Causes Of American Revolution

Question 1

What was the stamp act 1765

Answer 1

Stamps for formal writing and printing

Duties were lower than in England and would raise £60,000 a first year and spent on colonial defence

Provoked intense reaction in America has it affected everyone and antagonise lawyers newspaper owners and printers

First direct tax by parliament seen as dangerous and unjustified action

No taxation without representation

Question 2

Stamp Act Virginia resolves

Answer 2

Seven resolutions introduced the Virginia assembly attacking act-
Five adopted colonist had the rights of Englishmen

Resolutions printed in newspapers
Gave impression Virginia rejected Stamp Act

By 1766 eight other assemblies pass the resolutions

Question 3

Stamp Act Congress act

Answer 3

June 1765 Massachusetts assembly suggested an intercolonial meeting

Stamp Act Congress met in October, 27 delegates from colonies attended they announce the Stamp Act Unclaimed only the legislation could impose taxes on them

Question 4

Stamp Act ideological debates

Answer 4

Colonists not prepared to accept taxation without representation.

Representation three parliament impractical and could make it worse

Colonist thought the act deprive them of their liberties



Question 5

Stamp Act popular protester mob action

Answer 5

Started in Boston led by Sam Adams. Using gangs of unskilled workers.

They hung Andrew Oliver effigies (stamp distributer) and other figures from trees
Mob tore down Olivers (chief justice) office and destroyed house 
Boston crowd did the same

Stamp act notified by Mob action the standing army was useless as it was far away

Question 6

Stamp Act the sons of liberty

Answer 6

Crowd action organised by them that included wealthy elites and smaller merchants

Weren’t United unlimited influence in southern colonies

Appealed for a boycott of goods

Question 7

The repeal of the stamp act

Answer 7

MPs horrified by violence against repealing it as it showed weakness

British merchants campaign for repeal alarm by boycott

General gauge said they couldn’t enforce the act so they decided to repeal the act in 1766



Question 8

The declaratory act

Answer 8

 Parliament didn’t fully abandon Parliamentary Sophie Jennetty passed this act which declared colonies were subordinate to GB and had power to make laws

Question 9

Reception of the repeal of the stamp act

Answer 9

Colonists were demanding independence of self rule in practice

Shift of power in America 

Stamp Act Mark turning point in relations

Question 10

Townshend duties 1766

Answer 10

Charles Townshend was determined to make Colonist pay their expenses

Introduced new duties in class wine China lead paint paper and tea… £40,000


Question 11

The New York restraining act

Answer 11

Military accommodation shortages occurred after the quartering act of 1765(lodging to GB soilders)

NY Refused to comply —> Towns in brought in restraining at which suspended Declan apartment until it complied

NY lacked support so gave in, towns in died suddenly in 1767
Resistance to duties grew slowly As merchants didn’t want another trade war

Question 12

Economic response in colonies To the townshend duties

Answer 12

1768 Boston organised a boycott merchants opposed so wasn’t effective.
1769 colony except New England boycotted British goods

Committee set up to enforce nonimportation merchants he didn’t comply had goods damaged

Question 13

Political response in the colonies to the Townshend duties

Answer 13

1768 Massachusetts assembly sent out a letter saying no taxation without representation

Sons of liberty reform to coordinate opposition

John Dickinson wrote an attack on the acts

Question 14

Townshend duties protest and unrest in Boston

Answer 14

Board of customers and commissioners in Boston was a target for protests
1768 sons of liberty were revived and organised protests against custom officials
Bostonians harassed by British soldiers and newspapers for located stories of brutality and brawls were common

Question 15

The Boston massacre

Answer 15

1770 March Accustoms informer killed 11-year-old boy in a riot

Battles broke out between soldiers and workers troops open fire and killed five Bostonians

Sons of liberty uses propaganda to suggest deliberate massacre

Question 16

The situation in 1770

Answer 16

Not enough troops to impose order
Relationships are broken down
Colonists weren’t totally United and horrified by Mob action
Duties were penalising British exports and trade with USA

Lord North oversaw the repeal of duties except tea


Question 17

Consequences of crisis Townshrnd duties and B massacre

Answer 17

NY abandon nonimportation and other colonies followed three years of trade resumed

