What were the roots and significance of the Stamp Act controversy

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Part I: Give Me Liberty! Textbook questions

Definitions (30 points): Choose SIX (6) of the key terms listed below. Identify who or what they are and their significance. You must choose 2 terms from each column, for a total of 6.Column 1 Column 2 Column 3

A. Virtual Representation F. Ordinance of 1785 K. Impressment

B. Boston Massacre G. Northwest Ordinance L. Jay’s Treaty

C. Intolerable Acts H. gradual emancipation M. Whiskey Rebellion

D. suffrage I. Shays’s Rebellion N. XYZ Affair

E. freedom petitions J. Treaty of Greenville O. Revolution of 1800

Essay questions (60 points): Answer each of the following questions.

Chapter 5

1. What were the roots and significance of the Stamp Act controversy? What were the results?

2. How did Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence reflect the ideas put forth by philosophers such as John Locke that liberty was a natural right? Why did these documents appeal to colonists of all social classes?

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3. How did American women participate in the American Revolution? What was Republican Motherhood/Womanhood?

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4. What major compromises molded the final content of the Constitution?

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5. How did the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of 1798 threaten government stability and the future of the republic?

Part II: Primary Document Questions (60 points):

6. In Document 29, how do the Sons of Liberty explain Britain’s motivations for passing the Tea Act?

7. In Document 30, how does the language of the resolutions suggest that feelings toward Great Britain have hardened or deteriorated in the colonies?

8. In Document 34, “The Right of Free Suffrage,” what are the writer’s arguments for allowing men without property to vote?

9. In Document 35, why does Noah Webster consider an equal distribution of landed property more important to freedom than liberty of the press, trial by jury, and other rights?

10. In Document 37, “The Petition of Slaves to the Massachusetts Assembly,” how do the slaves use the language of the white revolutionaries to argue for an end to slavery?

11. In Document 40, how does James Madison argue that a large republic is more conducive to liberty than a small one?