ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY
Homework Assignment
Towards Independence: Years of Decision

Directions: Read Chapter Five and answer the following questions in complete sentences.  Your responses must be either typewritten or hand-written in black or blue ink.

1.    What impact did the Great War for Empire have on British attitudes toward the American colonies?

2.    Why did Great Britain decide in 1763, after the Great War for Empire, to station a large peacetime army in the American colonies?

3.    Why was the Stamp Act a change from previous imperial policy?

4.    What three intellectual traditions provided an ideological basis for colonial resistance to British authority after 1763?

5.    Did any support exist in Great Britain for Americans who protested the Stamp Act? If so, explain.

6.    How did the boycott movement change American society?

7.    Why did British officials, determined to maintain the Townshend duties in 1768, compromise in 1770?

8.    Compare and contrast the first and second compromise in the crisis between the colonists and the British? How did each compromise deal with the major issues dividing the two sides?

9.    What groups of colonists were drawn to the Loyalist cause and for what reasons?

10. Why did the strife between Britain and the colonies finally erupt into conflict? Which side was more responsible for the end of compromise and the beginning of civil war?