1. Explain the long-term historical factors that moved America toward independence from Britain.
2. Describe the theory and practice of mercantilism and explain why America resented it.
3. Explain why Britain attempted tighter control and taxation of Americans after 1763 and why Americans resisted these efforts.
4. Describe the major British efforts to impose taxes and tighten control of the colonies.
5. Describe the methods of colonial resistance that forced repeal of all taxes except the tax on tea.
6. Explain how sustained agitation and resistance to the tea tax led to the Intolerable Acts and the outbreak of war.
7. Assess the balance of forces between the British and the American Patriots as the two sides prepared for war.
Identity and Definition:
mercantilism
Navigation Laws
admiralty courts
virtual representation
nonimportation agreements
Committees of Correspondence
Whigs
Hessians
continentals
The Association
Minute Men
Identify or Define: John Hancock, George Grenville, Stamp Act, Sons and Daughters of Liberty, Charles Townsend, Crispus Attucks, King George III, Samuel Adams, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, Quebec Act, First Continental Congress, Marquis de Lafayette, Baron von Steuben, Quartering Act