Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution
Identification: People & Terms
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Republicanism
Radical Whigs
Mercantilism
Navigation Law
of 1650
George Grenville
Sugar Act of 1764
Quartering Act of
1765
Stamp Act of
1765
Admiralty courts
Virtual
representation
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Stamp Act Congress of
1765
Non-importation
agreements
Sons & Daughters of
Liberty
Declaratory Act of 1766
Townshend Acts of
1767
Crispus Attucks
Samuel Adams
Committees of
Correspondence
British East India
Company
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Thomas Hutchinson
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
Boston Port Act
Quebec Act
First Continental
Congress
The Association
Minute Men
Hessians
Marquis de Lafayette
Chapter 7 Focus Questions:
1. After 1763, what problems did retain struggle with in the New World colonies?
2. Through the theory of mercantilism, what did Britain see as the purpose of her colonies?
3. What currency problems did the colonists face? How did they try to solve this problem?
Why did the solution fail?
4. In what ways did the colonies benefit from mercantilism? What were its harms?
5. Why did Grenville believe the new taxes were both necessary and fair?
6. Why did the colonists find the new taxes egregious?
7. What was successful about the Stamp Act Congress?
8. How did colonists enforce non-importation agreements among their fellow colonists?
9. What caused the “Boston Massacre”? Who was at fault? Why?
10. Why was the Quebec Act, in particular, so intolerable?
11. What was the purpose and the result of the First Continental Congress?
12. Why were troops sent to Lexington and Concord?
13. What were the strengths and weaknesses of the British army?
14. What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Colonial army?
15. What role did African Americans play in the war? Why did many join the British?