The Changing Nature of Early America

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Chapter 4: The American Revolution

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The Changing Nature of Early America

Please read the following selections and then answer the questions in the space provided.

Peter Oliver, Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion (1781)

George Robert Twelves Hewes, A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party (1834)

“Virginia Nonimportation Resolutions” (1769)

Benjamin Franklin, Testimony Against the Stamp Act (1766)

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Look in your textbook and note the changing nature of the British Empire reflected in these documents. What were the economic arguments against continued American membership in the British Empire?

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What actions did the colonists take? Did all colonists agree with these actions?

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