Founding Principles
Which war was a factor in the beginning of the American Revolution?
British Legislation in North America, 1764-1765:
* Sugar Act, 1764
* Quartering Act, 1765
* Stamp Act, 1765
What was the purpose of these measures?
What is - to get the colonists to pay some of the costs resulting from the French and Indian War?
Scene: three colonists
Person #1: Shopkeeper
Person #2: British tea merchant stating "My British East India Company is the cheapest tea you will find in the colonies. There is a three-cent tax for the King, but still it is the cheapest you can buy."
Person #3: Dutch tea merchant stating "You can sip my Dutch tea cheaply and avoid paying any of Britain's taxes. The King says it is illegal but that is only because you will be paying taxes to him.
Which cause of the Boston Tea Party is described to the shopkeeper?
What is the colonists did not want to pay a hidden tax in the British East India Company tea price?
Read the following passage to answer the question:
That a representation is impracticable we all agree: but the consequences is, that we must have a representation in our supreme legislatures here. This by kings, ministers, our ancestors, a century ago, when the colonies were first settled, and continued to be the general sense until the general sense again soon, or Great Britain will lose her colonies.
- Novanglus, (John Adams), "VII. to the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay," March 6, 1775
What principle did John Adams emphasize in this article?
What is representative government?
The French and Indian War affected relations between the British and the colonists in which of the following ways?
What was the colonists challenged British authority?
Why did the British Parliament believe it had the right to levy taxes on American colonists in the 1760s?
What was the British defended the colonists in the French and Indian War?
Traditions of English government influenced American colonists' beliefs about how they should be ruled in what way?
What is the expectation of limited government?
Which American patriot said, "Give me liberty or give me death"?
Who was Patrick Henry?
Who gained military experience while fighting for the British during the French and Indian War?
Who was George Washington?
What was the unintended consequence of these taxes?
Use the following information to answer the question.
Debt from the Seven Years' War =
- Townshend Act of 1767
- Sugar Act of 1764
- Stamp Act of 1765
= ????
Which immediate colonial response BEST describes what event the above laws led to?
What is the colonists threw tea in Boston Harbor?
As a Unites States diplomat, which man secured France as an ally during the Revolutionary War?
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
Steps Leading to the American Revolution:
Step 1: Great Britain won the Seven Years War
Step 2: ???
Step 3: American Colonists protested British actions
What did British demand from the American colonists to best complete these steps?
What is new taxes?
The Coercive Acts, 1774:
* Boston Port Act - Closed Boston Harbor to trade
* Massachusetts Government Act - extended British control over the Massachusetts government
* Administration of Justice Act - Gave the colonial government the power to move trials of royal officials accused of crimes in Massachusetts to another colony or to Great Britain
* Quartering Act - Establish new provisions in all the colonies for lodging British soldiers
Why did American colonists object to these measures?
What was they eliminated the power of Massachusetts colonists to govern themselves?
A colonial newspaper headline would have read: "BOSTON NEWS: December 17, 1763 ... No taxation without representation!"
What conclusion you think would express how the colonists felt about the new taxes?
What is - the colonists considered new taxes unfair?
Use the passage to answer the question:
In 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams:
"If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies - we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."
How did Abigail Adams hope the Revolutionary War would change the lives of women?
What is it would give women the right to vote?
How did the Proclamation of 1763 attempt to limit colonial expansion in North America?
What is it banned the colonists from settling west of the Appalachians?
Events in Colonial North America, 1760s:
* 1763 = The French and Indian Ware ends in a British victory. British authorities place restrictions on colonial settlement beyond the Allegheny Mountains.
* 1764 = The British Parliament passes the Sugar Act in order to gain tax revenue from the American colonists. The Currency Act reforms the colonial currency system to the advantage of British merchants trading with the colonists.
* 1765 = The Sugar Act imposes a direct tax on paper, playing cards, and legal documents. The Quartering Act requires colonists to provide accommodations for British troops stationed in the colonies.
Which best explains the lasting impact of these turning points in the United States history?
They led to American independence by inspiring what?
What is resentment among colonists?