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Explain the relationship between mercantilism, the Navigation Laws, and British efforts to create an administrative structure for their empire after 1696.
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Mercantilism caused the British to strengthen its hold on the colonies, through the use of Navigation Laws, after 1696.
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Given that the Quebec Act did not apply to the thirteen seaboard colonies, why did the act create such a stir of protest among them?
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The colonies protested the Quebec Act because it spread Roman Catholicism and because it gave Quebec more territory.
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What were the major advantages and disadvantages of the British and the colonists, respectively, as the American Revolutionary War began? What would Britain have to do to win? What would the colonists have to do to win?
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The British had the advantage of not needing to completely defeat the colonies to win, meanwhile the colonies had a defensive advantage in their own territory.
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What does the phrase point of no return mean to you? Identify that point in colonial-British relations between 1760 and 1776 and explain why you picked that event/date.
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The point of no return was when Britain passed the Quebec Act because it showed that Britain had no interests in the wellbeing of the colonies.
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Write your definition of conspiracy. Then use this definition to argue that the colonists were or were not victims of a British conspiracy to rob them of their liberties.
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The colonists were victims of a British plot to rob them of their liberties.
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Which of the following do you thing was most responsible for the conflict between Britain and its American colonies: the ineptness of parliamentary leadership, the colonies behavior, the high-handedness of King George III, the British mercantilist system and Navigation Laws, of the actions of British officials in the colonies.
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The British mercantilist system and Navigation Laws was responsible for the conflict between Britain and the colonies.
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List the following in order of their importance to colonial protest: pamphlets, boycotts, mob action, committees of correspondence.
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Colonial protest relied mostly on Committees of Correspondence rather than pamphlets, boycotts, or mob action.
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It might be said that it was the British who were revolutionaries in 1763 and the colonists who were conservatives attempting to preserve the status quo. Explain.
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The British were the revolutionaries because they wanted to be treated as Brits in Britain on the other hand the colonists were conservatives because they wanted the colonies to remain as they were: colonies.
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Create a scenario for the Period 1763-1776 to demonstrate that the American revolutionary war and colonial independence form Great Britain were not inevitable.
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The Revolutionary War could have been avoided if Britain had listened to the demands of the colonies.
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