Review Questions

1. How did the Seven Years’ War erode relations between colonists and British authorities?
2. Why did the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act draw fierce opposition from colonists?
3. Why did British authorities send troops to occupy Boston in the fall of 1768?
4. Why did Parliament pass the Coercive Acts in 1774?
5. How did enslaved people in the colonies react to the stirrings of revolution?