Problem
I. What made successive British governments to seek ways to make the colonies share the cost of empire? How much had Britain borrowed to fight The Seven Years' War (also called The French and Indian War)?
II. What was the British idea of virtual representation (which the colonies disagreed with)?
III. Why was the Stamp Act of 1765 something new that the British Parliament had never done before?
IV. Although the Stamp Act was repealed in 1766 due to colonists' protests, what did the Declaratory Act (issued that same year) do?
V. Making, using and wearing what kinds of products became the symbol of American resistance to the Townshend Acts (which the Daughters of Liberty had a key role in)?
VI. On March 5, 1770 what did a Boston crowd do to some British troops that escalated to five deaths (of Boston colonists)?
VII. How much was the British East India Company Tea (originally from China) that the colonists threw in the water worth? In today's money?
VIII. What did Thomas Paine see the English constitution having the "base remains" of?
IX. In the Declaration of Independence, by substituting John Locke's word "property" with "pursuit of happiness," what had Jefferson done?
X. Although the British general Sir William Howe took Philadelphia (causing the Congress to flee) in the summer of 1777, what great victory for the American colonists happened in the fall of 1777? What did this victory mean for United States - France relations?
XI. (As shown in the Mel Gibson movie "The Patriot") Why was the American militia leader Francis Marion called "the swamp fox"? Why did the British Colonel Banastre Tarleton turn many Americans to the Patriot side?
XII. What did George Washington, seeing a great opportunity, do when Lord Charles Cornwallis' army camped at Yorktown?