Leading up to the Revolution U.S. History Early American Republic Leading up to the Revolution Questions To what extent were the colonists influenced by European ideas and political developments during the American Revolution? What are two ways that the Navigation Acts benefited England, and the colonies? What did Paul Revere do when he saw the British crossing the Charles River in Boston? What was Britain's reaction to the Boston Tea Party? Where did the Revolutionary War begin? What immediate action did the Second Continental Congress take in response to the fighting at Lexington and Concord? What was the agenda of the Radical Republican Reconstruction? Why did King George III issue the Proclamation of 1763? What did the Nonimportation Agreement do? How did the Sons of Liberty protest British actions? Why did most southern states not allow slaves to fight in the American Revolution? What was the Townsend Act? Why did the British plan to seize control of Albany, New York, in 1777? Why did Daniel Shays try to attack a federal building that held weapons? How did the slogan "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" sum up the goals of the Revolution? Why were Loyalists treated so harshly by supporters of the Patriot cause? Was it just the Sons of Liberty who dumped the tea or the Sons of Liberty and the colonists? What were the effects of the Boston Tea Party? What did the loyalists think of the Boston Tea Party? What were the consequences of the Boston Tea Party? What did the colonists think of the Boston Tea Party? What act did the British pass and impose on the Colonists after the Boston Tea Party? How were the colonists punished for Boston Tea Party? How did the Boston Tea Party lead to a revolution? What prompted the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party? What was the significance of the Boston tea party? What happened as a result of the Boston Tea Party? What was Tammany Hall? How did the Zenger trial affect America today? What was the name of the British law that imposed taxes on such items as newspapers and the pamphlets in the American colonies? What did the Coercive Acts close? What did the Coercive Acts ban? Why did Parliament pass the Coercive Acts? When did the Boston Tea Party take place? How did colonial leaders use the Boston Massacre as propaganda? What were the roots and significance of the Stamp Act controversy? What is the importance of sugar and molasses during the Sugar Act? Who was Bernardo de Gálvez and why was he so important to the cause of American independence? Why did more Native Americans side with the British than with the Patriots? How did the goals of the Revolution guide Americans toward a more just society after the war? The 3rd amendment was due to what pre-Revolution act? What led up to the Boston Tea Party? What eighteenth-century movement from Europe brought new ideas to the colonies? What happened as a result of the so-called Intolerable Acts? What event sparked both the formation of a distinct American identity and a severing of cultural ties to Europeans? Great Britain required more taxation from the colonies because of which event? Who was the Marquis de Lafayette? How did ideas from the Enlightenment become part of revolutionary ideology? What was the main reason that Great Britain passed the Tea Act of 1773? What impact did the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom have on the U.S. government? How did Shay's Rebellion impact the Articles of Confederation? What did the Townshend Acts (1767) do? Why was it difficult to find and keep soldiers in the Continental Army? In what way was the American Revolution social and economic conflict? What reasons might a Loyalist have for opposing the American Revolution? Why do you think European nations supported the colonists rather than Great Britain? How did many Americans react to Shay's Rebellion? What is the name of the African American killed on March 5, 1770 in the Boston Massacre? Do you think colonial outrage over the Boston Massacre was justified? Who was the American colonists most important ally during the American Revolution? Question #b98c6 When did Americans begin to resent British rule? What was the political body that represented Americans and challenged British control? How did the war go for the British before 1757? After 1757? Who do you think was at fault for the beginning of the Revolutionary War? Why were the British soldiers headed to Concord? After the Stamp Act, what did those who opposed the British taxes begin to call themselves? What was the Boston Tea Party? When did it occur? Question #d1c1a Why were the American Articles of Confederation ineffective? Why did the British raise taxes in the American colonies? How did colonists react? What did Benedict Arnold offer to the British General Clinton in New York in exchange for money in 1779? What was the significance of Shays's Rebellion in Massachusetts in early 1787? What did the 1767 Townshend Acts specify? What did protective tariffs mean to American industries? Which acts were passed in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party? How did the colonists resist British control? What are the Sugar and Stamp Acts? Why did American colonists resent British taxes? George Washington was the commander and leader of which side of the American Revolution? What percentage of the colonists were patriots? Tories? Indifferent? Why were colonial boycotts effective? How did colonists react to the Tea Act? Why did the American Revolution start? Which of these happened first: Boston Massacre, Battle of Lexington, the Boston Tea Party or the Intolerable Acts? Who was involved in the Boston Tea Party? What were reasons that the colonists protested the new acts passed by Parliament? Question #8058b How did the British Parliament respond to the Boston Tea Party? What did the Proclamation of 1763 called for? Why did the colonists choose to throw British tea in Boston Harbor? Why did Samuel Adams label the violence in Boston as a massacre? Why did England passed the Stamp Act in 1765? How did the Boston Massacre stir up rebellion in Massachusetts? Why did Paul Revere shout "the 'Regulars' are coming? What was the Committees of Correspondence? Why did King George lIl forbid colonists from setting in the Ohio River Valley atter it was gained by Britain from France? Why did the Colonist began to protest the Stamp Act? What advantages did the British hope to gain by limiting westward settlement in 1763? Who defended the British soldiers who were in the Boston Massacre? Question #fada7 How did some colonists get around the Navigation Acts? What event triggered the Proclamation of 1763? 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