1. Following the French and Indian War, the British crown needed money and figured the Americans could help pay for the war.
2. Also, the economic policy of mercantilism dictated that England try to keep its hard money within the British Empire. So, laws were passed to restrict American trade.
3. The taxes and regulations that followed were not received well by the Americans, notably the Stamp Act.
4. Conditions deteriorated and radical patriots brought matters to a head in events such as the Tea Party and Boston Massacre. Even though most Americans would be considered moderates at the time, the radical patriots were the ones making things happen.
5. The culmination of the patriot's activities came at Lexington and Concord, when the American Revolution began.
IDENTIFICATIONS
Lord North
George Grenville
Letter from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
Gaspee Incident
Charles Townshend
Baron Von Steuben
Mercantilism
"Virtual" representation
Sons of Liberty
Admiralty courts
Committees of Correspondence
First Continental Congress
Loyalists (Tories)
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:
The Deep Roots of Revolution
1. Why does the author say that the American Revolution began when the first settlers stepped ashore?
Mercantilism and Colonial Grievances
Know: Mercantilism, Navigation Laws, Royal Veto
2. Explain the economic theory of mercantilism and the role of colonies.
3. How did Parliament enact the theory of mercantilism into policy?
The Merits and Menace of Mercantilism
Know: Salutary Neglect, John Hancock, Bounties
4. In what ways did the mercantilist theory benefit the colonies?
5. What economic factors were involved in leading colonists to be displeased with the British government?
The Stamp Tax Uproar
Know: George Grenville, Sugar Act, Quartering Act, Stamp Act, Admiralty Courts, Virtual Representation
6. Why were the colonists so upset over relatively mild taxes and policies?
Forced Repeal of the Stamp Act
Know: Stamp Act Congress, Non- importation Agreements, Homespun, Sons of Liberty, Declaratory Act
7. In what ways did colonists resist the Stamp Act?
The Townshend Tea Tax and the Boston "Massacre"
Know: Townshend Acts, Indirect Tax, Boston Massacre, John Adams
8. How did the Townshend Acts lead to more difficulties?
The Seditious Committees of Correspondence
Know: George III, Lord North, Samuel Adams, Committees of Correspondence
9. How did Committees of Correspondence work?
Tea Brewing in Boston
Know: British East India Company, Boston Tea Party
10. What was the cause of the Boston Tea Party, and what was its significance?
Parliament Passes the "Intolerable Acts"
Know: Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, Quartering Act of 1774, Quebec Act
11. What was so intolerable about the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts?
Bloodshed
Know: First Continental Congress, Declaration of Rights, The Association, Tar and Feathers, Minute Men, Lexington and Concord
12. What was the goal of the First Continental Congress?
Imperial Strength and Weakness
Know: Hessians, Tories
13. What were British strengths and weaknesses at the outset of the war?
American Pluses and Minuses
Know: George Washington, Ben Franklin, Marquis de Lafayette, Continentals
14. What were the American strengths and weaknesses at the outset of the war?
A Thin Line of Heroes
Know: Valley Forge, Baron von Steuben, Continental Army
15. What role was played by African-Americans in the Revolution?
3 comments:
Lord North: Prime minister of England
George Grenville: Prime minister of England
Letter from a Farmer in Pennsylvania: twelve letters from john dickson
Gaspee Incident: Americans torched an English ship
Charles Townshend: British politishian
Baron Von Steuben : Soldier during the American relolution
Mercantilism: People who trade in order to make a living
"Virtual" representation: Rules apposed to the British government
Sons of Liberty : People who were against the English acts.
Admiralty courts : Court for injuries or offence
Committees of Correspondence: To propose anything written outside the colonies
First Continental Congress : a convention of the twelve colonies
Loyalists (Tories): Maintains loyalty to military
1. Why does the author say that the American Revolution began when the first settlers stepped ashore? Because since the beginning of the discovery of north America there was nothing but battles.
Mercantilism and Colonial Grievances
Know: Mercantilism, Navigation Laws, Royal Veto
2. Explain the economic theory of mercantilism and the role of colonies. Merchants were people who trade goods to live.
The Merits and Menace of Mercantilism
Know: Salutary Neglect, John Hancock, Bounties
4. In what ways did the mercantilist theory benefit the colonies? They always had the goods that they needed due to the trading of merchants.
5. What economic factors were involved in leading colonists to be displeased with the British government? The colonists were taxed by England and were furious with all of the acts and taxes.
The Stamp Tax Uproar
Know: George Grenville, Sugar Act, Quartering Act, Stamp Act, Admiralty Courts, Virtual Representation
6. Why were the colonists so upset over relatively mild taxes and policies? They didn’t believe that the colonists owed England any money.
Forced Repeal of the Stamp Act
Know: Stamp Act Congress, Non- importation Agreements, Homespun, Sons of Liberty, Declaratory Act
7. In what ways did colonists resist the Stamp Act? We boycotted papers and some of us didn’t use the stamps.
The Townshend Tea Tax and the Boston "Massacre"
Know: Townshend Acts, Indirect Tax, Boston Massacre, John Adams
8. How did the Townshend Acts lead to more difficulties? The Townshend act made there less laws. The colonists thought that more laws could be passed if they did this.
The Seditious Committees of Correspondence
Know: George III, Lord North, Samuel Adams, Committees of Correspondence
Tea Brewing in Boston
Know: British East India Company, Boston Tea Party
10. What was the cause of the Boston Tea Party, and what was its significance? The tea act, the colonists were being taxed on tea so they dumped the shipment of tea into the harbor.
Parliament Passes the "Intolerable Acts"
Know: Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, Quartering Act of 1774, Quebec Act
11. What was so intolerable about the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts? The things that the colonists did to appose England were known as intolerable.
Bloodshed
Know: First Continental Congress, Declaration of Rights, The Association, Tar and Feathers, Minute Men, Lexington and Concord
Imperial Strength and Weakness
Know: Hessians, Tories
13. What were British strengths and weaknesses at the outset of the war? They had just spent all of their money on the French and Indian war. A strength is that England had much more power and was a bigger empire.
1) the author says that the American Revolution began when the first settlers sepped ashore because eventually, the fight for land between british and the settlers was too intense for them to not to start the American Revolution.
2) the economic theory of mercantilism and the role of the citizens is that mercantilism is basically the system of bartering, and the colonists are making that possible, by buying and selling products.
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4)the mercantilist theory benefited the colonists by giving them profits and always having the goods that they needed to survive
5) the economic factors that enraged the colonists to the british is only laws and taxes british gave to the colonists, just for sheer profit, and selfishness.
6) the colonists were mad over mild taxes because it was what they had made, from their conquered their land. therefore, they shouldn't have to buy their own products with their own money.
7)colonists resisted the stamp act by boycotting the stamps.
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10)the cause of the boston tea party was the tea act, and the significance of this 'party' was that they dumped crates of tea into the sea for rebellious reasons.
11)the thing that was so intolerable about the intolerable
acts was that they acutally made the act due to colonists' actions, which enraged them even more.
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13)one of the weaknesses that the british had after the war was that the british had spent all their money paying for the war, and the strength is they had ever growing empire, a powerful one at that
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