Unit 1: Colonial America Study Guide. County Assessment is 10/28 for A day
County Assessment is 10/29 for B day
Part I. Complete 1-10
Part II. Complete 10-20.
1. Which colonies make up the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies?
2. What impact did the climate have on the southern agriculture?
3. Define the following acts: Stamp Act, Declaratory Act, Quartering Act,
and the Coercive/Intolerable Acts. What was taxed based on each law listed?
How did the colonist respond to each act? How did the British react to the
colonist actions?
4. What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
5. What was the Boston Tea Party? Who participated and why?
6. Why did the colonist claim that the King did not have the right to tax them?
7. Define the three wars prior to the French and Indian War. How did they
differ from the French and Indian War? Who was the outcome of the war?
8. What was the purpose of the First Continental Congress?
9. Who were the Sons of Liberty? What did they represent?
10. Define the imports/exports in Colonial America? Cash crops?
11. The French/Indian War. Who? What? When? Where? Why? Native Americans
position. What was the purpose of the Albany Plan of Union?
12. What was the economic history of the colonies? (Colonial Economies sheet)
13. What are examples of primary/secondary sources?
14. What was the Boston Massacre? Explain what happened and why.
15. Who was Thomas Paine? Read the Common Sense document. What was the main
idea from that document?
16. What are the forms of Protest and provide examples (ie…boycott, speech,
march, sit-in etc…)?
17. Trace the history of the Navigation Acts. What was it? How did the
colonists react?
18. Great Britain responded to the various actions of the colonists by
sending_____________________ to patrol the streets of Boston.
19. The British passed the Writs of Assistance. What was it? Explain its
impact on the colonists.
20. What is a fact/interpretation?
