Exam 4: The Empire in Transition Key

Parliament and the colonial legislatures did not always see eye to eye,but at least they shared a similar understanding about the nature of representative government.

When George III assumed the throne of England,he

The Sugar Act of 1764 was designed to

In general,the colonists regarded the political burden of the post-1763 imperial program to be worse than the economic burden.

Why was British rule in the colonies decentralized? What groups benefited from this,and how?

By the 1750s,American colonial assemblies

In their competition for the allegiance of native tribes,the English could offer more and better goods than the French.

Trace the course and nature of colonial objections to British policies between 1763 and 1775.

The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713

of the French and Indian War,

The Boston Massacre was the British response to the Boston Tea Party.

Under the English constitution during the eighteenth century,

The Tea Act of 1773

Following the Seven Years' War,the British government faced huge problems of imperial organization but had ample funds to deal with those problems.

In the 1760s,"country Whigs" were English colonists who

In 1775,the Conciliatory Propositions

At the time of the Battles of Lexington and Concord,General Thomas Gage,the commander of the British garrison in Boston,

Through the first half of the eighteenth century,the Iroquois Confederacy formed agreements and traded with

The Stamp Act was interpreted by the colonies as a direct attempt by Parliament to raise revenues without the consent of the colonial legislatures.

The colonial boycott of tea in 1773