However Colin is Work United disputes over land boundaries with New York and NH

Tensions between rich and poor

Small civil wars in southern colonies

Question 18

How do the British and the colonist attempt to improve the relationship through actions of the British and actions of the colonists

Answer 18

Question 19

To what extent was clean your distance between 1767 and 1770 similar to that in 1765

Answer 19

Question 20

Why do tensions increase and relations between Britain and the American colonies deteriorate further between 1766 to 1770

Actions of the British

Answer 20

Question 21

Why did tensions increase and relations between Britain and America Colonists deteriorate further between 1766 in 1770

Answer 21

Question 22

Tea act 1773

Answer 22

GB introduced Tea act to save the near bankrupt east India company

Act abolished tax on the companies well still having to pay tax on imported Tea

T sold by the company was so cheap

Colonist wouldn’t buy tea until duty was removed

Colonist believed it was a destructive of independence Tea was rejected and sent back to England

Question 23

The Boston tea party

Answer 23

November 1773 is three ships with T worth of £10,000 into Boston harbour

16th of December 60 sons of Liberty Disguises Native Americans boarded the ship and through the tea into the water

Question 24

British reaction to Boston tea party

Answer 24

Coercive acts/intolerable acts
Even those things sympathetic to the colonies refuse to defend the tea party

Question 25

The coercive acts(Intolerable acts) early 1774:

Answer 25

 Boston port act-Closed Boston To all trade until the destruction was paid for
Massachusetts government act-Governor could appoint/remove several officials town meetings held without permission

Impartial Administration act -Murder trials to GB courts

New quartering act -Forder authority to military commanders seeking house troops.

Question 26

Québec act June 1774

Answer 26

Authority in region hands of governor without elected assembly
Limited trial by jury
Threat to convince liberties as a blueprint for Britain wanted to rule
Send an attempt to limit westward expansion

Question 27

American reaction to coercive acts

Answer 27

A threat to all colonies people sent money and food help Bostonians

In 1774 New Yorkers found T on board a ship copied the Boston tea party

Question 28

Economic response to the coercive acts

Answer 28

Boston tell meeting asked to boycott of British goods until the port act was repealed



Question 29

Political response to the coercive acts

Answer 29

Assemblies tell meetings in newspapers denounce actions of GB

Propaganda persuaded colonists for common action

Question 30

What role did political leaders playing the development of opposition to British rule: Samuel Adams

Answer 30

Realise colonial leaders were unable to challenge Britain without popular support
United gangs in Boston to work against Acts
Possibly played important role in planning Boston tea party in leading opposition to coercive acts

Question 31

What role did American political leaders play in the development of opposition to British rule?
John Dickinson

Answer 31

Pennsylvania lawyer and politician who believe that parliament could regulate trade but not tax without consent

‘Letters of Pennsylvania in farmer’ which proves theoretical justification for actions taken by Sam Adams

Question 32

What role did political American leaders play in the development of opposition to British rule?
Thomas Jefferson

Answer 32

Principal author of the Declaration of Independence

Criticise the fact that the Electrote in England could legislate for America

review of the rights of British America Influence people towards Independence

Question 33

What role did American political leaders playing the development of opposition to British rule?  Thomas Paine

Answer 33

Arrived in America 1774

Publish commonsense selling 100,000 copies in 1776

Common sense is accessible to most Americans

Convince them of breaking ties with Britain on the way to stop the abuse of their liberties 

Question 34

What role did American political leaders playing the development of opposition to British rule? John Adams

Answer 34

Boston lawyer and cousin of Samuel Adams
Known continental Congress representative of Massachusetts
Play the leading role in clearing on independence

Question 35

Who was responsible for the breakdown in the relationship between Britain and the colonists

Answer 35

Question 36

How important it is in bringing about the split between Britain and the colonies John Locke

Answer 36

An English political theorist who made contributions to develop meant of liberalism

He said the government was by the consent of the governed as a means to protect life liberty and estate. He believed in democracy

Question 37

How did colonist minute play opinion

Answer 37

Illiteracy rate educational opportunities a number of booksellers in colonies

Thomas Paine’s pamphlet common sense which put forward independence arguments largest book sale of any book American history

Many leaders exploited political ideas even if I meant misrepresenting British policy