Name: ______Date: ______Period: _____

Road to Revolution: Part 2

Pages: 132-137

The Townshend Tea Tax and the Boston “Massacre”: pages 132-133

  1. Which five items did the Townshend Acts place a tax on?

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2. ______

3. ______

4. ______

5. ______

  1. Why were colonists especially resentful of the Townshend Acts?______

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  1. Why did colonists take the Townshend Act less seriously than the Stamp Act?______

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  1. What was the result of American opposition to the Townshend Acts?______

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  1. Write your definition of the word massacre. Does the description of the Boston Massacre in your textbook fit your definition? Why or why not?

Definition: ______

Description a match to your definition: YES/NO (circle or highlight answer)

Why or why not? ______

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The Seditious Committees of Correspondence: pages 133-135

  1. Why was the tax on tea retained when the Townshend Acts were repealed?

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  1. What was the purpose of the Committees of Correspondence?______

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  1. Which colony led the way by creating the first inter-colonial committees of correspondence?

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Tea Brewing in Boston: pages 135-136

  1. How did the British East India Company’s monopoly of the American tea business backfire?

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  1. In what ways did the colonists protest the tea tax? ______

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  1. What were the varied colonial reactions to the Boston Tea Party?______

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Parliament Passes the “Intolerable Acts”: pages 136-137

  1. What do you think was the most drastic measure of the Intolerable Acts? Why?

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  1. The Quebec Acts was especially unpopular in the colonies because it did what three things?

1. ______

2. ______

3. ______

  1. The passage of the Quebec Act aroused intense American fears because it (highlight the correct answer)
  1. Put French language on an equal standing with English throughout the colonies.
  2. Involved stationing British troops throughout the colonies.
  3. Seemed likely to stir up ethnic divisions within the thirteen colonies south of Canada.
  4. Threatened to make Canada the dominant British colony in North America.
  5. Extended Catholic jurisdiction and a non-jury judicial system into the English-speaking Ohio territory.

Interpreting Historical Illustrations

Contemporary illustrations of historical events may not only give us information about those events but tell us something about the attitude and intention of those who made the illustrations. The caption to the engraving of the Boston Massacre by Paul Revere on page 133 observes that it is “both art and propaganda.” Drawing on the account of the massacre in the text enables you to see the ways in which Revere’s engraving combines factual information with a political point of view. Answer the following questions.

  1. What parts of the encounter between the British redcoats and the colonists does the engraving entirely leave out? ______

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  1. The text says that the British troops fired “without orders.” How does the engraving suggest the opposite? ______

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  1. How does Revere’s presentation of the colonial victims seem especially designed to inflame the feelings of the viewer? ______

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