Overview
Part1
Please read and complete the assignment in the second attachment. In your timeline entries it is important that you not only describe the laws/events assigned, but also the impact that they had/the colonists' reactions to them.
Please create a time line for the events of the 1760s and 1770s that led to the American
Revolution. Below, you will find a list of events/acts that should be included. You time line should include not only a chronological illustration of these events, but also a short description of the event/act, the colonists’ response, and its impact.
Your timeline may also be presented in a Power Point Presentation.
The French and Indian War
Proclamation Line of 1763
The Sugar Act The Stamp Act The Quartering Act The Declaratory Act The Townshend Revenue Act/Duties The Boston Massacre The Tea Act The Boston Tea Party The Coercive/Intolerable Acts The First Continental Congress
EXAMPLE BELOW
Part2
The other activities for the week and the various reading materials that you have examined have all offered differing perspectives on the cause of the American Revolution. Based on all of these sources, please offer your thoughts on the following question.
What do you think were the main causes that led the majority of American colonists to reject the rule of England and fight to form their own independent nation? Try to focus your opinion on no more than two or three primary causes and offer evidence to support your position.
PART3 (HEWES PDF)
The assigned reading "George Hewes' Memoir," which I have attached here, please offer your thoughts on the following questions:
- What does Hewes' interaction with John Malcom (British Customs Official) tell us about the nature of day to day tensions between the colonists and English officials?
- In what ways might these sort of daily interactions/tensions served as a cause of the American Revolution
- PART 4 (CHAPTER 5PDF)
- How did Great Britain’s victory in the French and Indian War create tension/conflict in the
- colonies? 126-130
2. Why did the colonies react so negatively to the Stamp Act? What forms of protest did the
colonists adopt? 130-136
3. How and why did the colonies oppose the Townshend Duties? How did Britain’s decision to send
troops to Boston worsen the situation? 136-143
4. What were the Coercive/Intolerable Acts, and how did the colonies respond? 143-150
5. Big Picture Question (whole chapter): Did the colonies respond to the changes in Imperial
governance reasonably/fairly? Who was to blame for the conflict between the colonies and
Great Britain? - PART 4 (CHAPTER 5PDF)
- How did Great Britain’s victory in the French and Indian War create tension/conflict in the colonies? 126-130
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2. Why did the colonies react so negatively to the Stamp Act? What forms
of protest did the
colonists adopt? 130-136
3. How and why did the colonies oppose the Townshend Duties? How did Britain’s decision to send
troops to Boston worsen the situation? 136-143
4. What were the Coercive/Intolerable Acts, and how did the colonies respond? 143-150
5. Big Picture Question (whole chapter): Did the colonies respond to the changes in Imperial
governance reasonably/fairly? Who was to blame for the conflict between the colonies and
Great Britain?