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Chapter 4 Reading, Exercises of United States History

Short answer questions from chapter 4.

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APAH Reading Guide Name: ______________________________________ Chapter 4 Directions: Read pages 90 – 113 and answer the following questions using many details and examples from the text.

  1. How did the relationship between king and Parliament change during the early eighteenth century? What role did the prime minister play in this change?
  2. How were the American colonies administered by Britain, from Britain, during this period? What was the effect of this policy?
  3. How was England’s hold on the colonies weakened between 1700 and 1775? What role did colonial assemblies play in the weakening?
  4. What factors helped promote colonial unity during this period?
  5. What was the Albany Plan, and what did it reveal about colonial unity?
  6. To what areas of North America had the French laid claim by 1750?
  7. What caused the Great War for the Empire, and why is it called by that name?
  1. What were the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1763?
  2. What dilemma faced London policymakers at the end of the Great War for the Empire?
  3. What initial policy changes occurred when George III ascended the throne, and what were the king’s motives in making these changes?
  4. What was it about post-­‐1763 policy that would cause colonists in every section to see the disadvantages rather than the advantages of being part of the British Empire?
  5. Why did the Stamp Act so antagonize the American colonists?
  6. Who led the protests in Virginia over the Stamp Act? What reasons, other than those stated in the resolutions proposed, contributed to this action? What was the effect of the protests, and what were the results?
  7. What was England’s response to the American protests over the Stamp Act? How did the taxation by Townshend attempt to anticipate American attacks on future acts?
  8. How did the policies of Lord North differ from those of his predecessors? In what ways were they alike?
  1. What were the circumstances that led to the fighting at Lexington and Concord?
  2. How did the French and Indian War sow the seeds of discontent?
  3. How did Britain’s “neglect” of the colonies gradually lead to independence?
  4. How did internal divisions affect Americans during the Revolutionary period?
  5. Support or refute the following statement and justify your answer. “Home rule was not something new and different that the colonists were striving to attain. It was something old and familiar that they desired to keep.
  6. How did the Colonists and British differ in their interpretation of representation?
  7. Historical Causation : Explain the series of crises from the Sugar Act to the Coercive Acts. How did each crisis change colonial attitudes toward Great Britain?
  1. Historical Causation : How did an American identity develop as a result of salutary neglect? In your answer consider legislative assemblies, foreign trade, and the spread of religion.

  2. Periodization : How did the Proclamation of 1763 signal the end of one period in British colonial history in North America and the beginning of another?

  3. From the outset Massachusetts was the leader of the anti-­‐British protest studied in this chapter. Why? What factors in the economic political and intellectual climate of that colony made it such a hotbed of revolution? What part did Puritanism play in shaping this climate?