Global Power Systems
This European nation controlled vast overseas territories in the 1700s, including colonies in North America.
What is Britain
The section of text that describes growing tensions between colonists and British rule.
Answer: What is "Discontent in the Colonies"?
The document that begins with "We the People" and established a new form of government.
Answer: What is the Constitution?
The historical thinking skill that asks what stayed the same and what changed after the revolution.
Answer: What is continuity and change?
This theme describes the relationship between imperial powers and their colonies, as shown in the images.
Answer: What is imperialism?
The geographic advantages that helped Britain control trade routes and establish naval dominance.
Answer: What are being an island nation and having excellent harbors?
This colonial leader represented a different approach to revolution compared to other colonial rebellions.
Answer: Who is George Washington?
This revolutionary idea created a government with power divided between federal, state, and local levels.
Answer: What is federalism?
The three different perspectives students must consider when analyzing these historical events.
Answer: What are British merchant, American colonist, and Native American viewpoints?
The evidence of growing national identity in the American colonies mentioned in the worksheet.
Answer: What is the development of distinctly American political and cultural institutions?
This term describes the system where European powers competed to control territories around the world.
Answer: What is colonialism or imperialism?
The major military advantage that American colonists had over the British forces.
Answer: What is knowledge of local terrain and guerrilla warfare tactics?
Two rights mentioned in the text that were considered revolutionary ideas for the 1700s.
Answer: What are freedom of speech and freedom of religion? (or other Bill of Rights freedoms)
This explains why the American Revolution is considered important in world history, not just American history.
Answer: What is its global impact on democratic movements and constitutional government?
These Enlightenment ideas about government and rights connect to the philosophy students have studied.
Answer: What are natural rights, social contract theory, and limited government?
The three different regions where Britain had control according to the worksheet's world map analysis.
Answer: What are North America, the Caribbean, and India?
The type of upset that colonists had regarding British rule, as mentioned in the resistance section.
Answer: What is upset about taxation without representation?
These two concepts were designed to prevent absolute monarchy and protect individual freedoms.
Answer: What are separation of powers and checks and balances?
The aspects of British colonial rule that continued after the revolution versus what changed completely.
Answer: What is continued trade relationships vs. complete political independence?
The way these images demonstrate the global nature of 18th-century imperial competition.
Answer: What is showing how European powers competed for control across multiple continents?
This factor allowed European powers to dominate other regions despite being geographically smaller.
Answer: What are superior military technology and naval power?
This aspect made the American colonial resistance unique compared to other colonial rebellions worldwide.
Answer: What is organized political leadership and unified colonial cooperation?
The way the success of the American Revolution influenced other revolutionary movements around the world.
Answer: What is inspiring democratic ideals and constitutional governments globally?
The historical significance that makes this revolution a turning point in world history.
Answer: What is establishing the first successful colonial independence movement that inspired global democratic revolutions?
The connection between this revolution and other independence movements that followed in world history.
Answer: What is establishing the model for successful anti-colonial resistance that influenced Latin American, African, and Asian independence movements?