HW Assignments Week of Sept. 28th-Oct 2nd

Hello, Everyone:

Here's a breakdown of the assignments for this week. Click on the links for the assignments.

1. Assignment #9 is due Wednesday

2. Assignment #10 is due Friday

3. Assignment #11 is due Monday October 5th

Assignment #11

READ Chapter 4 Section 2 in the RED TEXTBOOK

COMPLETE the Following Questions:

1. What was the significance of the Battle of Bunker/Breed's Hill?
2. What was the Olive Branch petition and what was King George III's response to it?
3. 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.
4. What reasons did Thomas Jefferson give to justify revolt by the colonies?
5. Explain the connection between John Locke's contract theory of government and Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.
6. 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?
7. Which groups in colonial America tended to be Loyalists and which tended to be Patriots?
8. How did the Loyalists thinking differ from that of the Patriots?
9. 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.

Assignment #10

HW Assignment #10 - Due Friday October 2nd

Read Chapter 4 Section 1 in the RED TEXTBOOK (pp. 94-101), and complete the following:

Questions:

1. What were some of the changes made in British taxation of the American colonies after the French and Indian War?
2. What were the provisions of the Stamp Act? Why was this law distinctive from the other laws passed during the Grenville administration?
3. Describe the legal, financial, and social factors connected to the American resistance to the Stamp Act?
4. How did the issuance of writs of assistance contribute to the constitutional conflict over the Stamp Act in Massachusetts?
5. Why did Americans resist the trade tax imposed on them by the Townsend Acts even though it was an external tax?
6. Explain the meaning of the "propaganda" and use the Boston Massacre as an example of the employment of propaganda by patriots in Boston.
7. What were the causes of the Boston Tea Party?
8. What did King George set out to achieve when he disciplined Massachusetts?
9. What were the major issues addressed by the First Continental Congress?
10. Why were the opening shots fired by the Minutemen at Lexington and Concord referred to as the shots heard 'round the world?

Chapter ID's

Stamp Act (1765)	* Committees of Correspondence
* Samuel Adams	* Tea Act (1773)
* Sons of Liberty	* Boston Tea Party
* Patrick Henry	* Intolerable Acts (1774)
* Declaratory Act (1766)	* quartering of troops
* Townsend Acts (1767)	* martial law
* spinning bees	* First Continental Congress
* Crispus Attucks	* Minutemen
* Boston Massacre	* "shot heard 'round the world"

Tonight's HW #9

Hello, Everyone:

Please note that this is NOT a NEW Assignment. However, it is a reminder of the assignment that was given last week during the Academic Lab Classes.

You are responsible for:

1. Test Corrections

2. Thematic Essay from the January 2008 Regents

CLICK HERE for the original assignment.