Assignment Instructions for Revolution Unit

Read text Ch4, Ch5 and Ch6.

Be able to answer the reading questions Ch4, Ch5 and Ch6.

Look at Secondary and Primary sources for the Revolution Unit. Read those that interest you. Use these as sources for discussion posts, analytic paper or timeline topics.

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For each week, 5 through 6, post

one identification or narrative  to the assignments forum on blackboard, and

at least 3 good messages a week to the discussion forum on blackboard.

Use the list below for ideas of things to research or choose your own topic

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By semester's end, you must turn in one analysis paper and one timeline. These can be about any topic related to US history up through the Civil War and Reconstruction (ca. 1870). You will have a midterm and a final examination.

Some Suggested Terms related to Revolution for your weekly assignments

 

Identifications
Articles of Confederation	Duc de Choiseul	secret orders
Second Continental Congress	Horatio Gates	Thomas Paine
Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment	Lord Dunsmore	William Howe
Common Sense	Lord George Germain	Roderigue Hortalez & Cie.
George Grenville	Pontiac	Sons of Liberty
The Rights of Colonies Examined	Stamp Act	Sugar Act
Lord Frederick North	Proclamation of 1763	Suffolk Resolves
William Pitt	Quebec Act	Charles Townshend
Orders in Council of 1763	Olive Branch petition	Coercive Acts
national domain	First Continental Congress	Committees of Correspondence
John Dickinson	Galloway's Plan of Union	Currency Act of 1764
Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom		Choose your own and identify it

 

Narratives
Boston Tea Party	Gaspée	Hudson Highlands Strategy
Shays's Rebellion	Boston Massacre	Southern Strategy
Lexington	Valley Forge	Choose your own and tell it

 

For assignment posts please format the subject with your last name, assignment type and week number, 
e.g. roebuck-narrative-week 4.