AP US History Name ________________________________

Path To Revolution Worksheet Date ______________ Period ____________

1763 -1776

Fill in the following chart by explaining the rational for each British action and the rational for each Colonial reaction.
(Why did Britain do it? Why did the colonies react they way they did?)

British Action Rational for British Action Colonial Reaction Rational for Colonial Action
Proclamation of Resentment and
1763 failure to comply

Sugar Act Boston

experimented
with boycotts

Currency Act Continuing

resentment

Stamp Act Boycotts,

Violence,
Petitions
Repeal of the Celebration or
Stamp Act & repeal, ignoring
Passage of the of Declaratory
Declaratory Act Act

Townshend Boycotts,
Duties Petitions, Harsh
Newspaper
Articles

Tea Act Boycott, Boston

Tea Party,
Protest

Quartering Act Protest in

1774 Assemblies

Coercive / Boycott, meeting

“Intolerable Acts” of the First
Continental
Congress

Lexington and Paine’s presented

Concord “Common Sense”