Chapter 2
Section 1
pp. 56-61
Growing Discontent
The British decided to stop settlement west of the Appalachian Mts. and at
the same time impose new taxes. This led to widespread protests throughout the
colonies.
Answer each of the following questions:
1. Describe England’s financial situation after 1763?
2. What did the English have to pay for?
3. What did the English want the colonies to pay for?
The Proclamation of 1763- On the map, draw a line for the boundary
of the Proclamation of 1763.
Answer the following questions:
1. What Indian chief went to war against the British in 1763?
2. What other Indian groups attacked forts along the frontier?
3. Why didn’t this surprise the British?
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What would a war disrupt?
What was the best solution to the problem?
What did the Proclamation of 1763 state?
What groups did this enrage and why?
Customs Reforms:
8. What titles did Grenville hold?
9. What were merchants doing that caused
Grenville to create new courts?
10. Why did the courts favor the smugglers?
11. Who was tried by the Vice-Admiralty courts?
12. What was Adam’s argument in support of Hancock?
The Sugar Act
13. What was another name for the American Revenue Act of 1764?
14. What items were taxed under this act? (7)
15. What was the merchants chief complaint?
16. What happened to the property of the merchants?
17. What judicial rule was skipped in some circumstances?
18. What did James Otis argue in his pamphlet?
19. Name the expression associated with Otis?
20. How did Parliament respond to inflation?
21. What did this act ban?
22. Why did the farmers and artisans like paper money?
23. What act did Parliament pass to raise even more money?
24. What items were taxed? (4)
25. How was the Stamp Act different from other taxes?
26. What resolution did the Virginia House of Burgesses pass?
27. Describe some of the shenanigans of the Sons of Liberty?
28. How many colonies went to the Stamp Act Congress?
29. Describe the Declaration of Rights and Grievances and tell who drafted it?
30. What two things did the Stamp Act Congress ask?
31. Name 4 things that the colonists did when the Stamp Act went into effect?
32. List 3 things that the boycott affected in Britain?
33. In 1767, What was Britain’s financial picture like?
34 Who was Charles Townshend?
35. List three taxes or regulations enacted by the Townshend Act?
36. How did the colonists react to the Townshend Acts?
37. What did John Dickinson publish in 1767-1768?
38. What did he call for in this document?
39. How long did it take for Massachusetts to organize resistance?
40. Who led the resistance?
41. What happened in August 1768?
42. What did Virginia’s House of Burgesses pass in May 1769?
43. Name the leaders who called members to a convention?
44. What did Americans stop doing?
45. Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
46. By 1769, what happened to colonial imports?
47. List the series of events that caused the Boston Massacre.
48. Who was the first to die?