The Road to the Revolution

1) When do many argue that the American Revolution began?
2) What were the factors that separated the colonists from England?
3) What was mercantilism?  Why was it established?
4) Under mercantilism, how did the average American compare with the average Englishman?
5) Why did Americans resent the mercantile system?
6) What was "salutary neglect?" What did it end?
7) Why did the British pass the Stamp Act?
8) What was American reaction to the Stamp and Sugar Acts?
9) What was the "Association"?
10) What was the Declaratory Act?
11) What is meant by "virtual representation"?
12) Where were the Townsend Acts?
13) What caused the Boston Massacre?
14) What were the committees of correspondence?
15) How did Parliament think they had avoided "no taxation without representation" by passing the Tea Act?
16) How was the Boston Tea Party a reaction to the Tea Act?
17) What did the British do in response to the Boston Tea Party?
18) What were the Intolerable Acts? Why were they so unpopular?
19) Why did the First Continental Congress meet?  What did they accomplish?
20) What advantages/disadvantages did each side possess as the War for Independence began?
21) What percentage of Americans supported total independence?
22) What role did economics play in causing the American Revolution?