World History – 3/11/09 & 3/12/09

Bellwork: Pg 632 Skillbuilder 1-2 Q&A

Objectives: Describe the events that led to the American Revolution and the influence of Enlightenment ideas on American government.

Classwork:
Read & Discuss pgs. 640-645

22-4 Questions

1. What was the population of Britain’s North American colonies in 1770?
2. What did the Navigation Act of 1651 prevent?
3. Who won the French and Indian War?
4. What did colonists have to pay under the Stamp Act of 1765?
5. Why did colonists argue they could not be taxed?
6. What was the document (and who wrote it) that declared the colonies’ separation from Britain?
7. Briefly list the four reasons for the colonists’ success in the Revolutionary War.
8. What was the name of the first constitution passed in 1781?
9. What were the three branches of government set up by the Constitutional Convention?
10. What is the definition of a federal system?
11. What rights were protected by the Bill of Rights and what philosophers had “advocated” them?