Read Chapter 4 Section 1 in the RED TEXTBOOK (pp. 94-101), and complete the following:
Questions:
- What were some of the changes made in British taxation of the American colonies after the French and Indian War?
- What were the provisions of the Stamp Act? Why was this law distinctive from the other laws passed during the Grenville administration?
- Describe the legal, financial, and social factors connected to the American resistance to the Stamp Act?
- How did the issuance of writs of assistance contribute to the constitutional conflict over the Stamp Act in Massachusetts?
- Why did Americans resist the trade tax imposed on them by the Townsend Acts even though it was an external tax?
- Explain the meaning of the "propaganda" and use the Boston Massacre as an example of the employment of propaganda by patriots in Boston.
- What were the causes of the Boston Tea Party?
- What did King George set out to achieve when he disciplined Massachusetts?
- What were the major issues addressed by the First Continental Congress?
- Why were the opening shots fired by the Minutemen at Lexington and Concord referred to as the shots heard 'round the world?
Chapter ID's
| Stamp Act (1765) | * Committees of Correspondence |
| * Samuel Adams | * Tea Act (1773) |
| * Sons of Liberty | * Boston Tea Party |
| * Patrick Henry | * Intolerable Acts (1774) |
| * Declaratory Act (1766) | * quartering of troops |
| * Townsend Acts (1767) | * martial law |
| * spinning bees | * First Continental Congress |
| * Crispus Attucks | * Minutemen |
| * Boston Massacre | * "shot heard 'round the world" |
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