The Loss Of The American Colonies (1770 - 83)

Question 1

After the 7 years war what financial issue did Britain face?

Answer 1

Financing the expansion of the colonies

Question 2

What did Britain believe they needed to defend the new and existing colonies?

Answer 2

A whole new army based in North America

Question 3

How did Britain fund their expanded empire after 1763?

Answer 3

By attempting to tax the American colonies

Question 4

What was the name of the duties introduced to tax the American colonies?

Answer 4

Townshend duties

Question 5

When were the Townshend duties introduced?

Answer 5

1767

Question 6

What was the American response to the Townshend duties?

Answer 6

They felt as if they were being illegally taxed and protests and boycotts around the phrase “no taxation without representation” began.

Question 7

Which group led Bostonian resistance to the Townshend duties?

Answer 7

The sons of Liberty

Question 8

Which group sparked British anger causing the Boston massacre?

Answer 8

The sons of Liberty

Question 9

What happened at the Boston massacre?

Answer 9

Civilians were shot dead by British soldiers

Question 10

What year was the Boston massacre?

Answer 10

1770

Question 11

What did the British do in 1770 to calm American anger and desire to revolt due to the Boston massacre and Townshend duties?

Answer 11

Repeal the Townshend duties

Question 12

Which duty of the Townshend duties was not repealed?

Answer 12

Tea

Question 13

Why didn’t the Boston massacre directly lead to the American war of independence?

Answer 13

20% of Americans were loyalists and 1/3 neutral

Question 14

When was the committee of correspondence set up? Why and by who?

Answer 14

Set up in Sept 1771, by Sam Adams and was a system of reporting that the British could not control.

Question 15

Why did he committee of correspondence benefit the patriots?

Answer 15

They could use it to convert neutrals into patriots.

Question 16

When and why was the tea act introduced?

Answer 16

1773, to save the east India company from bankruptcy

Question 17

What did the 1773 tea acts allow the east India company to do?

Answer 17

Trade directly with America, and compete with smuggled tea.

Question 18

What was wrong with the tea act of 1773?

Answer 18

It ignored mercantilism and the navigation acts that everything should be traded through British ports.

Question 19

When was the Boston tea party?

Answer 19

28th November 1773

Question 20

Who threw cargoes of tea overboard?

Answer 20

The sons of Liberty

Question 21

What was the worth of the tea that the sons of Liberty three overboard?

Answer 21

£10,000

Question 22

When were the coercive acts introduced?

Answer 22

1774

Question 23

What were the coercive acts intended to do?

Answer 23

Isolate Boston and force patriots into submission

Question 24

Which act shortly followed he coercive acts?

Answer 24

The Quebec act

Question 25

Why did a shift in power in America by the 1770’s cause the American war of independence?

Answer 25

The elite were loyalists who cooperated with the British and radicals wanted to rebel.

Question 26

Name 4 British policies that caused or contributed to anger later causing the American war of independence?

Answer 26

• excessive taxation
• Britain requiring more of an army
• outcome of seven years war (long term)
• ideological differences between the British and Americans over political issues.