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Nation of Nations
Chapter Six
Toward the War for American Independence
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I. The Seven Years' War
In order to control the
vast
untapped
economic resources of North America, the European powers fought a
series
of wars in the 18th century, (1700 - 1800). The last of these was the
Seven
Years' War from 1754 - 1763.
4. Who fought whom in the
Seven
Years'
War? What territory was aquired by Britain and Spain in the
Treaty
of Paris in 1763?
II. The Imperial Crisis
5. As a result of the
costly
Seven
Years' War, what three things did Britain believe its North American
territory
needed? That conclusion dictated Britain's decision to ___ ?
6. What was the
Proclamation of
1763?
For what 2 reasons was it issued?
7. What 2 financial
problems
did Britain
face after the Seven Years' War? Why couldn't British taxpayers
shoulder
these costs? By contrast, how much were Americans taxed?
8. Why was the British
income
from
the trade duties (or import taxes) slimmer than it might have been?
9. In the few years before
1775, how
did land-hungry colonials get out west of the Appalachian
Mountains?
Who became famous by leading the first party of pioneers through it in
1775?
10. What was the Molasses
Act
of 1733?
Why had Parliament passed this law?
11. Why did the New England
merchants
say they had to, regrettably, smuggle in molasses from the French and
Dutch
sugar islands?
The Sugar Act of 1764 was
an
attempt
by Parliament to end this illegal trade in molasses from the Dutch and
French sugar islands and to channel it into trade with the British
sugar
islands, and get more revenue in the process.
12. How much was the import
duty (tax)
under the Sugar Act? Was this higher or lower than the duty levied
under
the Molasses Act? Why did Grenville believe that this new duty
would
bring in MORE revenue?
13. How would violators of
the
Sugar
Act be tried? What were Admiralty Courts?
Please go to the site,
Historiography of the American Revolution and answer the questions
there.
19. What was the Currency
Act?
How did Britain save money from the Currency Act?
20. What was the Quartering
Act? How
did this help the British save money?
21. What items were
affected by
the
Stamp Act? How would violators of the Stamp Act be dealt with?
22. Colonial Americans
believed, along
with John Locke, that property guaranteed ____?
23. For colonial Americans,
what was
the main responsibility of government?
24. It followed from this
that
no people
should be ___ , because the power to tax was ___ ?
25. What other customary
right
was
being violated by the Sugar and Stamp Acts?
26. In sum, Grenville's new
measures
led some colonials to suspect that ambitious men ruling England might
be
___? At the very least, the new measures implied that ___ .
27. What were the Virginia
Resolves
against the Stamp Act? Who introduced them?
28. In October 1765,
delegates
from
nine colonies convened in New York and petitioned the king and
Parliament
to ___ ?
29. How did merchants in
Boston, New
York and Philadelphia pressure Parliament to repeal these taxing
measures?
30. Who were the 'Sons of
Liberty'?
Who made up the leadership in the Sons of Liberty?
31. Whom did the Sons of
Liberty organize
in the seaports in opposition to the Stamp Act?
32. What did these mobs of
people do?
33. Why were the Sons of
Liberty stunned
by a mob's destruction of the stately mansion of Lieutenant Governor
Thomas
Hutchinson of Masssachusetts?
34. For what 2 reasons was
the
Stamp
Act repealed?
35. Grenville and his
supporters tried
to counter Americans' objections to taxation without representation by
advancing the theory of 'virtual representation'. What was this theory
of 'virtual representation'?
36. What five items were
taxed
under
the Townshend Acts? How did Townshend assure more effective
enforcement
of these taxes? How were these new officials to be paid?
37. In what 2 ways did the
Customs
Officials antagonize American, and especially Boston's, merchants?
Please read the
selection, Letters
From a Farmer in Pennsylvania.
Answer the following
questions based
on this reading:
38. What should be the
response
of
the people to governments that undertake wrong measures? What if the
peoples'
petitions are disregarded? When is open resistance justified?
39. Which modes of
obtaining
relief
does the farmer recommend?
40. Why is resistance to
the
mother
country different from resistance to a king?
41. What occurred in June,
1768, after
customs officials seized and condemned the 'Liberty'? How did Lord
Hillsborough
respond to this?
42. What did most colonial
legislatures
do in response to the 'Liberty Riot' and the arrival of British troops
in Boston?
43. What was the general
purpose of
the 'Committees of Inspection'? In what 4 ways did the
Committees
of Inspection act?
44. How
were the British troops
regularly
treated in Boston?
45. Why were Britain's troops particularly unpopular
with
Boston's laboring classes?
46. In what 3
ways did the 'Daughters
of Liberty' support the resistance?
47. What happened on the
night
of March
5, 1770?
48. When the Townshend Acts
were repealed
in 1770, which was the only one that remained? Why?
49. Why were the Townshend
Acts
repealed?
Please read the
selection: Rules
By Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One. After you
have
read this selection, answer the following question:
50. What advice does
Franklin
give
to British ministers about listening to the friends of the
people?
What advice does he give about redressing grievances?
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