Bailey 7 Reading Guide
In what way can the American Colonies be considered revolutionary since the time of their discovery?
What is republicanism?
Who were the radical Whigs?
Summarize the theory of mercantilism.
Who is called the “father of modern economics?” What was his eponymous work (not in the text)?
Examine the cartoon on page 124. Based on this drawing, with what side did the artists sympathize? Defend your answer.
Summarize British steps to enforce mercantilism.
What were “enumerated” products and how would the Americans have felt about enumeration?
How did mercantilism affect the money supply in America?
Why does paper money tend to depreciate?
How did John Hancock make his fortune?
What growing American sentiment is reflected by Ben Franklin’s poem on page 125?
What proportion of Britain’s debt in 1763 was incurred defending the American colonies? How was that debt incurred?
What steps to raise funds did PM George Grenville take?
Enforcement of Navigation Acts
Sugar Act of 1764
Quartering Act of 1765
Stamp Act of 1765
How did the British and the Americans feel about Grenville’s steps?
Why would the Sugar Act and Stamp Acts be enforced by admiralty courts rather than local juries?
What distinction did Americans draw between legislation and taxation?
Explain Grenville’s theory of virtual representation and Americans’ reaction.
What was the Stamp Act Congress and what did it do?
What were non-importation agreements? Why were they effective?
Who were the “Sons and Daughters of Liberty?” Do you approve of their actions?
What does “nullify” mean? Use a dictionary.
Why was the Stamp Act repealed (multiple causation)?
What was the Declaratory Act and what was its purpose?
Who was Charles Townshend?
How were the Townshend Acts legally different from the Stamp Act?
How did the Townshend Acts threaten the power of the purse?
How did Townshend’s Parliament punish New York for resisting the Quartering Act?
Why was colonial nonimportation less effective against the Townshend Acts?
What is the dictionary definition of “massacre?” Does that definition fit the Boston Massacre?
Who defended the redcoats after the Boston Massacre? (Possible AP point…)
Why did Lord North abandon the Townshend Acts?
What symbolic tax was retained?
Who was Samuel Adams?
What were the Committees of Correspondence? What did they evolve into?
Why did the British government grant the British East India Company a monopoly?
What was the colonial reaction?
Why was Thomas Hutchinson so infuriating to the radicals?
How did Americans react to the Tea Party?
What was included in the Intolerable Acts? (Use Amsco to supplement Bailey)
What was the Quebec Act? How did Americans react? Why?
Sketch (freehand! Look closely at the map!) the geographic changes wrought by the Quebec Act.
Describe the first days of the Continental Congress. Include key figures.
What was the Association?
What happened at Lexington and Concord?
On a separate sheet of paper, make a chart of American and British strengths and weaknesses.
Other than the sheer cost of manufactured goods, what political reasons might be responsible for the general lack of firearms in the colony? (I’ll have you for breakfast if you rebel against this question)
Who was Baron von Steuben?
What role(s) did African-Americans play in the revolution?
What was the “Whig view of history?”
To what cause did Beer, Andrews, and Gibson attribute the revolution?
Who said the class tensions were at the root of the revolution? (Group)
How did Jameson build on this theory? What was his book?
To what did Edmund S. Morgan attribute the revolution?
What historian would mirror Mr. Tueting’s emphasis on the ideological and psychological factors of the revolution?
What historian’s “Urban crucible” argued that the roots of the revolution could be found in the boisterous sea of liberty created in a city environment?
How do the neoprogressives attempt to resolve all these interpretations?