English 172: The American Revolution
Mid term study sheet

Exam: Tuesday November 12, 2002
(You will not need to bring a bluebook to the exam. )

Scope of the Exam: You are responsible for all the readings on the syllabus up to "Common Sense", with the following exception. You are only responsible for one short text under the "Pro-American Opposition in Britain" (on syllabus under 10/29): Mrs. Catherine Macaulay, “Address to the People of England, Scotland and Ireland on the Present Important Crisis of Affairs.” (in Reader). We are saving our reading and discussion of Paine's "Common Sense" until after the mid-term.

Format of the exam:

A. 20 items to match with 20 other items

B. Passage identification: Identify the passage as to a) speaker; b) context that gives the passage its meaning (do not paraphrase)

C. 2 short (4 to 5 sentence) essay questions

You will have 70 minutes for the test.

Advice for studying for the exam:

1: I would suggest scanning/ rereading all the texts in the class so that your refresh your memory of them. Take note of the passages we discussed in class (including passages discussed in oral presentations by fellow class mates).

2: Be sure you know what each of the items below is, and what it means within the context of the American Revolution. If you cannot find it in your notes or on our web site, you can find it by searching on www.google.com. You will have the answer in about 15 seconds.

3: Make yourself a time line (drawing on the time line in your reader), so you get a sure understanding of the sequence of these events, and how they lead to the Revolution.

4: To get an integrated overview, reread the parts of Wood's The American Revolution 27-52.

Good luck!

The French and Indian War/ Seven Years War

Joseph Addison, The Spectator, #69, "The Royal Exchange"

John Locke, "of the Dissolution of Government"

The State of Nature

Cato's Letters, "Of Freedom of Speech"

Liberty Leading the People
King George III

British Government: Organizational Chart

The Stamp Act

Stamp Act Congress, 1765

Sons of Liberty

Tar and feathering

The Declaratory Act, 1766

The Townshend Acts, 1767

John Dickinson's Letters for a Farmer

Join or Die

Boston: the center of resistance

The Boston Massacre

Samuel Adams

Committee of Correspondence for Town of Boston

Votes and Proceedings of the Town of Boston

Governor Thomas Hutchinson

Lord Dartmouth, American Secretary

John Adams

Benjamin Franklin

The Hutchinson letter scandal

Tea Act

East India Company

The Boston Tea Party

The Coercive/ Intolerable Acts: Boston Port Act: Massachusetts Government Act; Quebec Act

Richard Henry Lee

Boston as martyr for the liberty of the American colonies

Lord North

First Continental Congress

Differences of the colonies

Two groups in the Congress: moderates and radicals
Suffolk resolves

Galloway Plan

Declarations and Resolves of the Continental Congress

The Association

Patrick Henry's speech

George Washington

The Battle of Bunker Hill

Charleston

Dr. Joseph Warren

Abigail Adams

General William Howe

General Gage

General Burgoyne

Declaration of Causes for Taking Up Arms

Thomas Jefferson

Proclamation of the Rebellion

Nathan Hale

Republicanism

The Roman Republic as model

The Oath of the Horatii, David