HONORS US HISTORY Honors US History Chapter 7-The Road to Revolution A. Schedule: 1. Monday-Chapter Discussion 2. Tuesday-Complete chapter discussion, work on items 3. Wednesday-Terms due, partner work with questions 4. Thursday-Study questions due, discuss in class 5. Friday-Test Ch 6-7 B. Chapter Learning Objectives: 1. Explain the deeply rooted historical factors that moved America towards 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 American rebels as the two sides prepared for war. C. Vocabulary: 1. John Hancock 2. Lord North 3. George Grenville 4. Samuel Adams 5. Charles Townshend 6. John Adams 7. Crispus Attucks 8. Marquis de Lafayette 9. King George III 10. Baron von Steuben 11. Mercantilism 12. Boycott 13. ‘Virtual’ Representation 14. Nonimportation Agreement 15. Sons of Liberty 16. Quebec Act 17. Navigation Acts 18. Declaratory Act 19. First Continental Congress 20. Sugar Act 21. Townshend Acts 22. Quartering Act 23. Boston Massacre 24. Stamp Act 25. Committees of Correspondence 26. Hessians 27. Admiralty Courts 28. Boston Tea Party 29. Loyalists Honors US History P a g e | 1 30. Stamp Act Congress 31. Intolerable Acts 32. “Continental” D. Study Questions: 1. Explain why the American colonies moved from loyalty to protest to rebellion in the twelve years following the end of the French and Indian War. 2. How and why did the Americans and the British differ in their views of taxation and of the relationship of the colonies to the empire? 3. What was the theory and practice of mercantilism? What were its actual effects on the colonies, and why did the colonists resist it so much? 4. What methods did the colonists use in their struggle with British authorities, and how did the British try to counteract them? 5. What advantages and disadvantages did the American rebels and the British EACH possess as the war began? What did each side do to mobilize its resources most effectively? 6. Both the British and the colonists were devoted to the principle of “No taxation without representation.” This being true, how did both taxation and representation become major sources of controversy between the colonists and Parliament? 7. What is meant by the term “benign neglect”? i. How does this fit with the idea of “virtual representation”? 8. Given the history of the colonies’ founding and British “benign neglect” until the period just before the Revolution, was the American Revolution inevitable? Or could the thirteen colonies have remained peacefully attached to Britain for many years, as Canada did? Honors US History P a g e | 2 .