Download Chapter 4 Lesson 3 Textbook questions 1-5 Disagreements

Chapter 4 Lesson 3 Textbook questions 1-5
Disagreements with Great Britain
1. Describe the relationship between a boycott and a repeal.
To boycott means to refuse to buy a good. To repeal means to cancel a law. The colonists’ boycott of
British goods caused Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act.
2. Write a sentence that shows how these words are related: duty, smuggling.
The colonists avoided paying a duty on certain imported goods by smuggling them into the colonies.
3. Summarizing How were the ideas of colonists affected by events in the
American colonies?
The religious Great Awakening, the removal of the French threat after the French and Indian War, and
the new British taxes on the colonies made colonists value their individual rights and begin to resent
British rule.
4. Labeling What were the key events that led to growing colonial support for
independence?
Key events that fostered growing colonial support for independence included Parliament’s Coercive
Acts, King George’s attitude, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.
5. Identifying What ideas about government did Jefferson draw on in writing the
Declaration of Independence?
In writing the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson drew on Greek ideas about democracy, John
Locke’s ideas about social contracts and natural rights, Rousseau’s and Voltaire’s ideas about people’s
right to have freedom.