Events Leading to American Revolution

How did the American Colonies react to enforcement of the Intolerable (Coercive) Acts?

• By collecting funds to pay for the tea destroyed in Boston Harbor.

• By Sending ambassadors to France to request military aid

• By placing tax on all goods imported from Great Britain

• By holding the First Continental Congress to discuss unified resistance.

Resolved, that the taxation of the people by themselves, or by persons chosen by themselves to represent them ... is the only security against a burdensome taxation... ---- Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions, May 30, 1765

Which Statement BEST explains why this resolution was adopted?

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

• Colonists created this in order to address the causes of the Boston Massacre.

• Colonists were opposed to colonial laws being created only by Parliament.

• Colonists wanted to expand powers given to governors appointed by King George III.

What was the Primary Reason Parliament passed these acts?

1764 -- Sugar Act

1765 -- Stamp Act

1767 -- Townshend Acts

• To promote the growth of cottage industries in the colonies

• To encourage foreign trade with the colonies

• To recover the cost of defending the colonies

• To fund the establishment of new colonies

How did mercantilist policies create tensions between Great Britain and the Colonies?

• By introducing indentured servitude to the middle colonies

• By requiring colonists to enlist in the military

• By limiting the amount of farmland each colonist could have

• By preventing the colonists from trading with most other foreign countries.

Cause-- Parliament passed the Stamp Act of 1765

Immediate Effect --- ?

Which of the following best completes this Cause/Effect Relationship?

• Colonists sought military support from France.

• Colonists organized boycotts of British goods.

• Colonists signed the Declaration of Independence.

• Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor.

• * Sugar Act

• * Quartering Act

• * Stamp Act

These Acts contributed to the start of the Revolutionary War by ---

• restricted colonial trade with American Indians

• imposing regulations on colonial agriculture

• 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 ---

• feared it would provoke attacks from American Indians

• did not want to share control of the fur trade with France

• resented the limits it imposed on westward expansion

• wanted to be able to trade freely with foreign nations