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Chapter Review

Review Questions

  1. Question

    How did the Seven Years’ War erode relations between colonists and British authorities? (“The Seven Years’ War, 1754–1763”)

  2. Question

    Why did the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act draw fierce opposition from colonists? (“The Sugar and Stamp Acts, 1763–1765”)

  3. Question

    Why did British authorities send troops to occupy Boston in the fall of 1768? (“The Townshend Acts and Economic Retaliation, 1767–1770”)

  4. Question

    Why did Parliament pass the Coercive Acts in 1774? (“The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts, 1770–1774”)

  5. Question

    How did enslaved people in the colonies react to the stirrings of revolution? (“Domestic Insurrections, 1774–1775”)