Name: ___________________
Date: ___________________
Hour: ___________________
Birth of Colonial Resentment
Using your text book, answer the following prompt
1. How and why did Salutary Neglect end after the French and Indian War?
2. What was the purpose of the taxes England enacted in the colonies?
3. What was the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and how did it cause resentment? Did
the Colonist follow it?
4. Who was George Greenville and why did the colonist resent him?
5. What was the Revenue (Sugar) Act of 1764, how did it create resentment? What
was the primary purpose of the Sugar Act?
6. What was the Stamp Act of 1765, how did it create resentment? Why did English
customs agents resign or refuse to enforce the Stamp Act?
7. What was the Stamp Act Congress and what declaration did they generate? What
did it state?
8. What was the Declaratory Act and how did it impact the colonies? Why did the
English Parliament pass it?
9. Who was George III?
10. What was Charles Townshend?
11. What were the Townshend Acts and what was there purpose? How did the the
Daughters of Liberty respond to them?
12. Who was John Dickinson and what was his Letters from a Farmer in
Pennsylvania (Dickinson’s Letter) and what did they argue?
13. What does “No Taxation without Representation” mean?
14. Who were the Sons of Liberty and Sam Adams?
15. What was the Adams-Otis Letter?
16. What was the Boston Massacre (include date)?
17. Who was Crispus Attucks?
18. What impact did the Boston Massacre have on colonial resistance and Sam
Adams and the Sons of Liberty?
19. What was the Tea Act and why did the English keep it in place after they have
repealed all other taxes?
20. What was the Committee of Correspondence and how did it help keep the simmer
of resent alive?
21. How did the Tea Tax give the English East India Company an unfair advantage in
the Tea Trade? How did this impact colonial tea merchants and the colonist?
22. What was the Boston Tea Party (include date)?
23. What were the colonist dressed like at the Tea Party?
24. What was the purpose of the Coercive Acts (Intolerable) Acts of 1774 and how
did they further resentment towards the British?
o Boston Port Act
o Act for the Impartial Administration of Justice
o Quartering Act
o Massachusetts Government Act
25. What was the Quebec Act and how did it enrage the colonist?
26. What contradiction/hypocrisy exists about the colonist call for liberty and
freedom?
27. What was the Continental Congress (include date)?
28. What was the Suffolk Resolves?
29. What was the Declaration of American Rights?
30. What was the Continental Association of 1774?
31. What impact did the Continental Congress have on the King of England?