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Robert Pierce
History 17A Second Essay
SECOND EXAM
Part One--50%You will be asked to answer one of the following:
- Arrogance and ignorance may be called the twin causes of the American Revolution. Trace and discuss the ways in which the British lost their American colonies.
- Explain and discuss what you might describe as radical elements in the Declaration of Independence. Do you believe the Revolution was radical or conservative, and why?
- Compare the role of the Catholic Church in Spanish and French colonial communities to the Puritan Church's role in New England.
- If you had been a colonial woman in the 1700s, which colony would you have chosen to live in and why would you choose that particular one?
- Although a seeming lull in the dispute between Great Britain and the colonies occurred between 1770 and 1773, the groundwork was laid for the shift from resistance to outright rebellion. Explain what these developments were and how they fit into the anti-British conspiracy theory. What prompted the shift to independence by 1776?
- Compare the origins and results of the Albany Congress, the Stamp Act Congress, and the First Continental Congress.
- Describe the effects of the Revolution on African Americans. Include a discussion of free blacks including writers.
Part Two--50%
You will be asked to Identify and give the significance of four of the following:
- Saratoga
- Articles of Confederation
- Battle of Quebec
- Lord Cornwallis
- Proclamation of 1763
- Great Awakening
- Charles Townshend
- QuebecAct
- Quartering Act
- Chief Pontiac
- Common Sense
- Fort Duquesne
- Benedict Arnold
- General Burgoyne
- Northwest Ordinance of 1786
- Sam Adams
- Courts of Admiralty
- Stamp Act Congress
- Intolerable Acts
- Shays' Rebellion
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