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British America, 1713–83: Empire and Revolution

American colonist relations with Britain: growing opposition, 1765-75

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The Stamp Act and the Sons of Liberty, the Boston Massacre and its use in propaganda, the Tea Act and Boston Tea Party, the Intolerable Acts, and the two Continental Congresses.

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What did the Intolerable Acts of 1774 do to Massachusetts?

Who and when

What did the Stamp Act require colonists to do?

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What happened in the Boston Massacre of 1770?

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  1. 1

    What did the Stamp Act require colonists to do?

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    Buy an official stamp for printed items such as newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents and playing cards, and pay for it in scarce British coin.

  2. 2

    On what grounds did colonists deny Parliament the right to impose it?

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    They elected nobody to Parliament, so only their own assemblies could tax them; the cry was no taxation without representation.

  3. 3

    Who were the Sons of Liberty?

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    Networks of protesters, led by men such as Samuel Adams, who organised boycotts and crowd action and drove the stamp distributors into resigning.

  4. 4

    What happened in the Boston Massacre of 1770?

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    A crowd jeered at and pelted the soldiers guarding the customs house, the troops fired without orders, and five townsmen were killed.

  5. 5

    How did protest leaders use the shootings afterwards?

    Model answer

    Prints and pamphlets showed an officer ordering a volley into peaceful townspeople, and the anniversary was kept every year as a day of grievance.

  6. 6

    Why did colonists object to the Tea Act when it made tea cheaper?

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    The cheap tea still carried the duty they had refused to pay, and it handed the trade to one favoured company at the expense of colonial merchants.

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