1770-73 'Years of Calm'

Question 1

1. What did the British repeal?
2. What were conservative Americans increasingly concerned by?
3. Imports from Britain _______ between 1770 and 73.
4. Lord North avoided _____, and Americans were not ______ against British.

Answer 1

1. Townshend Duties.
2. Resort to mob action.
3. Doubled.
4. Conflict, united.

Question 2

1. What did the British maintain?
2. What happened in 1772 - explain in brief detail.
3. In 1771, what did Sam Adams create?

Answer 2

1. Tax on tea.
2. 1772 Gasby Incident - colonists forced crew off a grounded British ship and burned it.
3. Committees of Correspondence.