Questions for “Liberty!”
Please record rough notes during the video, and then type up a
polished one page response covering the major issues described in
the video.
During the decade before the outbreak of war, what were the attitudes of the colonists
toward Parliament and the British Empire?
Why were many colonists glad to be a part of the British Empire?
What were the attitudes of the British nobility towards the American colonists,
including men like Washington and Franklin?
What were the reasons why the colonists reacted so strongly to the Stamp Act?
What is meant when it is said that the Patriots were “reluctant revolutionaries?”
What was revolutionary about the American Revolution?
What could have prevented the colonists’ declaring independence and going to war?