American History - Chapter 4 – Section 1, 2 and 3
***Use the French Revolution Questions given in class as the study guide for the first part.***
Much of what is asked is straight from your notes. Please be sure to review all sections along with your
textbook vocabulary.
Causes of the American Revolution
What is mercantilism?
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Know that raw materials were sent to England and finished product was sent back and sold
to the colonies
What are the Navigation acts?
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How do they change throughout time as we get closer to the revolution?
What kinds of taxes were imposed?
How did this cause corruption? (through the policy of mercantilism)
Why was taxation increasing post French and Indian War?
Why are the British citizens becoming upset with the taxation? – Paying for a war that isn’t theirs to pay
for.
What four part plan does George Grenville devise? (KNOW WHAT EACH OF THE FOUR BELOW ARE)
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Navigation acts
Sugar act
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
What was the Stamp Act?
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What did it do?
What was it placed on?
What does “taxation without representation,” mean?
Why are boycotts used?
o Also understand how tax collectors were harassed for doing their job
What are the Sons of Liberty?
What is the Stamp Act Congress and what did they try to do?
Who eventually forced that the Stamp Act be repealed after the colonist boycotts?
What is the Declaratory Act?
What is the Townshend Act? (Remember that Townshend is a new Prime Minister that thinks the
colonist are not smart and thinks that by changing the acts he will trick them into paying taxes)
What are Mass Circular Letters?
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Why were colonists told that they could not read them?
When are regiments sent to Boston from King George?
What was the Boston Massacre?
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What did it start over?
How many people were killed?
What did John Adams say that each soldier deserved?
Why is the Tea Act implemented?
What did it give the British East Indian Company permission to do and why did they do this?
What was the colonial reaction?
What was the Boston Tea Party?
Why was it is important?
What were the Intolerable Acts and what are they also known as? (Britain calls them the Coercive Acts)
How is it related to the Boston Tea Party?
How does it bring about the First Continental Congress?
What was the First Continental Congress and what was their four part paln?
What did the Committees of Correspondence do?
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Be sure to remember that they also called for a meeting the next year to review the state of
their plan.
The American Revolution
What is the Shot heard round the world?
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Where was the war started?
What did it start over?
Who won this first battle?
What was Paul Revere’s role in this?
What is the Second Continental Congress?
What happened in this meeting?
What is “Common Sense” and who wrote it?
What was its purpose?
What is the Deceleration of Independence?
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Who wrote most of it?
What day was it signed?
What did it represent?