A Short History of the United States Part 14

CHAPTER 11

-- 103.--_a_. Name some instances which ill.u.s.trate England's early policy toward its colonies.

_b_. Explain the later change of policy, giving reasons for it.

---- 104, 105.--_a_. What reasons did Otis give for his opposition to the writs of a.s.sistance? Why are such writs prohibited by the Const.i.tution of the United States?

_b_. What is a veto? What right had the King of Great Britain to veto a Virginia law? Which side really won in the Parson's Cause?

-- 106.--What colonies claimed land west of the Alleghany Mountains? How did the king interfere with these claims?

CHAPTER 12

---- 107-109.--_a_. What reasons were given for keeping an army in America?

_b_. What is meant by saying that Parliament was "the supreme power in the British Empire"?

_c_. Is a stamp tax a good kind of tax?

_d_. Explain carefully the colonists' objections to the Stamp Act of 1765. Do the same objections hold against the present Stamp tax?

---- 110-113.--_a_. Explain the difference between the Stamp Act Congress and the earlier Congress.

_b_. What did the Stamp Act Congress do?

_c_. Give an account of Franklin. What did Franklin say about the feeling in the colonies?

_d_. Explain carefully the causes which led to the repeal of the Stamp Act.

_e_. Can the taxing power and the legislative power be separated? What is the case to-day in your own state? In the United States?

---- 114-116.--_a_. How did Townshend try to raise money? How did this plan differ from the Stamp tax?

_b_. What was the Ma.s.sachusetts Circular Letter? Why was it important?

_c_. What was the result of the seizure of the _Liberty_?

---- 117, 118.--_a_. What were the Virginia Resolves of 1769? Why were they pa.s.sed?

_b_. What were the Non-importation agreements?

_c_. What action did the British merchants take? What results followed?

CHAPTER 13

---- 119, 120.--_a_. Why were the soldiers stationed at New York? At Boston?

_b_. Describe the trouble at Boston. Why is it called a ma.s.sacre?

---- 121-123.--_a_. What was the work of a Committee of Correspondence?

_b_. What did the British government hope to accomplish in the tea business? Why did the colonists refuse to buy the tea?

_c_. Why was the destruction of the tea at Boston necessary?

---- 124-126.--_a_. How did Parliament punish the colonists of Ma.s.sachusetts and Boston? Which of these acts was most severe? Why?

_b_. What effect did these laws have on Ma.s.sachusetts? On the other colonies?

_c_. Explain the provisions of the Quebec Act.

_d_. How would this act affect the growth of the colonies?

---- 127-129.--_a_. What was the object of the Continental Congress?

_b_. Why was the a.s.sociation so important?

_c_. How was the idea of the a.s.sociation carried out?

_d_. What government did the colonies really have?

---- 130-132.--_a_. What is a rebel? Were the Ma.s.sachusetts colonists rebels?

_b_. Describe General Gage's difficulties.

_c_. What was the result of Gage's attempt to seize the arms at Concord?

GENERAL QUESTIONS

_a_. Arrange, with dates, all the acts of the British government which offended the colonists.

_b_. Arrange, with dates, all the important steps which led toward union. Why are these steps important?

_c_. Give the chief causes of the Revolution and explain why you select these.

TOPICS FOR SPECIAL WORK

_a_. The early life of Benjamin Franklin _(Franklin's Autobiography)._

_b_. The early life of George Washington (Scudder's _Washington)._

_c_. The Boston Tea Party (Fiske's _War of Independence)._