- How did the outcome of the Seven Years' War change the European balance of power in North America?
- How did British and colonial views of the war and its consequences differ?
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THE ESCALATION OF THE CONFLICT
- Why was the Tea Act so provocative? How did some colonists protest its passage?
- How did the British response to these protests, and the colonial reaction, help put Britain and the colonies on the path toward war?
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- Why did some colonists see British efforts to tax the colonies as illegitimate? How did the British justify their efforts to raise revenue?
- What different groups, both in the colonies and in Great Britain, encouraged Parliament to repeal various taxes? What were their motives?
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LOOKING BACKWARD, LOOKING AHEAD
- How did the relationship between Britain and its North American colonies before 1763 differ from the relationship after 1763?
- Was war between Britain and the colonies inevitable after 1774? Why or why not?
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