The Boston Tea Party was held to
Resolve the impasse of what to do about the tea ships
Colonists objected to monies from the Revenue Acts of 1767 being used to pay the salaries of royal officials in America because they
Believed colonial assemblies should pay those salaries as a means of exerting control over these administrators.
The Sons of Liberty were
Organized to curb radicalism by advancing more moderate forms of protest.
That Ethan Allen's campaign to take Fort Ticonderoga angered the New York delegation to the Second Constitutional Convention shows that
The colonists did not see themselves as Americans as much as citizens of their respective colonies.
The Plan of Union proposed by the Albany Conference was
Rejected by the colonial assemblies because they were interested in preserving their individual prerogatives.
In response to the Proclamation of 1763,
Colonists ignored British law and pushed west across the Appalachians.
The colony-wide conventions which elected delegates to the Second Continental Convention were extra-legal bodies because
There was no provision for such organizations in the colonial governments.
British response to colonial violations of the Proclamation of 1763 shows that they were
Unwilling to use force to prevent colonial expansion across the mountains.
Members of the Second Continental Congress
Were elected by colony-wide conventions.
The Indian peoples of the Ohio River valley
Hoped for a stalemate in the Seven Years' War.
The map of the effects of the Quebec Act shows that the Americans were most concerned about
The naming of the Ohio River as the border of Quebec.
The Tea Act of 1773
Was an effort to save the British East India Company from bankruptcy.
Canadians rejected the overtures of the Second Continental Congress suggesting they unite against the British because Canadians
Feared Americans, their traditional enemies, because of America's aggressive expansionism.
The failure of the Albany Conference to bring greater unity to the colonies indicates
The unwillingness of individual colonies to relinquish any of their powers.
The main way the colonists protested the Townshend Revenues Acts was through
Nonimportation and nonconsumption.
Delegates to the First Continental Congress
Engaged in late-night tavern hopping to get to know each other better.
Indians in the Ohio River Valley were angered by
The British decision to abandon the practice of giving gifts.
In Common Sense, the Englishman Thomas Paine argued
The foundation of the British system was inappropriate for America.
The repeal of the Stamp Act indicated that the British were
Willing to compromise with the colonists.
Prior to the Zenger Case of 1735, most colonial newspapers
Advocated the government's position.
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