Chapter 5: Severing the Bonds of Empire 1754-1774
ID's
Nightly
Readings
Pgs.
107‐112
Pgs.
112‐120
Pgs.
120‐128
Albany Congress 1754
Albany Plan of Union
French & Indian War/ Seven-Year War 1756-63
Fort Duquesne
Treaty of Paris 1763
Proclamation of 1763
George Grenville 1763
Virtual Representation
Real Whigs
Sugar & Currency Acts (Revenue Acts) 1764
Stamp Act 1765
James Otis Jr.
Patrick Henry
Virginia Stamp Act Resolves
Loyal Nine
Anti-Stamp Demonstrations
Sons of Liberty
Stamp Act Congress 1765-66
Non-importation
Repeal & Declaratory Act 1766
Townshend Acts 1767
Townshend Duties 1767 (Repealed 1770)
John Dickinson
Letters from A Pennsylvania Farmer
Rituals of Resistance
Daughters of Liberty
Boston Massacre 1770
Samuel Adams
Committees of Correspondence
Tea Act 1773
Boston Tea Party 1773
Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) 1774
Quebec Act
QUESTIONS
1. Why was the end of the Seven Year's War such an important turning point?
How was the relationship between colonists and Native Americans changed? ... with the
British government?
2. How did differing theories of democratic representation affect the relationship between
the English colonies and the British government?
3. Was the Stamp Act crisis the inevitable result of Britain's New Imperial Policy and of
the differences in political theories between the British government and its American
subjects?
4. Why were Americans so vehemently opposed to the Townshend duties?
5. What evidence would support John Adams' famous observation that there was a
"revolution... in the Minds of the people" between 1760 and 1775? At what point do you
think this part of the Revolution was complete?