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Change in colonial policy by the British government that helped precipitate the American Revolution involved... |
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| Compelling the American colonists to shoulder some of the financial costs of the empire |
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The American colonial exponents of rebublicanisim argued that a just society depends on |
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| a willingness to subordinate private intrests to the common good |
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Rebublicans looked to the models of the ______ for examples of a just society |
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Under mercantilist doctrine, the American colonies were expected to do all of the following except |
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| become economically self-sufficient as soon as possible |
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The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to |
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| raise money to support new military forces needed for colonial defense |
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All of the folowing were actions taken by the colonists that helped them unite exept |
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| acceptance of the Navigation laws |
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Virtual Reprentation meant that |
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| every member of parliment represented all British subjects |
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#8 As a result of American opposituion to the Townshend Acts |
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Match the discriptions with the person
1. Casualty of the Boston massacre
2. a foreign volunteer who drilled American troops during the War of Independence
3. a pamphleteer who first organized committees to exchange ideas and information on resisting British policy
4. a Massachusetts politician who opposed the moderates' solution to the imperial crisis at the First Continental Congress |
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Samuel Adams-4
John Adams-4
Crispus Attucks-1 |
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The local committees of correspondence organized by Samuel Adams |
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| kept opposition to the British alive, through exchange of propaganda |
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The Boston Tea Party of 1773 was |
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| not the only such protest to occur |
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The Quebec Act was espcially unpopular in the American colonies because it did all of the folowing exept |
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| deny the French the right to retain many of their old customs |
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The most memorable of the responses to the Intolerable Acts was |
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| The summoning of the First Continental Congress in 1774 |
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The First Continental Congress |
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| called for a compleate boycott of British goods |
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As a result of Parliament's rejection of the petitions of the Continental Congress |
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| fighting and bloodshed took place, and war began |
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The Effects of the American Revolution
The Revolution as a Social Movment document
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| The American Revolution qualifies as a social movment |
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The Effects of the American Revolution
The Revolution as a Social Movment
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a.Revolutionary power was mostly middle class ==>leveling democracy
b.sufferage was extended
c.Estates were taken away from Loyalists
d. there were some anti-slavery groups/states
e. America changed politically w/o king
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The Effects of the American Revolution
The Revolution as a Social Movment
Aurthor's conclusion |
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| Although not as darastic as the french Revolution, the American revolution had a social effect. |
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The Effects of the American Revolution
The Revolution as a Social Movment
important notes |
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-a presuasive essay
-evidence is shaky
-easly argued against
-shows that the American Revolution was indeed a much "lighter" revolution |
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The Path To Revolution
British Action: Proclamation of 1763
Colonial Reaction: resentment and failure to comply |
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B Rational: closed of frontire to colonial expansion=calm fear of Indians
C retional: strong resentment (prize fromFrench and Indian war taken away) |
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The Path To Revolution
British Action:Sugar Act
Colonial Reaction: Boston experimented with boycotts |
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B. Rational: improve english economy+ pay for French Indian War
C. Rational: was not a fair tax,, declined rum trade for colonies |
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The Path To Revolution
British Action: Currency act
Colonial Reaction: Smoldering resentment |
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B. rational: British were unconfertable with unregulated money sytem in colonies
C. Reaction: suffered trade defict+ shortage of hard money (silver+gold) |
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The Path To Revolution
British Action:Stamp Act
Colonial Reaction:petitions, boycott, violence |
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B. Rational: asserting their governmental authority over colonies, getting mosey--> right to tax them
C. Rational:no right to tax colonies, not part of British parliment, wanted trial by jury of peers (admiralty courts:run by British) |
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The Path To Revolution
British Action: Quatering Act
Colonial Reaction: Protest in assemblies |
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B. Rational:to find smuggled goods, British didn't want to have to pay for room+board for their soldiors
C. Rational: in addition to smuggeled goods, colonists actually had guns and wepons (OH SHNAP!!!) -->ready for war |
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The Path To Revolution
British Action:Repeal of Stamp Act and passage of declatory act
Colonial Reaction: rejocing over repleal;ignoring Declaratory Act |
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B. Rational: so colonists would stop Boycotting
D act: show still had authority despite repeal
C. Rational:thought they had won |
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The Path To Revolution
British Action: Townshend duties (indirect tax as oppsosed to direct stamo tax)
Colonial Reaction: boycotts, petitions, newspaper attacks |
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B. rational: take power from colonial officials
C. Rational: wanted their power +independence back:didnt care if it was indirect--> principal of taxing |
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The Path To Revolution
British Action: Tea Act
Colonial Reaction: Protest, Boston Tea Party, boycott |
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B. Rational: prop up east india tea company which needed financial aid
C. Rational:taxation without represnentation |
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The Path To Revolution
British Action: Coerecive or "Intolerable" Acts
Colonial Reaction: boycott, convening First Continental Congress |
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B. Rational: punish Boston Tea party, lost lots of $$
C. Rational: lost most liberties, wanted rewards from F+I war |
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The Path To Revolution
British Action: Lexington and Concord
Colonial Reaction: Paine's "Common Sense" |
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B. Rational: warn the colonists
C. Rational: spread word of independence to coloies |
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The Path To Revolution
What kind of adjustment might the British have made to halt the escalation of the colonial rebellion? |
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| Given the colonists representation in parliment |
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The Path To Revolution
What kind of retreat would the colonists hae had to make to be acceptable to Britan? |
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| Accept that the British rule over them |
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The Path To Revolution
Explain the lack of meaningful comprimise between Britain and the colonies in the years between 1763 and 1776? |
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| The British and the colonists are never on the same page and do not understand each other's reasoning |
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The Path To Revolution
Was the dominant concern of the colonists economic or political? Explain. |
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| Economic because they really only wanted the taxes to be gone and used freedom as an excuse. |
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The Path To Revolution
What role did the:
a.Inept Britsh officials
b.Dedicated Radicals
c.Responsible Moderates
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A. Angered the colonists because they could not understand what the colonists wanted and were very stubbon in assirting their power
B. They encoraged the behavior and rebellion yet increased ignorance among colonists
C. They wre the brains behind the revolution and used radicals as covers for economic agendas |
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Which was the most important in the revolution?
a.Inept Britsh officials
b.Dedicated Radicals
c.Responsible Moderates
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| C: when moderates shift from compromise to opposition=BAD situation-->rbellion/revolution is comming |
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