Leading up to the Revolution

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• To what extent were the colonists influenced by European ideas and political developments during the American Revolution?
• What are two ways that the Navigation Acts benefited England, and the colonies?
• What did Paul Revere do when he saw the British crossing the Charles River in Boston?
• What was Britain's reaction to the Boston Tea Party?
• Where did the Revolutionary War begin?
• What immediate action did the Second Continental Congress take in response to the fighting at Lexington and Concord?
• What was the agenda of the Radical Republican Reconstruction?
• Why did King George III issue the Proclamation of 1763?
• What did the Nonimportation Agreement do?
• How did the Sons of Liberty protest British actions?
• Why did most southern states not allow slaves to fight in the American Revolution?
• What was the Townsend Act?
• Why did the British plan to seize control of Albany, New York, in 1777?
• Why did Daniel Shays try to attack a federal building that held weapons?
• How did the slogan "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" sum up the goals of the Revolution?
• Why were Loyalists treated so harshly by supporters of the Patriot cause?
• Was it just the Sons of Liberty who dumped the tea or the Sons of Liberty and the colonists?
• What were the effects of the Boston Tea Party?
• What did the loyalists think of the Boston Tea Party?
• What were the consequences of the Boston Tea Party?
• What did the colonists think of the Boston Tea Party?
• What act did the British pass and impose on the Colonists after the Boston Tea Party?
• How were the colonists punished for Boston Tea Party?
• How did the Boston Tea Party lead to a revolution?
• What prompted the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party?
• What was the significance of the Boston tea party?
• What happened as a result of the Boston Tea Party?
• What was Tammany Hall?
• How did the Zenger trial affect America today?
• What was the name of the British law that imposed taxes on such items as newspapers and the pamphlets in the American colonies?
• What did the Coercive Acts close?
• What did the Coercive Acts ban?
• Why did Parliament pass the Coercive Acts?
• When did the Boston Tea Party take place?
• How did colonial leaders use the Boston Massacre as propaganda?
• What were the roots and significance of the Stamp Act controversy?
• What is the importance of sugar and molasses during the Sugar Act?
• Who was Bernardo de Gálvez and why was he so important to the cause of American independence?
• Why did more Native Americans side with the British than with the Patriots?
• How did the goals of the Revolution guide Americans toward a more just society after the war?
• The 3rd amendment was due to what pre-Revolution act?
• What led up to the Boston Tea Party?
• What eighteenth-century movement from Europe brought new ideas to the colonies?
• What happened as a result of the so-called Intolerable Acts?
• What event sparked both the formation of a distinct American identity and a severing of cultural ties to Europeans?
• Great Britain required more taxation from the colonies because of which event?
• Who was the Marquis de Lafayette?
• How did ideas from the Enlightenment become part of revolutionary ideology?
• What was the main reason that Great Britain passed the Tea Act of 1773?
• What impact did the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom have on the U.S. government?
• How did Shay's Rebellion impact the Articles of Confederation?
• What did the Townshend Acts (1767) do?
• Why was it difficult to find and keep soldiers in the Continental Army?
• In what way was the American Revolution social and economic conflict?
• What reasons might a Loyalist have for opposing the American Revolution?
• Why do you think European nations supported the colonists rather than Great Britain?
• How did many Americans react to Shay's Rebellion?
• What is the name of the African American killed on March 5, 1770 in the Boston Massacre?
• Do you think colonial outrage over the Boston Massacre was justified?
• Who was the American colonists most important ally during the American Revolution?
• Question #b98c6
• When did Americans begin to resent British rule?
• What was the political body that represented Americans and challenged British control?
• How did the war go for the British before 1757? After 1757?
• Who do you think was at fault for the beginning of the Revolutionary War?
• Why were the British soldiers headed to Concord?
• After the Stamp Act, what did those who opposed the British taxes begin to call themselves?
• What was the Boston Tea Party? When did it occur?
• Question #d1c1a
• Why were the American Articles of Confederation ineffective?
• Why did the British raise taxes in the American colonies? How did colonists react?
• What did Benedict Arnold offer to the British General Clinton in New York in exchange for money in 1779?
• What was the significance of Shays's Rebellion in Massachusetts in early 1787?
• What did the 1767 Townshend Acts specify?
• What did protective tariffs mean to American industries?
• Which acts were passed in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party?
• How did the colonists resist British control?
• What are the Sugar and Stamp Acts?
• Why did American colonists resent British taxes?
• George Washington was the commander and leader of which side of the American Revolution?
• What percentage of the colonists were patriots? Tories? Indifferent?
• Why were colonial boycotts effective?
• How did colonists react to the Tea Act?
• Why did the American Revolution start?
• Which of these happened first: Boston Massacre, Battle of Lexington, the Boston Tea Party or the Intolerable Acts?
• Who was involved in the Boston Tea Party?
• What were reasons that the colonists protested the new acts passed by Parliament?
• Question #8058b
• How did the British Parliament respond to the Boston Tea Party?
• What did the Proclamation of 1763 called for?
• Why did the colonists choose to throw British tea in Boston Harbor?
• Why did Samuel Adams label the violence in Boston as a massacre?
• Why did England passed the Stamp Act in 1765?
• How did the Boston Massacre stir up rebellion in Massachusetts?
• Why did Paul Revere shout "the 'Regulars' are coming?
• What was the Committees of Correspondence?
• Why did King George lIl forbid colonists from setting in the Ohio River Valley atter it was gained by Britain from France?
• Why did the Colonist began to protest the Stamp Act?
• What advantages did the British hope to gain by limiting westward settlement in 1763?
• Who defended the British soldiers who were in the Boston Massacre?
• Question #fada7
• How did some colonists get around the Navigation Acts?
• What event triggered the Proclamation of 1763?