breed's Hill | * Declaration of Independence |
| * Olive Branch Petition | * unalienable rights |
| * Thomas Paine | * Patriots |
| * Common Sense | * Loyalists |
| * John Locke | * These are the times that try men's souls. |
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