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Mr. Brush

A.P. United States History

APQ#2-Outline-Causes of the American Revolution: 1650-1774

The French and Indian War

• In recognition of its significance to them, the French began building forts here in 1753:

• The most immediate objective of the Albany Congress was to improve relations with

• the following was a result of the Albany Congress: The Iroquois remained ________ and the colonists _____________________________

• A major impact of the French and Indian War on the attitudes of the Americans was with the threat of the French now gone from their borders, many colonists now felt that English protection was __________________and they felt free to take a more independent stand toward Britain than they had taken previously

• As a result of the British victory in the French and Indian War France

By the 1750’s, the British colonies on the North American mainland were

characterized by many religious denominations, an entrenched tie to mercantilism, a growing number of non-English settlers and acceptance of slavery as labor source

• The primary purpose of the Proclamation of 1763 was to avoid conflict with

Grenville Tax Program

• He did not want to reward the colonies through the extension of “salutary neglect”

• The Sugar Act of 1764 represented a major shift in British policy toward the colonies in that, for the first time, the British levied

• The Stamp Act of 1765 was a

• The British response to the American claim of “taxation without representation” was to claim that Parliament recognized colonial concerns by ________________; The principle of actual representation put forth by the American colonists in their resistance to the Stamp Act meant that representatives must be residents of the geographic districts they represented

• The primary weapon of boycott that colonial opponents of various revenue acts used to force their repeal was

• The Stamp Act Congress was significant because it marked an important step

• Virginia Resolves; Instructions of the town of Braintree on the Stamp Act

• The Virginia Resolves

Declaratory Act

• The Declaratory Act was passed to

• The key issue that prevented the American colonists from resolving their problems with England without open rebellion was the sovereignty of Parliament’s edicts over the colonies

Townshend Duties/Taxes

• The British government imposed the Townsend Acts on American colonies in the belief that the Americans would

• The Sugar Act and the Townshend Acts differed from the previously passed Navigation Acts in that both the Sugar and Townshend Acts were designed to raise money from the colonies by taxing goods imported directly from England. The Navigation Acts only forced the colonies to trade directly with Mother England, with no purpose to raise revenue.

• Parliament repealed the Stamp Act and the Townsend duties because

• John Dickinson’s Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer-“We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in our property if, without our consent, others may, as a right, take it away; taxes imposed on us by Parliament do thus take it away.”

• grievances of the Western frontiersmen (Paxton Boys and Regulator Movement) against ruling aristocracy in the various colonies were lack of adequate representation in the assemblies, lack of support in fighting Native Americans and extortionate taxation

Boston Problems

• Boston Massacre

• When the colonial Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson attempted to force the sale of taxed tea in Boston in 1773, Bostonians reacted with the Boston Tea Party

• the purposes of the Tea Act of 1773 was to save

• The Coercive Acts were passed in reaction to the

• The Declaration of Rights (adapted from the Suffolk Resolves by the delegates to the First Continental Congress) declared the

Quebec Act

• Catholicism was accepted as the official religion of French Quebec; Americans were suspicious that the non-representative assembly established in Quebec would set a precedent for British rule in the American colonies; Americans were angry that Quebec’s territory was extended to the Ohio River; it was an attempt to incorporate the French Canadians into the British North American Empire

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