AP Ch 7 Notes answers.doc

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England wins the Seven Years War has all of this

new territory, can expand almost at will throughout theworld without challenge Parliament begins to think the

merican !olonies need to be reexamined and brought to

heel

Additional causes for revolution

"n higher circles, theme of #republicanism$

pushed by %asons and Whigs&who later become the'epublican party( began to take hold) n focus on

personal liberties and freedoms being obstructed by random

acts of a tyrant king began to dominant political

conversations

"n *ritish political circles #mercantilism$

became the dominant theme) Parliament became obsessedwith controlling trade and adding to the national treasury)

merican colonies+colonists were supposed to be

producing goods for the Empire and providing a market

for finished goods made in England)

ll merican goods sold abroad were to go

through *ritish merchants and *ritish markets &often

pricing the colonists right out of the market()

Coinage:deficit in the colonies, but not allowed

to create own &nor was any created for them(


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!rown could vetoany colonial law &as long as it

was seen as conflicting with trade -. times, effecting

/,0-1 laws(

2ueling states of greed, in which one player held

all the cards)

England3s war debt was huge since mericans had

benefited from "mperial protection, without paying the cost,

Prime %inister George Grenvillethought it was only fairfor the mericans to bear their fair share of the burden

merican3s disagreed &settlements left for forts,

militia punished and ridiculed(

Navigation Act:all commerce to be on *ritish vessels

Sugar Act:4ax on foreign sugar &used in rum production(

Quartering Act:Soldiers in homes &especially 5ew

England( at home owners expense &4ypical 'ed !oat(

Why large new army 64E' the war was over, "ndian

tribes crushed and 6rench driven away7

The Stamp Act:all legal documents with two pence tax


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%ost colonial violations3 trials in admiralty courts8

military courts were you had to prove innocence and a

soldiers3 word was considered evidence

9E'Y upsetting, trial by :ury was a right afforded

even *ritish servants that were not citi;ens

lso 5< 4=4"


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3! ./plain how Sam Adams4 Thomas "utchinson4

(ritish .ast 5ndia Compan'4 +arliament4 and the

(oston Tea +art' are all connected

6! ./plain the 5ntolerable Acts and how the' directl'

ma' have started the American 7evolution

8! What did the 9eclaration of 7ights and the irst

Continental Congress tr' to achieve4 how was it

received$

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