Chapter 7 Outline-AP US History 							Mrs. Sanchez
Chapter 7 Reading due by Wednesday, September 13, 2000
The Road to Revolution

I. The Deep Roots of Revolution
A. How did the Revolution last longer than the 8 year war?
B. How were feelings of independence nurtured?
II. The Mercantile Theory
A. What is it?
B. Where did Americans fit into the theory?
III. Mercantilist Trammels on Trade
A. Navigation Laws
B. Other Laws
C. Currency Problems
D. The Royal Veto, what was it and why did Americans resent it?
IV. The Merits of Mercantilism
A. Salutary Neglect
B. Benefits of Mercantilism
C. How did "prosperity trickle down" for American's under mercantilism?
V. The Menace of Mercantilism
A. Problems with Mercantilism that Americans faced
B. How was Mercantilism debasing to Americans?
VI. The Stamp Tax Uproar
A. British problems after the Seven Years' War
B. Resented legislation
1. Sugar Act
2. Quartering Act of 1765
3. Stamp Tax
C. Why did the English feel the taxes were just?
D. Why did the American's resent the taxes?
E. What distinction existed between taxation and legislation in American minds?
F. What is virtual representation? And the American reaction.
VII. Parliament forced to Repeal the Stamp Act
A. Colonial protest, what form did it take?
B. Stamp Act Congress...Facts
C. Why did Parliament repeal the Stamp Act?
D. Declaratory Act 
VIII. The Townshend Tea Tax and the Boston "Massacre"
A. Townshend act what did it include?
B. Why did the colonist rebel against this tax?
C. Problems with the British soldiers
D. March 5, 1770-What happened...?
1. Crispus Attucks



IX. The Seditious Committees of Correspondence
A. Problems faced in Britain
B. Who was Sam Adams...What did he do?
C. Purpose of the Committees
X. Tea Parties at Boston and Elsewhere
A. British East India Company...Why viewed as an ogre?
B. How did the British cause problems?
C. What happened December 16, 1773?
D. What was the reaction?
XI. Parliament Passes the "Intolerable Acts"
A. What were the Intolerable Acts or Repressive Acts
B. What was their purpose?
C. Why was the Quebec act hated?
XII. The Continental Congress and Bloodshed
A. How did Americans react to the Intolerable Acts?
B. The First continental congress
1. What was its purpose
2. When did it meet
3. Who was there
4. What did it accomplish
C. What happened at Lexington and Concord?
XIII. Imperial Strength and Weakness
A. British Strengths Itemized
B. British Weakness Itemized
XIV. American Pluses and Minuses
A. American Strengths
B. American Weaknesses
XV. A Thin Line of Heroes
A. Valley Forge what happened?
B. Baron Von Steuben
C. African Americans in the War
D. Profiteers
E. Minority Movement?