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Which of the following best describes the function of the committees of correspondence?

A) They provided legal counsel to patriots whose rights had been abridged by British authorities.
B) They provided daily reports on the movement of British troops.
C) They assumed the primary responsibility of writing anti-British essays for colonial newspapers.
D) They provided a communications network designed to involve more colonists in the resistance movement by widening the movement's geographic scope.

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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Instructions: _∙ Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the _∙ item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -the Tea Act

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Discuss the actions taken by Boston's colonists in their efforts to prevent implementation of the Stamp Act. What were the consequences of their actions?

Instructions: _∙ Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the _∙ item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -Neolin and Chief Pontiac

Instructions: _∙ Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the _∙ item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -public rituals of resistance

Instructions: _∙ Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the _∙ item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -Andrew Oliver

Well-to-do women helped enlist people's support for the resistance movement by

Explain the constitutional arguments presented against the Sugar and Stamp Acts by James Otis in his 1764 pamphlet The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved. What constitutional arguments were presented in subsequent pamphlets between 1764 and the Tea Act's passage in 1773? How did these arguments differ from Otis's? Why were they different?

The primary reason for Parliament's passage of the Stamp Act was to

Parliament's intent in passing the Coercive Acts was to

In the immediate aftermath of the passage of the Coercive and Quebec Acts, the colonies

Instructions: _∙ Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the _∙ item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -the Liberty riot

Instructions: _∙ Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the _∙ item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -the Paxton Boys

Which of the following is true of the Boston Massacre?

Instructions: _∙ Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the _∙ item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -the Albany Congress

As a result of the passage of the Tea Act,

Which of the following statements is most consistent with the concept of representative government held by colonial Americans in 1763?

Instructions: _∙ Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the _∙ item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item? -The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved

Defend the following statement: "Britain's attempts to tighten the reins of government and raise revenues from the colonies in the 1760s and early 1770s convinced many Americans that the Real Whigs' reasoning applied to their circumstances. They began to interpret British measures in light of the Real Whigs' warnings and to see evil designs behind the actions of Grenville and his successors."

Lord North convinced Parliament to repeal the Townshend duties, except the tax on tea, because of his conviction that