American Revolution

Intolerable Acts, First Continental Congress, and Common Sense published all occurred during ______.

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• The Era of Good Feelings

• The Revolutionary Era

How did the American colonists IMMEDIATELY respond to the closing of Boston Harbor and quartering act?

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• The First Continental Congress Declared war on Great Britain

• The First Continental Congress sent a list of grievances to King George III

Why was the Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions adopted?

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• Colonists were upset by the punishment imposed after the Boston Tea Party

• Colonists were opposed to colonial laws being created only by parliament

Why did Parliament pass the Sugar, Stamp, and Townshend Acts?

• To encourage foreign trade with the colonies

• To recover the cost of defending the colonies

How did mercantilist policies create tension between Great Britain and the colonies?

• By preventing colonists from trading with most other foreign countries

• By limiting the amount of farmland each colonist could have

What is the IMMEDIATE effect of Parliament passing the Stamp Act of 1765?

• Colonists organized boycotts of British goods

• Colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor

How did the Sugar, Quartering, and Stamp Act start the Revolutionary War?

• angering colonists who believed that their civil liberties had been violated

• punishing colonists for resisting the authority of Parliament

British colonists objected to the Proclamation of 1763 because they -

• resented the limits it imposed on westward expansion

• wanted to be able to trade freely with foreign nations

The Continental Congress issued the commission to appoint which person as General and Commander in chief?

• Alexander Hamilton

• George Washington

What prompted General Washington to write: "...this Army must inevitably be reduced to one or other of these three things: Starve, dissolver, or disperse..."

• A shortage of Continental soldiers to maintain the siege of Yorktown

• Concern for the Continental troops during the winter at Valley Forge